Bottom line, I don't buy into your doomsday scenario that tolerance leads to perversion and culural decay. In my opinion, if you're a 'culture warrior' who pursues morality legislation (inviting the government into matters where liberty should trump), you are part of the problem with modern-day conservatism, in my book, and are causing the decay in liberties and freedoms.
Well, simple observation would back my contention. Do you think there’s any chance of San Francisco becoming fiscally conservative anytime soon? Is “tolerant” Sweden going to ween itself from the nanny state? Is Canada, where social conservatives are outcasts, going to abolish national health care?
Has “tolerance” of homosexuality led to more government or less? It’s led to more, of course. In return for “liberating” homosexuals from those insidious sodomy laws, we now have laws banning private businesses from discriminating against homosexuals. We have laws forcing landlords to rent to them. We have forced homosexual indoctrination of our kids in the schools. We have private organizations being forced to change their moral beliefs to those of the state or risk being punished. We have nominees to government posts raked over the coals for refusing to expose their small children to homosexuality. We have speech codes and hate crime laws. We have private businesses being forced to provide services to homosexual “couples”.
In ther words, we have ten times as much government as we would have had if we had kept homosexuality closeted in the first place. Social liberalism (libertarianism) is just a form of soma, bread and circuses to the ignorant masses so they’ll capitulate all their most important rights (free speech, right to self government, property rights, religious liberty) to the state.