Ounce upon a time our great party stood for broad themes of individual and economic freedoms. If we have gotten to the situation that the party's existence depends on this issue, we have already lost.
If they could shut the hell up about what they do in their bedrooms, you might have a point.
“If we have gotten to the situation that the party’s existence depends on this issue, we have already lost.”
If homosexuals were content to shut up about their sexual proclivities and vote like conservatives, there would be no issue.
As it stands, they are not content to just be conservatives, but want to be issue-oriented activists within the party - specifically about an issue that will have huge implications for our, “individual and economic freedoms”.
BTTT
Exactly.
I do not understand where the sense is in shutting anyone out of conservatism. It’s about small government and liberty. Not burning gays at the stake.
We should invite gays into the movement. They are not stupid people, and many of them would likely be conservatives if there weren’t this assumption that we hate gays. (Which apparently, some on FR do.)
We should have a new message to gays: we oppose gay marriage on Constitutional grounds. We do not hate you, and you don’t need to hate us.
No one has to approve of what they do on their own time, but they’re still people, and we’re all equal in this country.
Individual freedom means the freedom to not hire a homosexual for your daycare if you don’t want to, to not rent your spare bedroom to a homosexual if you don’t want to, to not have homosexual propaganda and recruitment in the public schools, to not have to attend homosexual “sensitivity training” in various organizations, schools, and agencies.
The homosexual agenda is the exact opposite of individual freedom.