I believe those are the words of George Washington, who recognized that our democracy would not survive on tolerance only, that we needed liberty. We cannot tolerate the intolerant, which appears on a shallow level to be an oxymoron, but on a deeper level is a fundamental and self-evident truth. Fear is a mind-killer. Fear paralyzes progress and sometimes even the quest for survival. We cannot allow the intolerant to spread their bigotry and fear, we must, if we value our democracy, challenge the intolerant and the fear mongering wherever it starts.
The United States of America is not, and never has been a theocracy. We cannot allow that to happen. Faith is not faith if it is the only choice. For people to be free to have faith, they also need to be free to have no faith or a different faith. Without that freedom, it is not faith at all.
Huge hat tip to The Group News Blog (in honor of the amazing Steve Gilliard). Very interesting reading on a regular basis.
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As usual with people with pretensions, you (and your source) confuse “tolerance” with “acceptance.”
The Founders also recognized the distinction between “liberty” and “license,” something else the radical homosexual lobby attempts to confuse.
As usual, Mr Young, you are wrong. Neither I nor the writers at the Group News blog are confused in the slightest between those terms. There is no radical homosexual lobby, just a bunch of Americans who are tired of discrimination and hatred.
Frankly, you and your tired arguments are not welcome here. Just go away.
I want to be clear to any rational, reasonable, conservative readers who stumble into my blog; your rational, reasonable arguments are welcome here. I would enjoy a good debate from opposing points of view – I am singling Mr Young out for censure because of his record for petulant whining and off-topic rambling. I am NOT trying to shutdown reasoned discourse and public argument.
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