Too much tolerance?

Conservative Activists Considering Role of Gay Lawmakers Living a Lie May Have Contributed to Mark Foley's Downfall By JAKE TAPPER WASHINGTON, Oct. 5, 2006 Conservative activists are beginning to discuss the Mark Foley scandal as indicative of a GOP that has become too tolerant of gays in their midst. (ABC NEWS)

There is, buried in this article, this line by Tony Perkins:

"As a society, we've made diversity and tolerance the guidepost of public life," Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council told ABC News. "Maybe we shouldn't be surprised that we have congressmen chasing after 16-year-old boys."

If it does not make you see red, then you do not understand. Unfortunatelyy, the homophobic among us do not want you to understand. They want you to think: homosexual = pedofile. That is in the same vein as latino = illegal immigrant.

Has the United Statestrulyy devolved to the point where the majority of its citizens actually agrees that diversity and tolerance are bad things? I am not supporting what Rep Foley did, for whatever reason,convenientt or otherwise. I am however damning Perkins and all of those narrow minded, backwards thinking individuals (I could say white males, but that would be offending white males) who think this way. We need more tolerance in this society, not less.