[Normy]

-I've already said why I started this thread: A poster on the forum of the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel basically stated that he felt that the notion of "tolerance" was forced acceptance. I'll paraphrase: he feels that he is being forced to "accept" people that are different from him.

The operative terms here are "tolerance" and "accept". Before we can go any farther, we need to define these terms.

-Let me tell you about the two neighbors across the street from me. 2909 is a home occupied by a family of four. The parents are 55 or so, and the kids are adopted children from central America. A boy and a girl, 15 and 13 respectively. They are extreme (!) fundamentalist christians. Their children are home-schooled, and the reason, from what I've gained from my neighbors...is that they find the local Catholic schools to be WAY too secular, and have decided to keep their children from that "wayward" environment.

2917? It is owned by two gay men- Justin and Tim. Tim is a pilot for a commuter airline and owns an '87 BMW 635 CSI, and me and him have had beers across openned car hoods in my driveway. I've got a boat-load of cheap [Craftsman] tools, so when he needs to work on his car, and I'm around...he's banging on my door. "What's the name of that guy in England that you know who does MAF's?" he said to me last week, when I told him that I thought his part had gone south. He's a great guy, and I can't believe anyone on here would have a problem with him. But he is a gay man, in the end-

How do the two houses get along? You'd be surprised to find out that when 2909 goes on vacation...these fundamentalist christians ask the two gay guys next door to watch their house.

Thoughts?

N!