Now more powerful than ever to bully the income, savings and bank accounts of average citizens, the Congress led by the leftists just made the IRS bigger than the Pentagon, Border Patrol and the hyper-politicized FBI combined. If that doesn’t beef up bullying enough, the “woke” side of the bully is back to bash the God -ordained definition of marriage yet again. The bullies of tolerance demand that their man-made definition be codified into federal law. They can’t tolerate God’s definition. The opposite sex arrangement by God is just too traditional, but isn’t a couple traditional too? Why not tolerate a “throuple?”

Without God, why limit marriage to just two anyway? It kicks diversity, equity and inclusion in the teeth for those who want more than two and it rules out those who don’t identify as homosexual or heterosexual. How inclusive is it to bisexuals who may prefer more than just one partner? What about pansexuals, metrosexuals, or “whateversexuals” or is diversity just Orwellian code language for conformity, inclusion code for exclusion and equity code for partiality?

A woman working at a college was told by her superiors to tolerate and accommodate a man who identifies as a female in the women’s restroom. Expressing how it makes her uncomfortable, she was directed to use a restroom in another building. The bullies call this equity.

Bullies of tolerance quash questions, squelch debate and silence other points of view. They only allow acceptable speech, not free speech. Any speech not in agreement with their speech is deemed hate speech. Bullies of tolerance aren’t about openness (as they claim), but about their-way- or-the-highway (as they deny). If the bullies of tolerance define marriage, it means man, not God, controls it. However, if man is absolutely in charge of the definition, what definition is absolutely off the table? Anything is permissible under the bully’s crafty tool of tolerance.

As with marriage, the bullies make up their own definition of tolerance. It’s not enough to let them have their say and hear them out. You must approve of and submit to their position in order to be considered tolerant. Otherwise, you are an intolerant hater. Standing up to the bullies of tolerance is almost always met with the same small-minded pejoratives of racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, transphobe, fascist and Nazi (as they claim not to judge people). In a hypocritical spirit of phony tolerance, they ditch the light of truth in condescending deference to their dark insidious ideology for society’s unsuspecting saps to witlessly swallow whole. If you haven’t noticed yet, the bullies of tolerance are today’s authoritarians.

There’s been a staggering vacuum of authority, but the bullies rush in to fill it with their brand of authoritarianism in the prostituted name of tolerance. Authority is a must, but not their debauched kind.

The great preacher of England of the last century Martin Lloyd Jones said, “There can be no doubt whatsoever that all the troubles of the church today, and most of the troubles in the world, are due to the departure of the authority of the Bible.” Then, and timely for today, he also said, “All the trouble in the world today is due to the fact that man is not right with God, for it is because he is not right with God that he has gone wrong everywhere else.” Everywhere else includes tolerance distorted by the bullies.

The Rev. Mel McGinnis is a Kiantone resident.