With the Great Sorba Issue, it is now time, I guess, for all of us conservatives to lay out our views not so much on homosexuality as a thing, but on the place homosexuality can have within the conservative movement.
At bottom, the Reagan Condition is correct: if you’re 80% with me, then I’m going keep with the 80%. Of course, homosexuality is a bit different than, say, someone disagreeing with you on the worth of federal funding for the art.
The left embraces homosexual activist groups simply because they view such as yet more acid to pour upon traditional morality. The utter contempt we routinely see of homosexuals, themselves, tells the true story of leftist attitudes. This isn’t about being anti-gay but, rather, about being anti-human. Anyone who can advocate for “abortion rights” is not someone who can then turn around and show genuine respect for people. All is political on the left – as is best demonstrated by the vile hatred which will directed against any homosexual (or black, or woman, or other selected group) who strays from the leftist path.
The right has tended to reject homosexual activists because most conservatives are strongly Christian in outlook. It has been difficult to separate out the person from the act – and doing this separation was not helped by some overt acts by homosexuals (it was a terrible thing – and entirely unjustified under any circumstances whatsoever – when Christians were pelted by condoms as they left Church. It didn’t help matters at all when some gay activists would enter a Catholic Church and desecrate the Blessed Sacrament). But as time has gone on the old poisons have faded – and the growth of conservative homosexual groups and individuals has broken down a lot of barriers.
I don’t think that anyone can say how conservatism and homosexuality should approach each other. It remains difficult to bring the right and homosexual groups together. Accepting individual homosexual conservatives is a lot easier. Treating all people, regardless of status, with love and respect is a requirement. At bottom, it is only a people with strong morals and a clear, Judeo-Christian outlook which can afford homosexuals essential tolerance.
For me, it is a matter of refusing absolutely to hate anyone; an understanding that I have no cause to act high and mighty as regards morality. And a determination, at this moment, that the defense of liberty trumps all.
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