15 things that prove that Mr. Rogers may have been the Mahatma Gandhi of North America.

I always made fun of Mr. Rogers when I was in my 20's.

God I was a tool.

This is my favorite one of the fifteen:

5. He might have been the most tolerant American ever. Mister Rogers seems to have been almost exactly the same off-screen as he was onscreen. As an ordained Presbyterian minister, and a man of tremendous faith, Mister Rogers preached tolerance first.
Whenever he was asked to castigate non-Christians or gays for their differing beliefs, he would instead face them and say, with sincerity, "God loves you just the way you are." Often this provoked ire from fundamentalists.