If you wish to be
tolerated, you must tolerate.
This does not mean
that you must be silent and put up with intolerance. It does not mean
that you cannot decry the misdeeds of those who do not tolerate. It
merely means that, if you wish not to be excluded, you should not
exclude.
This does not mean
that you cannot sometimes set yourselves apart, especially if those
times and places in which you do not exclude you. But seeking
acceptance and toleration cannot rightly succeed if it does so by
seeking to exclude others who are not set to exclude you. The only
thing that should not be tolerated is intolerance.
Written January 2017
