Americans Believe in True Tolerance
 
Americans Believe in True Tolerance
Written By Micah Clark   |   08.14.15
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I have often said that tolerance today is a one-way street on a road called liberalism. Whenever words like “tolerance” “diversity” or now “non-discrimination” pop up look out, someone’s free speech rights are being shelved.

Thankfully, most Americans seem to see through the politically correct fog well enough to identify what is really going on.  In the last three emails, I have mentioned national polls from the Associated Press, the Washington Post and others showing that Americans do not believe in stifling religious expression or beliefs in the face of a pro-homosexual culture and political establishment.

Here’s more evidence.  A poll from Rasmussen found that an overwhelming percentage of Americans believe tolerance works both ways.  Eighty-five (85%) percent say that a Christian baker or photographer should be allowed to decline a request to participate in a homosexual wedding which goes against their religious beliefs.

A new poll from Caddell Associates finds that only 8 percent of those surveyed agree with the idea embraced by the Obama Administration and its Commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission who said, “when there is a conflict between religious liberty and sexual liberty,  religious liberty loses.”

Micah Clark
In 1989 Micah Clark graduated from Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Missouri with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science. Micah interned as a member of the Indiana House of Representatives’ Republican staff and later became an Assistant Campaign Manager for a State Senator. Micah then served as a legislative assistant for Citizens Concerned for the Constitution. He served as the Indiana Family Institute’s Director of Public Policy, and later as its Executive Director, throughout the 1990’s. Micah is the only person to have served with all three of Indiana’s top statewide pro-family organizations. In November 2001, Micah became the Executive...
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