[Normy]

I saw something interesting in today's Fort Lauderdale newspaper. There was an article about the recent ruling by the California Supreme Court regarding gay marriage. They have a comments forum, and predictably it gets pretty heated.

[anyway...]

One of the comments hit me as both pathetic and thought provoking. An individual posted that basically, the notion of "tolerance" was other people forcing him to accept people who are different from him. Now, I didn't have a chance to cross-examine this person to find out what his definition of tolerance is, nor do I understand what he means about the term "forced", but it occurs to me that some people believe that tolerance, by the standard definitions of race, color, creed, national origin, sexuality, gender, and perhaps disability is in fact a bad thing, and that they are "forced" to accept others.

Do you believe that "tolerance" is "forced acceptance", and why or why not?

N-