Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Gary Bauer: The Tolerance Trap

Speaking of words, the left has a favorite word it repeats over and over again: "tolerance." Tolerance for this, tolerance for that. If you're not tolerant, as the left defines it, you're a bigot.


Clearly, the left's "tolerance" argument is a trap meant to squelch free speech and shut us up. Once the left gets power through emotional appeals for "tolerance," it immediately abandons tolerance.


They are, in fact, obsessed with the exact opposite of tolerance. The intolerant, totalitarian left wants to make our lives miserable. They'd really like us all thrown in jail, but barring that, they want us demoralized and hopeless.


That's why Obama and Biden bathed the White House in the colors of the LGBTQ movement. It wasn't to celebrate; it was to gloat, to spread despair, and to rub it in our faces. The message was: "This ain't your country anymore. Get used to it."


Here's another example of the left's "tolerance."


Virginia was once a "purple" state. But it has moved further and further left in recent years, with the notable exception of Gov. Glenn Youngkin's election.


One of the main reasons the whole state has moved left is because Fairfax County, one of the fastest-growing areas of Virginia, went from being modestly left-of-center to a "killing field" for conservative candidates.


The Fairfax County public schools, once considered among the best in the nation, are now riddled with left-wing ideology. Thomas Jefferson High School, a premier school devoted to math and science, now has a quota system for student admission – a goal completely contrary to developing an elite student body based on merit.


The county's Board of Supervisors is dominated by leftists, with one old-line Republican. It just voted 9-to-0, with the Republican supervisor absent, to declare Easter Sunday "Transgender Day of Visibility," a day to celebrate science denial and embrace delusions.


That's what they want to do on the day Christians mark the resurrection of our Lord and Savior.


One progressive supervisor praised the vote for showing how tolerant the county is by ensuring "that everybody who's a part of our community feels welcomed, feels loved, and feels empowered."


I doubt many Christians in Fairfax County feel welcomed, loved, and empowered right now. Does that sound like a group of people who are interested in tolerating diverse viewpoints, who believe in "Live and let live"? Of course not.


So, in Fairfax County, June is "Pride Month," October is "LGBTQ History Month" in the schools, and now, on the day Christ rose from the dead, we're supposed to affirm and embrace individuals with deep mental delusions or we're not good people.


And I don't even want to think about how many churches in Fairfax, already flying the LGBTQ flag of surrender, will spend this Sunday recognizing transgender people instead of recognizing what Christ did for us.