Tolerance 101

Tolerance Requires Judgment (A brief excerpt from an essay by Greg Koukl at Stand to Reason)

Notice that one can't tolerate someone unless he disagrees with him. We don't "tolerate" people who share our views. They're on our side. There's nothing to put up with. Tolerance is reserved for those we think are wrong.
This essential element of tolerance--disagreement--has been completely lost in the modern distortion of the concept. Nowadays, if you think someone is wrong, you're called intolerant.
This presents us with a very curious problem. Judging someone wrong makes one intolerant, yet one must first think another is wrong in order to be tolerant. It's a "Catch-22." According to this approach, true tolerance is impossible.

This type of reasoning is beyond the grasp of liberals. If I believe that homosexuality is not a natural state of being and a sin within God's creation, but I accept that they are fellow human beings that deserve to be judged on the content of their character and not on their sexual orientation---I am being tolerant.

Alas, that is not how homosexual activists view it. If I don't outright accept the normality of homosexuality and get on board their train, then I'm intolerant and homophobic. Speaking of which, I hate that term. I don't have any abnormal fear of homosexuals. I do admit to having a natural disgust and aversion to the lifestyle. I don't know how they can consider it normal when nature has obviously shown that male/female relations are the norm.

Anyway, liberals have totally skewed the concept of tolerance to use as a weapon against all those who disagree with them; they prefer demonization over logic and reason. I will accept and tolerate a homosexuals right to live their lives according to the laws and societal norms that we all live under. I will not tolerate the "homosexual community" dictating to the vast majority, i.e. heterosexuals, that they should have special priveliges and rights, that they should be immune to the consequences and hardships that their choice of lifestyles brings upon them (AID's as a primary example), and in particular that they should have access within our school systems to go in and indoctrinate our children into believing that it's normal and that anyone who doesn't think so is some hate-filled, intolerant, homophobe.