This may surprise some people.
I am becoming increasingly aware of gay conservatives – and frankly I appreciate them. Not entirely easy to articulate exactly why.
I first noticed Charles Winecoff via Big Hollywood. Excellent articles. Intelligent. Rational. Willing to expose question and critique the rhetoric and behavior of liberalism in general and the gay community in particular. Interestingly most of the “rabid right wing conservatives” who respond to his writings leave comments that are grateful and respectful.
(Charles graciously added me as a friend on Facebook. Thank you! His recent and powerful article on “Bigotry of the Obamatrons” has strangely disappeared and I have contacted Big Hollywood to find out why.)
I had previous regarded “gay Republicans” with some suspicion. Stealth Democrats trying to undermine the Republican party from within? But despite the pressure they must feel from more socially conservative Republicans nevertheless they persist in defending core Republican/conservative principles and in criticizing the leftist-statist policies of the Obama Administration.
There will be legitimate(?) disagreements between social-religious conservatives and political-economic conservatives. (And of course there are many who are socially-religiously as well as politically-economically conservative.) What about elective abortion and same-sex marriage? Frankly I do not support these. But with the election of President Obama and the ascendancy of the Democrat controlled Congress the stakes have become too high.
Freedom is at stake. Prosperity is at stake. Security is at stake. The future of our nation is at stake.
Others may disagree with me and that is fine – but I am willing to set aside the social issues in order to unite around political-economic issues. Which means we need to include and even embrace gay conservatives as much as possible. Even if we continue to “agree to disagree” on at least some social issues.
(For the record I think the Log Cabin Republicans are wrong about the marriage amendment in California. And extremely wrong about “hate crimes” legislation. Which is why I am more sympathetic to the newly formed organization GoProud. Their contact and former Log Cabin political director Christopher Barron said,
Essentially, there’s no voice for gay Republicans or gay conservatives in particular in D.C. right now. Log Cabin has been completely and totally absent here in D.C. for months and months. It has simply moved way too far to the left and is basically indistinguishable from any other gay left organization.
Visit also Gay Patriot when you have a chance. Solid stuff.)
By the way – why does it seem there are no lesbian conservatives?
