A few days ago I posted about “Pride Month” and how disgusted a lot of us have become with having sexual deviancy shoved into our faces during the month of June. That post came following another in which I addressed the matter of someone accusing me of “bigotry” because of my beliefs about homosexuality.
The entire situation can be summarized by this statement I heard a number of times from the opposition: “We will not tolerate intolerance!”
I’ve been familiar with Karl Popper’s “paradox of intolerance” for quite awhile now, going back to a philosophy class that I took in college at Elon. The gist of it is that a society must be intolerant of intolerance, or else there is no tolerance at all. To a point, I can agree with that.
To a point, mind you.
But the reality has been for a very long time, that the “tolerant” ...
