Tolerating the Intolerable

I had an interesting conversation with a person on Facebook yesterday about the Chick-fil-A firestorm. The person asked me if I agreed with their position on gay marriage and when I said that I also support traditional marriage and don't want it redefined into something else, this was her response:

"...well my children woke me up to life....as young adults in junior high school they were so tolorant of all their friends ..black white gay straight ....and i felt so proud of them in their beliefs...like so what....they are still human God created all of us no matter what..and don't get me wrong I was right there with them growing up...so what...i love all people regardless..i think it was the way i was raised...."

What does treating individuals with respect have to do with tolerating the assault on our Christian values?


“Tolerance” tol·er·ance (noun)

1.   A fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinions, practices, race , religion , nationality, etc., differ from one's own; freedom from bigotry. 2.   A fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward opinions and practices that differ from one's own. 3.   Interest in and concern for ideas, opinions, practices, etc., foreign to one's own; a liberal, undogmatic viewpoint.
Does this even begin to resemble how the radical left who claim to be the most “tolerant” people in this country behave? They demand that those of us who subscribe to orthodox Christian values abandon our deeply held beliefs and not just “tolerate” their behavior anymore, but approve of it or there will be hell to pay! It is no longer enough for them for us to “tolerate” their unbiblical behavior, now we are demanded to treat sexual immorality as a “virtue” and if we don’t we are threatened with boycotts, bodily harm and even death threats. That we are the ones branded as “intolerant” is laughable. That’s the kettle calling the porcelain teacup black. In the 1970s we were told it wasn’t any of our business what two consenting adults did in the privacy of their own bedrooms but now we see every kind of twisted aberrant behavior paraded out in public and on our television screens (“in our face”) and if we utter a peep of protest we are branded as haters and targeted for public destruction. You don’t see Christians targeting sexual deviants like this or singling them out for public execution!
Case in point: Chick Fil A’s CEO standing up for traditional marriage. Twenty years ago no one would have batted an eye; it would have been a “non story” but now that our own President has come out in favor of gay marriage this group feels emboldened to bully anyone and everything that doesn’t give their whole-hearted approval to what is a behavior condemned by God. The same thing happened the same week to a bakery owner in Colorado who has the right to refuse service to anyone and would not consent to make a wedding cake for a gay marriage. He is being inundated with hate mail and has stated that he may have to close his business rather than compromise on his religious beliefs.
It is Christians and Christianity that is no longer “tolerated” in our society and it is obvious that the day is fast approaching when the government might sanction the outright persecution of Christians because of their “intolerance” to immorality.


What’s down is up, what’s right is wrong, what’s black is white. The Old Testament has a warning for us in these last days that we should take very careful heed to: Isaiah 5:20
Woe to those who call evil goodand good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. If that doesn’t accurately describe what is going on today in our world then I don’t know what does.
It is the God of the Bible we will all have to give an account to; He is the ultimate judge of our souls. Are we going to conform to the world and just “try to get along” or are we going to stand firm in our faith?
I refer to you this excellent post from one of my favorite Bible Prophecy blogs, Rapture Ready; read it if you dare!
http://www.raptureready.com/featured/...