Acceptance vs. Encouragement

I am wondering if the words "acceptance" and "encouragement" have become synonyms. Nowadays many people have been brought to accept certain behaviors, attitudes and situations - although they don't believe them to be totally "good" - as a sign of flexibility and open-mindedness. But what is happening now goes far beyond acceptance, it is becoming "encouragement" to cross the line of dignity and respectability by showing, displaying, talking about such extreme self-expressions and manifestations everywhere, all the time.  Am I making any sense or am I living in an obsolete, "La La" plane of reality?