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“After all–we’re all different.”
The words were spoken and the crowd gradually joined in with applause. G-Pop sat and listened carefully.
Something didn’t ring true.
The way to overcome intolerance is not to accentuate our differences. To think that human beings are capable of acknowledging differences among us without secretly holding prejudice against the person who dares to be different is absolutely ridiculous.
We are not divine. We are human. As humans, we are looking for reasons to find commonality.
This holds true in every relationship:
- If two people are dating and discover they have nothing in common, they don’t continue dating, hoping to build up toleration for one another
- If two kids are on the playground and one likes to play baseball and the other likes to climb the monkey bars, they quietly separate from one another, seeking out individuals whose taste in play is similar to theirs.
The path to peaceful coexistence is commonality.
How much do I have in common with you in comparison to our differences? Candidly, the word “difference” begins with “differ.”
If we do differ from one another, the process is simple: if we’re civilized, we walk away to avoid an argument. If we aren’t quite so civilized, we stand there and argue.
I do not know when the definition of “toleration” became biting one’s lip and pretending to accept things that don’t make sense. Toleration is finding places of common ground and celebrating them.
The “pendulum do swing.”
In a short period of time, we’ve gone from being a nation that was abusive to the gay community to a nation which now has a plurality which is willing to include gay marriage. But we will never have true openness with one another until we find the linking parts. We can’t fake receptivity.
For I have no intention of taking the social standing of old religion, ISIS and Vladimir Putin and joining with them against the homosexual community. But I came to this conclusion not because I looked at my brothers and sisters as obtuse and unusual, but because they use words that are common to me: freedom, brotherhood, love, relationship and tenderness.
We are not going to become better people by pretending we are tolerant. We become better people when we find common ways that we share in common, accentuating our common values.
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