Modern application of 'tolerance' is the government's encroaching on one group of people's rights to allow the spread of another group's decadence. Far from true benevolence, this type of 'tolerance' is the systematic extermination of Christian morality under the two headed beast they have named "civil rights" and "tolerance".
There is nothing 'civil' about homosexual unions, abortion, pornography, feminism, no-fault divorce, and irreligion. It's uncivility posing as freedom. Notice that with the ascendency of 'tolerance' comes the public prohibition of Christianity. Evil has become good, and good has become evil. What we need is another Emporer Constantine.
Unfortunately, we may end up with the Mahdi instead.