"...that's how I was raised."

Gay marriage row at Miss USA show

So you were raised an ignorant, moronic homophobe. You had no ability to learn and form you own opinions. It cost you first place in a pointless beauty contest. Good. You should reward morons.

That is the kind of bullshit excuse people use for their homophobic and racist believes. It's how I was brought up. It was a different time. All the same crap the seems to point to the fact the people are incapable of looking beyond what they have been told, learning things like facts and then forming their own individual opinions based on these. No, it's not any kind of excuse at all. Everybody has the ability to learn and grow as people. To change their minds and perspectives. However, some people simply choose not to. Why? Do they enjoy blinding hating people based on prejudice? Or are these the kind of people who think that you can prove anything with facts? It baffles me as to why people think like that.