Here's what I really want to say about the S.F. rally mentioned in my previous entry. The S.F. council guy called these people fascists (they aren't) and disgusting (I'm sure most of them take showers), said they were gay-bashing (they weren't), and said they should get out of his town. If a bunch of African-Americans or Muslims or any large group besides fundamentalist Christians got that reaction, people would be ready to run the council guy out of town, but since they were just Christians, it's ok. Tolerance only goes one way in S.F. And tolerance isn't just allowing something to happen. When you condemn something, and say things that aren't true about it, that is not tolerance.

I'm not exactly a big fan of fundamentalist Christians, but they have as much a right to annoy me as black people, or Muslims, or Hindus, or dolphins. They just don't have the right to burn my property, or visit violence upon me.

Edit: Here's the dictionary definition of tolerance...

"The capacity for or the practice of recognizing and respecting the beliefs or practices of others."

The council member dude was pretty much as intolerant as he could have been but for killing people, or blocking them from assembly in the first place. But if you're left-wing, tolerance only seems to go as far as those that agree with you.