DeletedUser1121
I would like to start a thread about tolerance. Should you be tolerant to people who don't share your views on life? Should you even be tolerant to people who don't share your views of life, but force you to be tolerant about theirs?
To prevent major discussions about the definition of tolerance, let me put one up for you.
a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinions, practices, race, religion, nationality, etc., differ from one's own; freedom from bigotry.
A while ago about something happened in my beautiful country. In Holland it is legal to marry someone of the same sex. By law is determined that this marriage has the same rights as a marriage between a man and woman. A marriage is performed by someone who is appointed by the local goverment to do so. Ever since the gay marriage was made legal, there have been officiants who refused to perfom a marriage between a gay couple based on their religious beliefs. This never was an issue since they have the freedom to choose their religion and there always is an officiant available who doesn't have any issues to perform the ceremony.
But now the gay community feels discriminated by these persons and feel that they are entitled to get married by whoever is appointed to do so. So, what is happening here is that gay people force others to marry them because if they don't they aren't tolerant about their different sexual preference. But they don't show any form of tolerance towards other people's religion. Or are the officiants just not tolerant towards the gay community? I personally didn't really care until people actually didn't get their contracts renewed because they refused to marry gay people. This basically comes down to a collision between two fundamental rights: discrimination and freedom of religion. But it all comes down to tolerance.
Who is not being tolerant according to you and why?
The gay community because they are entitled to marry according to the law. Or the officiants, who have been officiants before the law was changed, who feel that their religion forbids them to perform such a marriage. The minister (Christian party) said that she feels that officiants could refuse to marry gay couples based on the freedom of religion, which caused a wave of protests (mainly from the COC, the Dutch association of integration of homosexuality).
To prevent major discussions about the definition of tolerance, let me put one up for you.
a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinions, practices, race, religion, nationality, etc., differ from one's own; freedom from bigotry.
A while ago about something happened in my beautiful country. In Holland it is legal to marry someone of the same sex. By law is determined that this marriage has the same rights as a marriage between a man and woman. A marriage is performed by someone who is appointed by the local goverment to do so. Ever since the gay marriage was made legal, there have been officiants who refused to perfom a marriage between a gay couple based on their religious beliefs. This never was an issue since they have the freedom to choose their religion and there always is an officiant available who doesn't have any issues to perform the ceremony.
But now the gay community feels discriminated by these persons and feel that they are entitled to get married by whoever is appointed to do so. So, what is happening here is that gay people force others to marry them because if they don't they aren't tolerant about their different sexual preference. But they don't show any form of tolerance towards other people's religion. Or are the officiants just not tolerant towards the gay community? I personally didn't really care until people actually didn't get their contracts renewed because they refused to marry gay people. This basically comes down to a collision between two fundamental rights: discrimination and freedom of religion. But it all comes down to tolerance.
Who is not being tolerant according to you and why?
The gay community because they are entitled to marry according to the law. Or the officiants, who have been officiants before the law was changed, who feel that their religion forbids them to perform such a marriage. The minister (Christian party) said that she feels that officiants could refuse to marry gay couples based on the freedom of religion, which caused a wave of protests (mainly from the COC, the Dutch association of integration of homosexuality).