American society has become more tolerant of many things over the years. We have even inscribed that tolerance into law. In many places that tolerance has recently included the sexual preference of people - you cannot be discriminated against if you are gay or straight or whatever. Now we see people whose religion dictates against alternative sexual preferences interpreting a passive tolerance as an active assault on their values, and they are fighting to overturn that rule of tolerance. Where does this logically end? Next in line, maybe, will be the people who believe that miscegenation was always evil?