California Changing Tolerance

[Quantos]

http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=4790

http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/13397793.html

The Current Version of the Bill
http://www.aroundthecapitol.com/billtrack/text.html?file=ab_1056_bill_20060502_amended_sen.html

(e) For purposes of this article, "tolerance" means attitudes and
behaviors that convey respect toward individuals and groups,
especially those individuals and groups that have been, and continue
to be, systematically and historically marginalized. Tolerance does
not mean a passive allowance or indulgence of the beliefs or
practices of another individual.

So now if I'm not accepting & agreeing with somthing I'm not Tollerating it ?


MODS: This may need to be moved to another area due to the subject matter that it will envoke.

 

[Dracil]

According to that, tolerance means:

I respect your desire to have sex with children and you as an individual, but I'm still turning you into the police.

Extrapolate it to the subject matter (I'm guessing perpetrators of hate crimes?) you think will be invoked.

 

[UberLutheran]

http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=4790

http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/13397793.html

The Current Version of the Bill
http://www.aroundthecapitol.com/billtrack/text.html?file=ab_1056_bill_20060502_amended_sen.html



So now if I'm not accepting & agreeing with somthing I'm not Tollerating it ?


MODS: This may need to be moved to another area due to the subject matter that it will envoke.

Something I heard many years ago when I was active in Al-Anon, the support group for families and friends of alcoholics and addicts:

"'Acceptance' does not mean 'approval'."

There are lots and lots and lots of things I accept, which I don't necessarily approve of -- but people are people and as such we are at once both saint and sinner.
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