“Everyone has to live with and possibly listen to people who see the world differently”

Emma Green, assistant managing editor for The Atlantic, believes it is insufficient to see “steadily increasing support for gay marriage” when “attitudes toward gay sex don't seem to have changed much at all.”

She offered a solution she must not have regarded as ironic: “Everyone has to live with and possibly listen to people who see the world differently.”

Ah, but she didn’t mean anyone should live with and possibly listen to those who see the world differently from her:

Everyone has to live with and possibly listen to people who see the world differently—and, for that matter, have sex in different ways. This seems most important in the sphere of politics, in which pluralism is mostly about rights and peaceful coexistence. But there's a deeper kind of tolerance that seems like it may still be long in coming for gay Americans, one in which sexuality isn't framed in terms of sin—just as another way of being.

One-way tolerance isn’t really tolerance.