We have no national health plan, and we aren't even close to balancing our budget or reducing the federal deficit. Battered women's shelters can't be built or funded quickly enough, and more money is being spent on cocaine than on cleaning up the environment. Every single day, all over the world, children are dying of starvation. They are wrangling over the wording of not one, but two public prayer amendments. Talk about fiddling while Rome burns.
Tolerance is a funny thing.
Like a lot of good things, it has a price tag. As a rule, freethinkers do not tend to band together in fervently committed groups, fighting passionately for emotionally charged causes. Compare that to a Jehovah's Witness. In fact, the only issue I can think of that all freethinkers agree on is the separation issue. Other than that, we're truly a mixed bag.