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Tolerance as a Virtue???

February 28, 2005

The Democrats say they want to court the religious in America. This is Howard Dean's attempt: Dean roars into town

"The issue is not abortion," Dean told the closed-door fund-raiser. "The issue is whether women can make up their own mind instead of some right-wing pastor, some right-wing politician telling them what to do." And Dean told the Hiebert fund-raiser that gay marriage was a Republican diversion from discussions of ballooning deficits and lost American jobs. That presents an opportunity to attract moderate Republicans, he said. "Moderate Republicans can't stand these people (conservatives), because they're intolerant. They don't think tolerance is a virtue," Dean said, adding: "I'm not going to have these right-wingers throw away our right to be tolerant."

Tolerance as defined in The American Heritage Dictionary:

The capacity for or the practice of recognizing and respecting the beliefs or practices of others.

In other words, we are putting up with something that we do not agree with or we find abhorent. When the Bible teaches us to love and pray for our enemies, to invite sinners into our home, to love the sinner - hate the sin; that is tolerance as a virtue. It does not include casting out right-wing pastors, politicians and anyone who is passionately pro-life and pro-family.

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