Intolerance and education in Ireland

Intolerance is a terrible thing. In fact I have no time for people who are intolerant. String 'em up, I say. So I thought it would be interesting to see what are (some) of the characteristics of people who are intolerant. The instrument I use is a question in the European Social Survey which asks whether the respondent thinks "gays & lesbians should be free to live their life as they wish". Its a 5 category answer and I define a dummy which is 1 for the top 2 categories ("agree strongly" or "agree"), 0 otherwise. About 75% are tolerant by this criterion, using the Irish data. So we are a pretty tolerant bunch, according to ourselves anyway.
Below I have a simple model. The coefficients are marginal effects. So what the results show is that each additional year of education is associated with about a 7% higher probability of being tolerant (remember 7% relative to 75%). If you are reading this you are probably fairly educated so this will conform with your prior view (i.e. your prejudice): educated people are nice people. Older people are less tolerant towards gays. Well what do you expect? Likewise people who describe themselves as religious. Women are the good guys, being much more (20%) tolerant than men.
What is curious is that parental education has the opposite effect to one's own education, the more educated your father was the less tolerant you are towards gays. Parental education is a big, perhaps the biggest, determinant, of one's socio-economic status. Its an interesting paradox: answers please on a post-card...

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tolerant towards gays
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years education 0.0681***
(4.94)

age -0.00532*
(2.22)

woman 0.210**
(2.96)

very religious -0.311***
(4.12)

father's education -0.0823**
(2.61)

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N 1631
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Absolute t statistics in parentheses
* p<0.05,>