> Can one still be a conservative and support gay marriage?
No.
At least not one that can render a reason.
That would be a Libertarian.
You CAN be conservative and think gay marriage is toothpaste out of the tube thst isn’t going back in. I truly believe in a free constitutional republic and want it back. I would lay down my life for it so my children can live in freedom, with a weaker, more representational government. Thus I am a conservative.
But gay marriage as an issue is over.
The good news about the other social issue that distracts us, abortion, is that as I predicted, the rates are going down down down. Among all races. This is excellent news. I believe that more than activists, ultrasound technology, growing better and better, has done the work of Gd. Tech can be used for good! It used to be, 20 years ago, that even at 6 weeks pregnant, the heartbeat was heart to find. Now within days after 5 weeks, the heartbeat is SEEN. it’s pretty powerful. You can’t tell a young girl that it’s just a ball of cells when she sees her baby’s heartbeat.
We would do better as a party or voting bloc if we dropped both issues as neither of them are a President’s duty. We need to stop allowing lefty media schmucks to shoehorn us into litmus tests. Don’t worry about how your candidate feels on those issues. (Though anyone feeling as cruel as Obama should get thrown out on his butt: not allowing babies who survive abortion to live.)
Anyway, there are gay people who feel as I do too, and I’m happy to have their votes against socialism.