Conservatism would always have to be “relative” for active homosexuals. It would be virtually impossible for them to be of a single mind about how they are living, at the least. Questions would darkly hang.
Questions darkly hang about everyone who is not a three-leg economic-security-social conservative, which unfortunately is about 80% of the electorate.
When you explicitly exclude gays, or go on the basis of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’, you embark necessarily on witchhunts and hypocrisy and contradictions on your own concepts of personal freedom.