Monday, January 24, 2005

INTOLERANT, OR JUST TIRED OF BEING SUCKERS?

A study has found that "church-going Americans" have grown "increasingly intolerant", well that's certainly what the Reuters headline yells at you. But what have they grown intolerant of?
Church-going Americans have grown increasingly intolerant in the past four years of politicians making compromises on such hot issues as abortion and gay rights, according to a survey released on Saturday.

At the same time, those polled said they were growing bolder about pushing their beliefs on others -- even at the risk of offending someone.[emphasis added]

Is it unreasonable for church-going Americans to be upset at constantly being played the fool in American politics? I'm a little intolerant of that, too.

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