Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Tolerance

I've had this issue in my mind a lot lately and so I was doing some research on it and found this really great article
http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/commentary/the-divine-institution-of-marriage

Here is an excerpt:
"In today’s secular world, the idea of tolerance has come to mean something entirely different. Instead of love, it has come to mean condone – acceptance of wrongful behavior as the price of friendship. Jesus taught that we love and care for one another without condoning transgression. But today’s politically palatable definition insists that unless one accepts the sin he does not tolerate the sinner.

As Elder Dallin H. Oaks has explained,

Tolerance obviously requires a non-contentious manner of relating toward one another’s differences. But tolerance does not require abandoning one’s standards or one’s opinions on political or public policy choices. Tolerance is a way of reacting to diversity, not a command to insulate it from examination."

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