Oh no, sillies, it doesn't mean that at all. You are only supposed to tolerate those things deemed tolerable by those who run the tolerance racket.
Let's review: If you own a bakery and you don't want to bake a cake for a gay wedding, you will be
fined and/or sent
to re-education sessions. You must take part in the accommodation of the gay wedding in any way the state deems appropriate. You will not say no.
But let's say you're gay and you own a hotel, and Ted Cruz wants you to host an event at your hotel. In this case, you will be harassed and pressured to
apologize if you agree to do so. Ted Cruz is a vile and disgusting Republican who does not espouse the acceptable positions on gay marriage. No accommodation of Ted Cruz will be allowed. You will not say yes.
Make no mistake: Tolerance is not a one-way street, at least to the extent we're letting the left define it. I didn't much care one way or the other about the whole Bruce Jenner interview this past weekend, but I couldn't help but be amused to read how Twitter reactions to the interview changed when the transgender Olympian informed Diane Sawyer that he is a conservative Republican. Suddenly the people who were supposed to be "hating" him were cheering him on, where the people who had positioned themselves as his supporters were having fits.
What do you take from that, and from the different attitudes between gay wedding cake bakers and the hotelier under pressure for hosting Ted Cruz? Simply this: The notion of "tolerance" doesn't really have to do with tolerance at all. It has to do with using certain people as props so you have an excuse to bludgeon other people who are your political opponents. When you're target is Christians, then LGBT couples are your props. When your target is Ted Cruz, then the LGBT hotelier is not useful to you unless he plays by your rules. And you love the transgender person as long as he/she/whatever can be used to demonstrate the hatefulness of conservatives. But let the transgender person turn out to be a conservative . . . well that's not useful at all!
If the idea was really that we all just accept each other, and live and let live, I think just about everyone could get behind that. Of course, that would also mean you'd have to respect someone's decision to tell you to find another baker or florist, because you'd have to respect their right to make their decisions too. But in a truly tolerant world, you'd just respect that decision and not file a complaint with the state. You'd also respect the fact that a hotelier's job is to run a profitable hotel and not to serve a political agenda, and that might mean he hosts an event put on by someone with whom he does not agree politically.
But that's not the type of tolerance the American left is pushing. Far from it. Their tolerance is one way and one way only, which means it's not tolerance at all that they're after. It's dominance by them and submission by everyone else. You'd better keep up with the rules.
