I checked out your profile (nice) and find I agree with maybe 95% of what you say there. Surely there is a conservative candidate still in the running who also goes along with most of it.
Well, people can and DO carry poison. I’ve done it personally. The point of speaking of it that way, is once one realizes that one is only carrying poison, and need not be poison, one can more confidently set the poison down and walk away. And be more hopeful about other people who are presently carrying poison.
People’s attitudes do often change slowly, if they change. But they can also change rapidly under the right conditions.
I want to see if Trump grows on the Kim Davis issue. Somehow to talk as though the “gay marriage” thing is a fait accompli, is a self fulfilling prophecy to the ill. Trump knows what trouble it has caused, if he will be halfway honest about it. America is not Canada The Lukewarm after all. Even to confess he could do nothing but that the American people, if they desire, could embrace a solution like a constitutional amendment, would be better than sticking in the mud.