Intolerant Quotes

In a recent interview, I was asked how I reconciled being a Christian with performing at events for my gay fans. I find it upsetting that some folks equate being a Christian with being intolerant of gay people. That may, unfortunately, be true for some, but it is not true for me. I have talked often of my love and support of the gay community. I have said again and again that it was the gay community that supported me long before and long after American Idol, and kept me working and motivated. It is the gay community that celebrated my voice and my size and my personality long before Dreamgirls. Yes, I was raised Baptist. Yes, I was taught that the Bible has certain views on homosexuality. The Bible also teaches us not to judge. It teaches us to love one another as God loves us all. I love my sister, my two best friends and my director dearly. They happen to be gay. So what? While some search for controversy, I hope that my friends and fans who know me, know where I stand.

It is long overdue for parents to realize they have the right and duty to protect our children against the intolerant evolutionists.

The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.

It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.

Ultimately, America`s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

The employment laws today are extremely complex, and it`s extremely difficult for an employer to keep up with them. The system is very intolerant of lack of knowledge.

My whole family is lactose intolerant and when we take pictures we can`t say cheese.

No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.

Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men

The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles contradict the way things really are --- and always will be. How things really are --- and always will be --- is neither all-evil nor all-good but deficient, inconsistent, inferior. Principles invite us to do something about the morass of contradictions in which we function morally. Principles invite us to clean up our act; to become intolerant of moral laxity and compromise and cowardice and the turning away from what is upsetting: that secret gnawing of the heart that tells us that what we are doing is not right, and so counsels us that we`d be better off just not thinking about it.

What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.