Letter: Theft of campaign signs shows intolerance

To the editor,

Minnesota Marriage Protection Amendment, vote “Yes” or vote “No.” This is very straight forward and simple, or is it? I am not writing in today to discuss your views, your choice of lifestyle, your faith or any other factors that will sway you to make a choice on voting. Today I want to discuss “intolerance.”

This is a significant charge that is being appointed to emotional situations much more frequently in our country, especially with the swing of progressivism. No, I am not intolerant of progressivism; it is a statement of fact that accurately describes our current Federal government’s direction and leadership.

Tolerance means respecting the beliefs and practices that people hold and living peacefully with those beliefs and practices. Where the problem lies is that tolerance can be harmful when it becomes a common response, it simply becomes a virtue of people who believe in nothing or everything. Of course you cannot become tolerant unless you disagree or object first.

In today’s progressive ideology, the homosexual movement claims to be searching and demanding tolerance. In truth, they are searching for affirmation from those who are not tolerant or object as I said above. Now, those who do not offer confirmation of this ideology are now, by default, intolerant.

Please, those of you in our community that disagree with the “Yes” signs, stop taking them from those who hold another view point or ideology. You yourself must be tolerant.

Todd Kullmann

Hastings

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