Jim writes:

> Not wishing to fan the flames here, but this issue of tolerance is being
>  used to bludgeon a lot of people and institutions.  If we take the
>  dictionary definitions:
>
>  tolerance; noun.  Liberality toward the opinions of others; patience with
>  others.
>
>  tolerant; adjective.  Forbearing; patient with the ideas or acts of others.
>
>  I think we can agree that everyone should be tolerant of others (since no
>  two people are the same).

Actually, that is precisely the core of the issue. I don't believe that
everyone does agree that such tolerance should either be promoted or perhaps
even allowed. As one person wrote yesterday:

> Unfortunately, too many so-called Christians have decided to become
tolerant.

I suspect that the dismissed Boise employee, beginning from a similar point
as what I interpret to be the above author's philosophical perspective to be,
would find being "patient with the ideas or acts of others" unacceptable
under virtually any circumstance.

Wirt Atmar