There's been a lot of furor going around regarding this post. I don't think I want to comment on its particular subject matter.

I thank my lucky stars every day that I was born into an environment that I am, because it completely shaped who I am and I rather like my personality. I make no qualms nor do I try to cover up the fact that I am open-minded, I attempt to be as tolerant as possible and I am liberal. In my eyes, people are all okay until they open their mouths and can be judged. Skin color, religion, sexual orientation, lineage -- it's all good, it just matters what's between their ears.

The conflict in my mind, then, is if I'm purporting myself to be open-minded and tolerant, then how can I disapprove of closed-minded and discriminatory people? How can I look down on them and tell them they're being inferior, they're being judgmental when they don't have that right, they're not worthy to tell others they're wrong when I'm doing the same thing to them?

I may (and do) think that Howard Stern is the Antichrist of Radio and I wish he'd quit already and take all of his imitators with him, but I still recognize his right to be on the air and entertain the masses. So how come when someone says they think that being gay is wrong or abortion is murder or I'm going to hell because I'm not Christian, why do I immediately think that they're wrong and shouldn't be allowed to tell me what they're telling me?