[Mrs. Don-o]

laglady, you are defending a "Live and Let Live," you-do-our-thing,-I'll-do-mine kind of approach, and there's a certain worldly sense in that. As Lady Campbell said, "Does it really matter what these affectionate people do, so long as they don't do it on the street and frighten the horses?"

This, however, is not what the papal theologian was talking about. He was talking about respect for the dignity of homosexual persons --- not tolerance, not niceness, not a laissez-faire indifference, but respect --- which entails the sometimes not-tolerant, not-nice obligation to tell them the truth.

The "respect" of which I speak is not respect for their sexual appetites, nor their indulgence of the same, but respect for their persons. This is rooted in respect for God who made them. Not that He made them gay (He did no such thing) but that He made them human.

Tolerance is not a Christian virtue.

[Mach9]

Tolerance is not a Christian virtue.

BRAVO! Exactly. But I’m beginning to doubt that any so-called Christian (especially in the media, if there ARE any) realizes it. They confuse charity with tolerance—deadly.