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It didn’t seem to help you. You seem to have reduced EDI initiatives down to “tolerance” all on your own. Any of the programs I’ve read through are much more nuanced than a mere blanket declaration of “tolerance.”
I give help to those who need it.
Not a maxim, but a victim-identity badge for them, and that's where it all started. Tolerance, then support, then celebrate.
Tolerance is a goal in cases where intolerance is present and harmful. Harmful intolerance can be stubborn, so sometimes you’ll see the left working hard for tolerance. This is where the right mistakenly identifies the left as claiming to be Omni-tolerant, which isn’t the case. They’re just trying to get you to stop harming people, and the bare minimal form of that is tolerance. Ideally, sure, everyone celebrates everything as long as they’re not causing harm, but we take baby steps.
Your closing sentence proves my point.
Support would be better, yes. Of course we want you to support these things you refuse to support. Actively helping people is better than merely not harming them.
And just how is it that you would like me to support homosexuality?
Yes, it is. Tolerating homosexuality means not actively attacking them or targeting them with legislation. Tolerance is necessary where it’s not already present. Supporting homosexuality means treating them no differently than you would your heterosexual friends. As in, don’t grimace every time they mention their same-sex partner, or a date they went on, or bring a same-sex partner around. Include them in your social functions and attend theirs. Be a reliable source of emotional support.
It's not morally commendable to give approval of things that are inherently sinful.
We can agree to disagree there. Since your basis for rejecting homosexuality as a valid lifestyle is biblical, you can understand why many in the gay community hold contempt for Christianity. Moreover, you are openly admitting that you will not treat gay people with the basic human courtesy that you afford the straights. And you’re calling the left intolerant? Please.
You don't have to approve. But thanks for a link that tells us that the punishment is death. It's a good example of what toleration is not about...telling some gay person that they 'deserve to die'.
I didn't say anything about gay people. I only addressed the issue of homosexuality.
It's what it amounts to.
