Subject: RE: BS: When does tolerance become endorsement?
From: dick greenhaus - PM
Date: 02 Sep 07 - 05:49 PM

Bee-dubya-ell -
If the government tolerates all the things that you say you do, it effectively endorses and legitimatizes them.

The government tolerates people flying Confederate battle flags in their own front yards. To ban them would be a violation of free speech. But the government has banned flying Confederate battle flags in most public places. To allow that would amount to giving free speech to those who regard the flag as a positive symbol at the expense of those who regard it negatively.

So, I don't see how one could say that government tolerance of the private display of rebel flags constitutes endorsement when public display is banned. I'd say there's a pretty clear line drawn between tolerance and endorsement in this case.