One more thought - then I guess you’d call me a “dogmatist”, since I was arguing with him.
What do you mean by a dogmatist?
A dogmatist is someone who holds a specific ideological view as an absolute, and doesn't tolerate a divergent or dissenting viewpoint.
FR Example: if someone firmly believed that gays cannot be conservatives AT ALL, that is fine and it doesn't make them a dogmatist - it's a perfectly valid position to make.
If that person went one step further and refused to even debate the issue with someone who didn't agree, and they either complained to the Mods or descended into verbal abuse, then the evidence would suggest that that person is a dogmatist.
I'm a dogmatist myself in more than one respect but for now, I'll only give one example: I don't consider a "debate" to be a "debate" unless there's a variation of opinion being discussed.
The interesting debates in English politics are ALL in the Conservative camp. That is why, if someone tells me they're a Conservative AND they want to "debate", they better act like it! If they proceed to shout out any different opinions that they don't want to hear, like some whiny left-wing prole, I'll call them on it. Shutting down legitimate right wing debate is the sort of thing Commies do. It is as ANTI-CONSERVATIVE as saying Obama's the best thing that happened to America, or saying there's such a thing as gay marriage. That's my dogma.