Conservatism really needs to understand the reality of child sex abuse, how devastating it is and how long it takes to recover (especially when society tells them "that's it; you're gay; it's all over for you").
Conservatives need to start fighting for the victims of child sex abuse with compassion instead of kicking them to the curb.
Conservatives should be fighting against the insane bills like the one signed into law by Governor Christie of New Jersey that forbid therapy for "gay" children who do not wish to be "gay", even those children who may have developed this idea because they were molested in early childhood by an older child or an adult.
If conservatives would do those things, there would be a lot fewer adult homosexuals.
It is not an "endorsement" of homosexuality to develop compassion and hold out the promise of redemption to the adult victims of child sex abuse who have not yet found the supportive place in which to try to come to terms with what was done to them.
For "conservatives" to reject them out of hand because they are still acting out their homosexual victimization in adulthood and have had no place to find healing (as long as the acting out is with other consenting adults) is no credit to conservatism.
There is a great deal to what you say.
Though as I mentioned too in an earlier post, that were he not trading on his homosexuality, he most likely would not be nearly as widely known.
There is a distinct difference in these two frames.