THE NEW TOLERANCE: “Two California lawmakers who called the San Francisco archbishop’s morality clauses discriminatory are asking for a probe of working conditions at four San Francisco Bay Area Catholic high schools.”

Democratic Assemblymen Phil Ting of San Francisco and Kevin Mullin of San Mateo say the clauses set a dangerous precedent for workers’ rights. . . .

The lawmakers asked the archbishop to remove the “divisive and discriminatory” clauses from a teachers’ handbook. . . .

The clauses outline the church’s teaching that sex outside of marriage, homosexual relations, abortion, masturbation and the viewing of pornography are “gravely evil.”

Can’t we just come out and say that the only acceptable expression of ethical ideals is of the leftist sort, and that all others shall be condemned as unlawful heresy? Let’s just be honest with ourselves that the phrase “divisive and discriminatory” as used above is a euphemism for “heretical.”