Hypocrisy and Tolerance

In a discussion on another blog this morning, a person who supported Prop 8 and defends the remarks by Mr. Oaks last week informed me that I was a hypocrite, and in actuality, he's was right.

I had made the claim that freedom of religion should not be restricted, yet at the same time putting forth my opinion that the LDS Church should not have been allowed to meddle in political affairs. The whole debate is a little precarious since a Church should have the right to encourage it's followers to support the tenants of the religion, but I believe there is a line where it moves from encouragement to creating a voting bloc to push through the political agenda of the Church hierarchy.

Or as I put it... I want to strip the Church of the right to participate in a process of removing the rights of another group.

Consequently, in an unrelated matter, I was reading up a little on Herbert Marcuse. I'd like to read more, but I found the following statement on him interesting and related to my debate discussed in the prior paragraph.

Marcuse argues that genuine tolerance does not tolerate support for repression, since doing so ensures that marginalized voices will remain unheard. He characterizes tolerance of repressive speech as "inauthentic." Instead, he advocates a discriminatory form of tolerance that does not allow so-called "repressive" intolerance to be voiced.

Kind of makes you think!!