So today the first professional male athlete in American sports history came out, and in response, a columnist named Kelly Dwyer came out with a column, which you can read here.
How dare someone use their freedom of speech. How dare they. Tolerance means that we should accept everyone's beliefs about everything! For someone to disagree with the common belief, why, they're just being an intolerant, bigoted troll. I'm ashamed of both Jason and Chris for speaking out on their beliefs about living as a gay man respecting Christian beliefs and living as a Christian tolerating a gay man.
"He disagrees with my beliefs and my lifestyle but true tolerance and acceptance is being able to handle that as mature adults and not criticize each other and call each other names."
It seems to me that both Jason Collins and Chris Broussard live by that statement, but I'm not so sure about Kelly Dwyer.
What are your thoughts on the "double standard?"
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We can be tolerant to an extent, I suppose, as in not railing people of other beliefs every time we see them. But we should also be correcting people in love, should we not? If we see someone who is about to get hit by a car, but they think they're ok, shouldn't we pull them away instead of being tolerant of their belief that they wont get hit? Just a thought
