[JimSEA]

Tolerance in general, and religious tolerance in particular, is a fine and good thing only if it is a two way street. With Islam, this is clearly not the case.

[tell me]

Can our children go back to singing Christmas songs at their “Winter Wonderland” shows in school now, in the name of religious tolerance?

[maxsand]

...Madison’s experience at Princeton and his struggle against persecution of Baptists in Virginia had convinced him that “toleration” was an invidious concept. It was, as Thomas Paine later put it, “not the opposite of intolerance, but...the counterfeit of it. Both are despotism. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, the other of granting it.”
Madison therefore sought to have the noxious word stricken from the declaration and to prepare the way for complete liberty of conscience and separation of church and state in Virginia...