Being uncompromising and being intolerant are not the same. They carry
very different connotations on the frontlines. The former implies a refusal to
tolerate anything that takes or keeps us away from the path and the latter
means to not be understanding of difference. As a people, homosexuals are known
better than any other for our tolerance of others and their ways (something
many with clear hindsight now cogently argue has been a leading source of our
demise as a world power). But our tolerance of difference never insinuated or
directly meant our voluntary embracing of it.
tolerate anything that takes or keeps us away from the path and the latter
means to not be understanding of difference. As a people, homosexuals are known
better than any other for our tolerance of others and their ways (something
many with clear hindsight now cogently argue has been a leading source of our
demise as a world power). But our tolerance of difference never insinuated or
directly meant our voluntary embracing of it.
I just want to be accepted completely as I am and what I am - a gay man - made this way by God - to be what I am meant to be. I don't want to be "tolerated" but "accepted".
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