xhonzi said:

I'm just saying that if I said:

Sadly I paid money for work before finding out he was a gay.

That that would come across as bigotry, would it not?

The above example would mean book buyer X was against all gay people and because author Z has been exposed as homosexual he doesn't want to purchase his work.

I don't want to buy a specific author's work (any more) because of a specific author's verified bigotry towards all gays, a group I belong to (I would feel the same if he said similar things about blacks, Jews or women, groups I don't belong to but it seems even more bizarre that I seem to be expected by you to go out of my way and buy into the bigotry directed right at my partner, a number of my friends and myself).

One is an act of prejudice directed to a whole group the other is an act of judgement towards one person based on what he has gone on record stating to be his views.

It's the opposite of bigotry. I have read what the chap has to say for himself and come to a conclusion based on observation. He has come to a conclusion and is twisting some of his observations to conform with that prejudice.

I have attempted to steer this back to the subject of books but I am reading this thread and some of the 'out there' ideas within and so commenting on those pieces of text is on topic.... from a certain point of view.