We are constantly bombarded with the exhortation to be tolerant of other cultures, beliefs, and lifestyles by liberal-controlled media outlets such as the mainstream news, movies, and television programs.  An abbreviated, paraphrased definition of tolerance according to Webster’s Dictionary would be “to put up with that which one dislikes and finds objectionable and wrong.”  If we accept Webster’s definition in relation to said exhortations by the left, then one would correctly assume that we are to simply co-exist alongside of that which we find objectionable.

Tolerance of the Right

On April 30th, 1997 Ellen DeGeneres “came out of the closet” and admitted she was a lesbian on her sitcom Ellen.  Immediately, liberals praised her action as a step forward for gays and lesbians; and, of course, gay and lesbian groups were thrilled beyond belief.  You would have thought they had just eaten their first piece of pepperoni pizza.  Liberals are, after all, the most compassionate and tolerant of all people, regardless of who they are; and gay rights groups will gladly accept any step forward toward what they feel is the right direction for their cause.

Bob Harper of The Biggest Loser also admitted to being a homosexual in November 2013.  Again, as with the Ellen DeGeneres admission, there was widespread liberal excitement over Harper’s statement.  It was seen as yet another step in the right direction of “tolerance” for the gay community,

Generally speaking, Christians are opposed to homosexuality because of various verses in the Bible that state such behavior is wrong in the eyes of the Judeao-Christian God YAWEH.  Leviticus 18:22, for example, states, “You shall not lie with a male as ones lies with a female; it is an abomination.”  There are other similar verses in the Bible that state pretty much the same thing.

So, it is common to hear Christians speak out against homosexuality.  They not only have a right to believe that this behavior is wrong; but, according to the first amendment of the United States Constitution, they also have a right to speak out against this lifestyle whenever they wish.  Christians have a right to express themselves just like anyone else does, just like Harper and DeGeneres did on their shows, just like liberals constantly do in regard to some pet cause they are championing.  Christians often do speak out against homosexuality, especially when gathered in their churches or in smaller groups of like-minded “believers” while engaged in discussion.

Opposition to homosexuality – this is the prevailing stance amongst most, but not all, Christians.  There are, however, exceptions.  There are more liberal-minded, left-leaning religious groups out there such as the Episcopal Church and the Unitarian Universalists.  These two groups are more progressive (as liberals now like to refer to themselves)  and overwhelmingly support gay, lesbian, and transgender rights.

It is interesting to note that, when Harper and DeGeneres publicly admitted to being homosexuals, there was zero public backlash.  Of course, one would expect this from the liberal left; but there was also no outrage on the part of the Christian community.  That’s not to say that the majority of Christians, all of a sudden, changed their stance on the gay lifestyle.  On the contrary, they were just as opposed to homosexuality as before.  There just weren’t any outcries or demands that Harper and DeGeneres be fired.  There were also no demands by Christians that NBC and ABC stop airing these shows.  Christian-organized boycotts of sponsors of the shows never happened and were never even discussed.  The admissions of homosexuality were made; and for the Christian community, there was the usual shaking of heads, rollings of eyes, and good-lord-what-is-this-world-coming-to statements; but life pretty much went on as usual.

Why is it the case that Christians didn’t make that much of a fuss over the Harper and DeGeneres admissions?  It is because, contrary to what the left would have us believe, the Christian community practiced tolerance instead of intolerance.  That is, even though Christians, didn’t – and still don’t – agree with homosexuality, they accepted the right of these people to live as they wish.  They “put up with that which one dislikes and finds objectionable and wrong.”  The reason they did so is because Christians understand that, in this country, we are free and have rights; and among these are the right to live as we wish as long as no one else is injured, and the right to freedom speech.

That’s not to say there aren’t Christian extremists.  Of course there are: there are crazy people in any organization.  Westboro Baptist Church, for instance, causes all kinds of problems at funerals of fallen U.S. soldiers.  They believe these soldier’s deaths are God’s wrath on America for putting up with homosexuality.  These people truly are ignorant, intolerant, hateful, and misguided.  They, and people like them, are however, exceptions to the rule.  Ninety-nine percent of Christians don’t think like these people.

The Selective Tolerance/Intolerance of the Liberal Left

As stated, liberals are the self-proclaimed champions of tolerance in this country.  Tolerance for groups that hold beliefs which are contrary to traditional American values is constantly preached by the left.  They are, for example, tolerant of Muslims who are adherents of a belief system based on a book – the Koran – which explicitly states that infidels (non-Muslims) should be put to death and that women are property.  They are, as would be expected, not only tolerant of gays and lesbians but also of the perversion known as transgenderism.  Also, liberals don’t seem to have a problem with Communism.

Certain individuals are shown great degrees of tolerance by the left.  It would appear that Barrack Hussein Obama, Van Jones, Al Sharpton, and Bill Ayers all seem sympathetic to the core principles of Communism [1]; but that’s just fine with liberals because Communism is opposed to basic American ideas of individual liberty (well, for conservatives anyway), freedom of speech, and free-market capitalism.  They too, are opposed to these ideas; so those who preach anti-American messages are not only tolerated but fully embraced and encouraged.

Individuals who speak out against conservatives, Christians, or white people are heroes to the liberal left, so these people and their speech are tolerated with no hesitation.

Martin Bashir, an MSNBC commentator, recently made disrespectful comments about Sarah Palin and then went on to say that she should have her mouth urinated and defecated into.  This was not an accidental off-the-cuff remark; it was scripted.  Conservatives complained, but liberals were silent.  It took three weeks before Bashir finally resigned.  NBC never fired him.

ESPN commentator Dana Jacobson during a vodka-induced, on-air tirade, said the following about Christianity:  “Fuck Notre Dame, fuck touchdown Jesus, and fuck Jesus.” She was suspended for one week but has since returned to ESPN, and is now back on the air.  Again, liberals had nothing to say about this.  This episode is reminiscent of the 1987 art exhibit controversy surrounding a picture of a crucifix submerged in a glass of urine, which was defended by liberals as freedom of expression.

During a Jamie Foxx Saturday Night Live monologue in which Django in Chains was being discussed, he stated, “I get free. I save my wife, and I kill all the white people in the movie.  How great is that?”  There was no outrage from the liberal left at all.  On the contrary, the audience responded with applause.  There was plenty of tolerance to go around after these comments were made.  There probably wouldn’t have been as much tolerance for the free speech of a conservative actor made some sort of statement about killing gays.

One would think that liberals have got the market cornered when it comes to tolerance, right?  Wrong.  This is not really the case at all.  Even though liberals are quite tolerant in regard to individuals and organizations with which they agree, they have absolutely no tolerance when it comes to conservatives.

The fact of the matter is when conservatives speak out against groups, individuals, or practices with whom or with which they disagree, they are branded as mean-spirited, homophobic, or racist.  The words they utter to proclaim their disagreement with some action or concept are labeled as “hate speech.”

Nineteen-year Air Force Senior Master Sgt. Phillip Monk found himself relieved of duty and facing formal investigation because he disagreed ( and still does) with his new company commander – a lesbian – over the issue of gay marriage.  When asked his opinion of gay marriage, he was truthful and stated he was opposed to it, as it is against his Christian beliefs.  His lesbian commander then began disciplinary proceedings against him for no other reason that his beliefs.

More recently, A&E Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson was dismissed from the program for comments he made about homosexuality in a recent GQ magazine interview.  All Robertson did was honestly answer a question that was posed to him.  In other words, he committed the unforgivable [2] mistake of  making public his negative opinion of homosexuality.  Of course reaction was as expected: the liberal left lost their mind over the matter.  After all, one doesn’t speak out against one of the progressive’s sacred cows, homosexuality being the most sacred these days.

Liberal Motivations

This recent Duck Dynasty controversy speaks volumes about the core beliefs and motivations of left-wing America.

First of all, liberals believe themselves to be more educated, generally smarter, and more enlightened about the world – basically intellectually superior to conservatives.  They are what Thomas Sowell refers to as the “anointed.”

Secondly, because of their intellectual superiority over the common people and even educated conservatives, they have certain responsibilities.  “To whom much is given, much is required,” so they would say in regard to their greatness.  It is, therefore, their destiny, in their opinion, to make us stupid hicks aware of how things really ought to be – to enlighten us and bring us around to their way of thinking, because their way of thinking is, after all, how everyone is supposed to think.

This educating and enlightening of the masses is to be accomplished by:

1. Forcing liberal views on everyone else.  That is, inundate the masses with liberal thought on college campuses and on television as common sense and simply the way things really ought to be.
2. Retaliating against those who speak out against liberalism by branding them as racist, homophobic, ignorant, mean-spirited, etc.  Once demonized, conservatives will hopefully shut up and make it easier for the anointed to convert others.
3. Eliminating opposing viewpoints whenever possible.  If access to conservative opinion is taken away, indoctrination of the ignorant, ill-informed, low-information, useful idiot will be much easier.

The third core belief of the liberal left is that, because they are so much more enlightened than both the average fence-sitting commoner and the stupid conservative hick, they don’t have to be tolerant. for two reasons:

1. Their ways of thinking are the truth, and anything other than their truth is a lie.  So why should they be tolerant of views that are lies?  One doesn’t show tolerance for lies.  Their opinions are how things are supposed to be.
2. The uninformed masses are simply children who are behaving (thinking) badly.  As parents should not tolerate bad behavior by their children, so should the superior liberal not tolerate the thoughts and opinions of their inferiors.  We don’t tolerate bad behavior from children; we correct it.  To do otherwise would simply be illogical.

Webster defines acceptance as “to regard as proper, normal, or inevitable.”  This is what liberals want.  They want the entire world to accept their beliefs, especially their acceptance of homosexuality, as proper, normal, and inevitable.  Simply tolerating or “putting up with that which one dislikes and finds objectionable and wrong” is totally unacceptable, and they are fighting like hell to change things.  They are angry and resentful over the fact that they even have to wage this war on these stupid traditional American values in the first place.  Everybody ought to understand that what they believe is the truth.  It is a travesty to them that this is not the case.

Like it or not, Christians are going to be around for a very long time; and homosexuality will never be accepted as normal by most of these people.  The anything-goes, liberal socialist will just have to get over it.  The rest of us can go buy some Duck Dynasty t-shirts.  :)

Endnotes

1. The two core principles of Communism are: (1) An all-powerful, centralized, nanny-state government which is supposed to take care of all things for all people, especially the poor; and (2) the redistribution of wealth from the upper and middle classes to the poor.
2. After this incident, Charlie Sheen stated that Robertson’s comments were “unforgivable.”