Would you be friends with someone who was against gay marriage? What if they were against interracial marriage? If you said no to one and not the other, why?

NO.

I don’t befriend bigots. Bigotry is unfriendly. Therefore, bigots are lousy friendship material.

And before someone says or you say “But isn’t your intolerance of bigotry a form of bigotry?”, please stop taking your falsely equivalent talking points from conservatives. Befriending horrible people with the goal of showing them the error of their ways only works if those people are truly invested in changing. I, as one of the obvious targets of a bigot’s intolerance, am in danger by putting myself in that situation. My investment and risk in that scenario is far greater than their tepid “consideration” of what they would consider my “questionable” humanity. And they could still make the conclusion that their bigotry is correct, so why would I want to waste my precious time for negligible results?

If you want to hold their hands and guide them toward being better human beings, go for it. I just hope they don’t fake smile in your general direction while chopping your hands off in the process.