Columnist: homosexual lobby never did have “tolerance”
Alan Sears of ADF writes for Townhall.com,
For a while, advocates pushing for the redefinition of marriage did so from behind closed doors, and in a manner that all but guaranteed their efforts could not be traced back to them. In time, however, they began pushing for redefinition in the light, but always with the careful use of a specific lexicon that allowed them to state what they wanted to accomplish while simultaneously not stating it in concrete terms. . . .
Whether they wanted to look tolerant or not, doing so was necessary for achieving the redefinition they sought. . . .
But such feigned amiability was for when the race began, or even when it was still but half-way over. Now, with what they assume to be the finish line in plain sight, even the merest pretense of tolerance is gone. Rather, there is a brutal, and at times confrontational, air to the jurisprudence and public discourse enveloping those pushing for a redefinition of marriage. . . .
Moreover, they demanded that hundreds of laws be changed, the meaning of “family” be redefined, forced “equality” be promoted, children be reconditioned (read “re-educated”) through school programs, and that the European Charter be amended to define marriage as “two persons.”
Of course, there’s not a need to re-educate if you tolerate, nor is there a need to redefine and amend what tolerance abides.
But here’s the problem—there is no tolerance, and there never has been. . . .