The only antidote, I know, is for Conservatives to make a concerted effort to get the public to react with contempt whenever the Left plays the "hate" and "bigotry" cards. (See, for example, How To Identify The Bigot In The Argument.) When a political candidate caters to this sort of perversion, by denouncing Conservatives as "homophobic," he needs to be intellectually dissected; his hide needs to be dried on the intellectual barn side.
So long as we apologize for not accepting the unacceptable, we are never going to stop the deterioration in our people's values; never reverse the trend that is taking away our ability to control the future course of our own Society.
William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site