Ron Coleman: "Anti-Gay", Rights, Wrongs, and Everything in Between
Ron Coleman wrote a interesting post today on the issue of gay rights, as it relates to current GOP soul-searching in the aftermath of the 2008 election. It's partly a reaction to this post by Glenn Reynolds.
Read the whole thing, but here's the gist of it:
Don’t call me anti-gay because I refuse to cede the basic right to call a radical shift in meaning, morals and law what it is when evaluating it as a prospective policy. Don’t tell me that you’re defriending me because I refuse to hop on the PC bandwagon and pretend that black is not only white, but never was anything but, and that democracy has nothing to say about how this change in policy must come about.
Don’t tell me on the one hand that Sarah Palin represents the know-nothing wing within conservatism, and that to survive politically we have to nonetheless know nothing, say nothing and see nothing about a politically-orchestrated campaign to corner the moral market, as was attempted with less success on abortion, on a controversial topic that is controversial, that is entitled to controversy and about which reasonable men of every inclination are entitled to disagree.
Exit question: If the GOP is really "anti-gay" (as opposed to being against gay marriage), what are we to make of the Log Cabin Republicans?






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