Tolerance Is Still Not a Two-Way Street
Michael Brown
Feb 07, 2012
http://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbrown/2012/02/07/tolerance_is_still_not_a_twoway_street/page/full/Mike Adams recently reported on the landmark ruling of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in the Julea Ward case, noting that the decision eloquently defended "fundamental religious freedom against a full-frontal assault from the LGBT community." In the court's own words, "Tolerance is a two-way street. Otherwise, the rule mandates orthodoxy, not anti-discrimination."
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Ah yes, the enlightened voice of tolerance! It reminds me of a comment posted by a viewer of a YouTube clip which included my interview on the Tyra Banks show where I dared to suggest that the best case scenario for a child struggling with Gender Identity Disorder was that the child be helped from the inside out, with the goal that the child would eventually feel at home with his or her body. (I advocated for this as opposed to a boy going to school dressed in girl's clothing, then being put on hormone blockers to delay the onset of puberty, then going through sex-change surgery at the youngest possible age, then being on hormones for life, still never becoming a fully-functioning male or female).
In response to this apparently outrageous suggestion on my part, a 16 year-old girl commented, "He [meaning me] deserves to be beaten, just like trans women get beaten worldwide, and murdered even. . . . I would like to do a lot of violent things to him too. I would horse kick him in the [expletives] while wearing high heels. I hate that man. YES!!!!! He is a [EXPLETIVE] IDIOT!!!!! Don't you just hate him??!!"