Written By phoneboy
2010-10-04T13:56:00Z
This message gets to the heart of something very important. The conservative right likes to wrap itself in the flag and paint opposition to its values as un-patriotic and un-American. But tolerance is also an American value. And what is more craven than the fear that the American way of life will be undermined by the exercise of such a value -- by our welcoming of difference, our openness to that which threatens us?
via salon.com
Whoever came up with this is absolutely spot-on.