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I'm not surprised. "Tolerance" is a code word. It doesn't mean that you have to merely tolerate "alternative lifestyles," it is part of the left's agenda to get people to actually accept it. The left can be as closeminded and intolerant as it wants to be, all in the name of tolerance.
How many of the elected officials in your city are openly gay? State? Federal?
In your favorite general-interest magazines, how many articles are written by women? How many are about women/people of color/lesbian and gay people?
Do gay teenagers socialize openly and safely at local school-wide events?
Does your local newsstand carry lesbian and gay magazines?
Sexuality discussions of any sort, homo or hetero, are not appropriate for young children. IMHO.
Guess who they suckered into supporting their cause? Bob Dole and Orrin Hatch. Now, I don't know if they thoroughly checked it out or not, but shame on them either way.
I constantly try to ensure that my daughter knows the difference between tolerance and acceptance. See the South Park Lemmiwinks episode for a good take on it. (No, my daughter does not watch South Park...)
I don't want my kid taught to tolerate perversion anyway. He should be kindly intolerant. Sometimes the kind is impossible and you have to settle for calmly intolerant. Standing up for what is right is a vital character quality. These people are teaching kids to be victims. They have a right to stand up for their own values.
Homophobia, schmomophobia...The problem isn't homophobics, it's HETEROPHOBICS and their refusal to acknowledge their problem. When I read an intelligent discussion of THAT quandry, I'll pay attention, and I will encourage all of the young people in my influence to do the same.
PING! It is an absolute atrocity that we must fight tooth and nail to keep our kids innocent. But it is a fight I am more than willing to fight!
It's ok to say the tolerance pledge but not the Pledge of Allegiance.
When these people say "tolerance" what they really mean is advocacy.
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." - Indigo Montoya, The Princess Bride
Yet another reason I am glad I dumped cable.....
Go figure! Good observation.
Me too.
If you look at the word "tolerance" it just means to put up with, not to accept or agree. I tolerate homosexuals by not being hateful or harmful, but I do not accept or agree. If you think that "tolerance" requires respect for homosexuality itself then I'm not tolerant. The left uses tolerance to mean acceptance though.
Ay-yi-yi. Their now masking homosexuality as apart of a civil-rights movement. Meaning, they treat it like racism to be againt homosexuals.
Tolerance now means indoctrination.
You're absolutely right. By adopting the language and lumping "sexuality" in with race, religion, etc. in a "tolerance pledge," the left is continuing its agenda of treating homosexuality like any other characteristic and as though it's the same as skin color.
What problem are you referring to?
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