I don't think "tolerance" in the sense it's being bandied about here, or in the protest lines will get us anywhere.  

The term has been way over used....it's used to hit people over the head with.

"Let me beat you with my claims that you're intolerant"!

That's it.

What's needed is costly charity and even more costly humility. 

But the blog world and the world of politics don't really know what love is..because they reject God as its source and Jesus as its model (that is, a model for us to die to ourselves out of love for God, in service to all). 

If they believe in love...the think it comes from their goodness. 

And the world is far less interested in humility.

Humility demands moments of....humiliation.  

Not with our self-esteem.   No, thank you.  We don't do real humility.

So instead the focus is on softer and more flexible (like a billy club or blackjack) words like "tolerance".