{"id":4726,"date":"2012-11-26T15:21:38","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T20:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/frenchrevolution\/?p=4726"},"modified":"2012-11-26T15:21:38","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T20:21:38","slug":"tolerance-is-virtue-on-the-cheap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/frenchrevolution\/2012\/11\/26\/tolerance-is-virtue-on-the-cheap\/","title":{"rendered":"“Tolerance” is Virtue on the Cheap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Via Charles C. Cooke, I ran across an appalling story<\/a> from Great Britain. \u00a0According to The Telegraph<\/em><\/a>, a British couple had three foster children removed from their home because the couple belonged to the UK Independence Party, and social welfare officials have deemed the party \u201cracist.\u201d \u00a0In a rational world, the foster parents would be considered exemplary citizens:<\/p>\n

The husband was a Royal Navy reservist for more than 30 years and works with disabled people, while his wife is a qualified nursery nurse.<\/p>\n

Former Labour voters, they have been approved foster parents for nearly seven years and have looked after about a dozen different children, one of them in a placement lasting four years.<\/p>\n

They took on the three children \u2014 a baby girl, a boy and an older girl, who were all from an ethnic minority and a troubled family background \u2014 in September in an emergency placement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yet our world is far from rational. From my many encounters with the hard Left, I learned long ago that you are deemed an evil person \u2014 regardless of your other virtues \u2014 if you believe men shouldn\u2019t have sex with each other or that babies shouldn\u2019t be dismembered in the womb on a mother\u2019s whim, but I can sometimes forget how smugly self-satisfied the disciples of tolerance can be. \u00a0You see, just as you can serve your country, your fellow man, and feed the hungry for your entire adult life and still be considered nothing more than a lowlife bigot if you don\u2019t adopt the latest fad in modern sexual morality, so can an absolutely miserly prick be considered \u201cgood\u201d for simply having the \u201ccorrect\u201d thoughts bouncing around his otherwise self-indulgent brain.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m reminded of the ongoing, public vilification of Michele Bachmann. \u00a0Here\u2019s a woman who \u2014 by any objective measure \u2014 has dedicated an enormous part of her adult life to helping the \u201cleast of these.\u201d \u00a0Who among us has taken in more than twenty foster children (she fostered 23)? \u00a0Who among us has taken in even one foster child? \u00a0Yet is there a more mocked and despised woman in all of Congress?<\/p>\n

The secular Kingdom of Man so painstakingly constructed by our cultural elite is pretty appealing, in concept. \u00a0In this secular kingdom, your sexual experimentation is virtuous (brave<\/a>, even), you can delegate charitable service to the welfare bureaucracy, and you can even convert what would otherwise be intolerance and totalitarianism into \u201ctolerance\u201d and \u201ccivil rights\u201d so long as you choose the right targets for your venom and vengeance. \u00a0And as the social costs of your libertinism continue to build and build, simply kick the can down to unborn future generations while ostracizing from polite society anyone with the temerity to ask that either the self-indulgence or the fiscal irresponsibility slow or \u2014 God forbid \u2014 stop.<\/p>\n

And so the innocent will once suffer \u2014 after the horror that necessitated the initial \u201cemergency placement,\u201d they are removed from yet another home, disrupted again \u2014 to serve the lords of tolerance. \u00a0But at least three underprivileged kids won\u2019t be exposed to bad politics, so British social welfare bureaucrats can sleep soundly at night, secure in a job well done.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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