Consider the Supreme Court's decision in June disallowing school-sanctioned prayers at football games. It hasn't stopped some schools, particularly in the South, from having unofficial prayers before the kickoff. Churches and students have even promoted such efforts. In the labeling game, you can be deemed un-Christian if you oppose praying at football games, intolerant if you approve of it. Or consider the Vatican's statement last month saying that the Catholic Church is necessary for salvation.
Traditionalists insist it's restating what the church has always maintained.
Facing off like hockey players with raised sticks. To be fair, differences in beliefs are natural and can be healthy. Sometimes challenging a belief or opinion can lead to clearer thinking or a change of mind. At other times, holding to what one believes is right, even when everyone else is in opposition, is the only honest approach. Truths, after all, are never a matter of compromise and consensus but of conviction.