Full Definition of bigot :a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudicesespecially : one who regards or treats the members of a group (such as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance. How do you find degeneracy? So the degeneracy...
As a 'public evangelical' I have frequently found myself correcting journalists and others when they have mistakenly equated evangelicals with 'evangelists' or 'fundamentalists', or when they have more crassly used 'evangelical' as a synonym for 'bigot'. No doubt we need to reflect on why ...