How are religious people not tolerant of your friend? What Gingee said is the truth. He has as much right to live as a homosexual as a person to believe homosexuality is a sin based on religious teachings. Now a religious person doesn't have the right to force a person not to be a homosexual and a a homosexual doesn't have a right to force a religious person to believe his or her behavior is acceptable. And why are we knocking Christians? Bugger some guy in a Muslim country and see what they do to you.