Of course you can be involved in pre-marital sex or adultery and still be conservative. But if you join a free-love movement dedicated to using government power to make society embrace premarital sex and adultery(even more) you aren't conservative. You can be a conservative porn addict, but you can't found GOPornloversforselfabuse and still expect conservatives to treat you as a comrade.
It's astonishing that this simple distinction is so hard for so many people to grasp.
Most of the conservative movement is composed of sexual sinners because it is composed entirely of human beings. We are all sinners and nothing exposes human weakness more than our sexuality. But that, of course, is beside the point.
Of course you can be involved in pre-marital sex or adultery and still be conservative. But if you join a free-love movement dedicated to using government power to make society embrace premarital sex and adultery(even more) you aren't conservative. You can be a conservative porn addict, but you can't found GOPornloversforselfabuse and still expect conservatives to treat you as a comrade.
It's astonishing that this simple distinction is so hard for so many people to grasp.
I am willing to accept the proposition that one cannot be a political activist for Gay issues AND be a conservative, because you are fighting against the values most conservatives wish to “conserve”.
I reject the idea that one cannot be Gay and conservative, just as much as I reject the idea that one cannot cohabitate or engage in premarital sex and be a conservative (or a frequent self abuser, etc).
We are all sinners and sin is sin.
Sinners should be welcome in the GOP or it is going to be one lonely election day.
Advocation of sin as a political philosophy is not conservative and should have no place in the GOP platform.