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Printed from https://writing.com/main/books/entry_id/845665-Tolerance
Rated: 13+ · Book · Cultural · #1437803
I've maxed out. Closed this blog.
#845665 added April 3, 2015 at 12:12am
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Tolerance
         The daily news is depressing. It seems as though we are living in the most intolerant time in my lifetime. With all of our emphasis on cultural diversity and political correctness, we are meaner than ever and hate more than ever.

         If you believe the Ten Commandments, you are politically incorrect. If you do business with gays with no problem, but you say you don't believe in the sanctity of gay marriage, then your business is threatened with fire and vandalism, and your family has to go into hiding for safety reasons. If you eat or sell pork products, you are violating the rights of people who want to believe that pigs and pork products don't exist. If your church or synagogue, which have voluntary attendance,  teaches that it is wrong to live with someone to whom you are not married, you are offending people who don't believe the same way.

         We can twist the law and the truth to mean anything we want and use it to attack anyone with whom we do not agree. We want to dictate to every business owner and organization what they practice and how they operate. Whatever happened to "live and let live"? That's a concept of the past, like freedom of speech apparently. If it's vile and disgusting, no one objects. TV humor just gets raunchier every year, and body parts are discussed in prime time in demeaning and crude ways. "Tolerate me! But I don't have to tolerate you!" That seems to be the words many people live by.

         Those of us who feel offended by the whiners, complainers, and litigators and all their anger feel powerless to do anything. But we shouldn't. I believe there are a lot of people who practice democracy and individual freedom every day, but they don't stand up for their beliefs when challenged. They don't point to themselves as examples of tolerance for contrast. We need to find our backbone, and stand up for our neighbors and personal freedom.

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