{"id":4158,"date":"2013-04-30T20:53:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T01:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4158"},"modified":"2013-04-30T20:53:04","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T01:53:04","slug":"true-tolerance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4158","title":{"rendered":"True tolerance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Broussard at ESPN said that Jason Collins, the NBA player who’s come out as gay, isn’t a true Christian and is “in open rebellion to God.”\u00c2\u00a0 So what?\u00c2\u00a0 Well, he got some blowback from a variety of sources.\u00c2\u00a0 So what?\u00c2\u00a0 Well, he’s now got to clarify things<\/a>, and when he does, he also needs to clarify a concept for all of us:<\/p>\n

true tolerance and acceptance is being able to handle [differing lifestyle beliefs] as mature adults and not criticize each other and call each other names<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t think that’s true tolerance.\u00c2\u00a0 Tolerance means that even when you think someone else is wrong about something that matters, you don’t exclude them or prohibit them from doing the things that they do.\u00c2\u00a0 Tolerance isn’t tolerance if you like what they do.\u00c2\u00a0 It means putting up with things you hate.\u00c2\u00a0 That, by the way, was one of the reasons why the stoics thought of themselves as the ones who kept the old Republican virtues alive, by the way. But, notice, that doesn’t mean that you have to hold your tongue.\u00c2\u00a0 In fact, tolerance without care for criticism and correction isn’t much of anything — it’s more like ignoring each other.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, and convenient that he’s NOW saying that tolerance is not criticizing others.\u00c2\u00a0 Again, sometimes inconsistency is evidence of a double standard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chris Broussard at ESPN said that Jason Collins, the NBA player who’s come out as gay, isn’t a true Christian and is “in open rebellion to God.”\u00c2\u00a0 So what?\u00c2\u00a0 Well, he got some blowback from a variety of sources.\u00c2\u00a0 So what?\u00c2\u00a0 Well, he’s now got to clarify things, and when he does, he also needs … Continue reading True tolerance<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,1109,11],"tags":[135,899,1963],"class_list":["post-4158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-circumstantial","category-argument-from-double-standards","category-equivocation","tag-ad-hominem-tu-quoque","tag-double-standards","tag-equivocation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4159,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4158\/revisions\/4159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}