Tolerance or Compromise?

Yesterday, I participated in an ecumenical service at a prominent church. As we processed in, the local priest in charge of the service informed us that because the imam who was part of the service wouldn't bow to the altar, we were not to bow either.

I found this unduly accommodating to the imam. Would the local mosque have been so tolerant of our Christian sensibilities? For that matter, non-Christian speakers at funerals in my own church have never objected to bowing to the altar. --J. Douglas Ousley