In other words, Clark is forbidden from deterring her child from homosexual behavior or to speak disapprovingly of the homosexual lifestyle. Presumably she would be in violation if she gave the child a Bible or allowed her to attend a Sunday school class or any other meeting in which homosexuality was unfavorably discussed.

 This is reminiscent of a bill the California legislature passed last year -- AB 2651 (also discussed in my book) -- in which foster children could have reported their foster parents for a civil-rights violation if they refused to allow them to dress like a member of the opposite sex. This bill, among other things, would also have established a toll-free telephone number for social workers to provide to foster children to encourage them to report "physical, sexual or emotion abuse," including incidents concerning their "sexual orientation or gender identity."

 Admittedly, Governor Gray Davis vetoed the bill, presumably because he was in a tough re-election campaign. But in 2003, a different version of the bill was introduced. The proponents of these measures are not to be denied.

 These cases reveal the tolerance agenda for the fraud that it is. There is nothing about the California legislation that is tolerant toward Christian foster parents. Indeed, it is demonstrably intolerant toward them.

 Nor is there anything about Judge Coughlin's order forbidding "homophobic" teaching that is remotely tolerant toward Clark. To the secular elite, tolerance isn't treating other people with civility and decency. It is the compulsory abandonment of certain values that the elite finds unacceptable. It requires you to violate your conscience. Your First Amendment freedoms of religion and speech mean nothing if you run afoul of the dogma.

 As attorney Mathew D. Staver, of Liberty Counsel noted, courts cannot "give parents a no-win decision of either abandoning their Christian beliefs or abandoning their children. … It takes no stretch of the imagination to envision a judge finding the mother in contempt of court for merely teaching her daughter the Biblical truths on homosexuality."

 I shudder at the prospect that so many unsuspecting people are buying into the lie that we are not engaged in a culture war, that the forces seeking to undermine Judeo-Christian values are aided by such naivete and that our entire library of liberties ultimately hangs in the balance.