There are nations whose cultures enslave their own wives and children, and though they'd claim to be ignorant of it, they also tolerate child marriages.

The dictionary definition of tolerance is:  an attitude where you resolve to recognize that others have views, beliefs, and practices often much different from your own; and you can put effort forth to bear or put up with something not especially liked ...because you believe every person has value.

So, with traditional tolerance, you can accept the individual without necessarily approving of, or participating in the beliefs or behaviors.

Josh McDowell and Bob Hostetler wrote a book on "The New Tolerance".  It sheds some light on the way tolerance is preached in schools.  Yet, with that teaching ...it seems that most of the focus is on labeling 'intolerance'.  Many of the concepts actually have a negative impact upon relationships between children and parents ...ever widening the generation gap, while promoting the belief that "What is wrong for one person isn't necessarily wrong for someone else."  So, while parents teach their children 'right and wrong', the children are taught that their parents are not only wrong, but are classified within that disdained group of people labeled as 'intolerant'.  And they are made to believe there is nothing worse.

Yet, it is so warped, that it is in fact indoctrinating those highly impressionable and striving to achieve youth ...to achieve an even higher level of intolerance, in labeling all those who disagree as such.

Some tolerance is good.  When we get so we cannot tolerate something for even a moment, it can become 'road rage'.  If we find it difficult or intolerable for a few days, or weeks, or months ...it can take many different forms, inclusive of divorce and abortion.

The bad in tolerance is very evident in the "new tolerance".  We can agree that all humans are created equal. It was a long struggle to put this idea into action ...and it is still a struggle for some, and the interpretation of it is constantly being manipulated.  It has been in writing for a long time, written in the Bible.  It was written in our country's Declaration of Independence.  But, anyone who has observed politics for any length of time knows that declaring something does not mean the same as believing it and living by it.  Our country fought the bloodiest war within our own shores ...summed up by Abraham Lincoln re-stating that same belief, and in 1865 the 13th Amendment to our Constitution stated that slavery was to be abolished.  

The law does not always remedy things either ...as to various degrees it is effectually carried out.  And it is difficult to control emotions, as it is evident with road rage and abortion advocates.  And there is a degree of belief that carries us to opposing slavery in our country, yet thinking nothing of the fact that our country turns a blind eye to 'sweat shops' and slave labor in other countries that produce goods for us at a reduced price.

We seem to complain more about degrees of luxury than we do occasions of injustice.  Of course, that is a Hallmark of a nation of more freedoms than anywhere on earth.  Abortion is demanded as a right, and slave labor abroad is hugely ignored.  To think we own someone is unconscionable, and should not be tolerated ...whether we label it ownership of slaves, or of the unborn.  Every form of rationalization to justify what we call 'our rights', in stark opposition to the self-evident truths that were part of the founding of our nation, with the words "all are created equal."