The ban on gays in the military had to do, as Norman Schwarzkopf said, with homosexuality’s incompatibility with close order drill and dozens of other situations unique to the military. As it turned out, ‘we just want to serve’ was the usual anodyne thin end of the wedge and now we see Pacific naval bases having Drag Night and so forth.
Its unfortunate its come to that because in my view, we should accept other people as they are. That’s only human and humane to do.
I never thought it meant we should accept their values and their lifestyle. I can’t see myself condoning a sin. For me it does mean accepting gay people as created in the image of God who should be treated decently.
Leftists will interpret my view of toleration as consenting to the notion all values and lifestyles are equal. Not at all - I simply believe that in a free society we have to get along with people who happen to live differently from us.
Tolerance does not mean we have to agree with them.