Originally published at The Catholic Thing
Along with its sibling “diversity,” “tolerance” has achieved the status of being our culture’s reigning virtue. Given its omnipresence, it is incumbent upon us to be morally serious about its definition and character when applied in the public sphere. The current cultural climate, however, militates against this – a climate in which at times grotesquely distorted forms of “diversity” are being mandated by government, education, as well as business, as in, the key sectors of American society.
