Can You Be Gay and Christian? Unrstandg the Debate — Tom Talks

Contents:

• MY EXPERIENCE AS A GAY CONSERVATIVE
• CAN YOU BE A NSERVATIVE GAY?
• CAN YOU BE GAY AND NSERVATIVE OR IS AN OXYMORON?
• GAY CONSERVATIV: CAN THEY BE CONSERVATIVE?WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A NEW GAY NSERVATIVE GROUP FDS SELF A ROOM FULL OF NSPIRACY-SPEWG WGNUTS? JOHN AVLON WNS A DANGERO CULTURE CLASH.JOHN AVLONUPDATED JUL. 14, 2017 7:01PM EDT / PUBLISHED SEP. 18, 2010 4:42PM EDT A PARTICIPANT WAV A FLAG DURG A GAY RIGHTS MONSTRATN WASHGTON, D.C. (MOLLY RILEY / RTERS)GAY MARRIAGE IS “A STATE SANCTN OF SFUL BEHAVR” AND HOMOSEXUALY “A SFUL AND SOCIALLY STCTIVE LIFTYLE”—ACRDG TO THE THOR OF THE TEA PARTY MANIFTO AND FOUNR OF WORLDNETDAILY, JOE FARAH.THE OCSN FOR HIS OPG WAS THE FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHT OF WND’S UN-IRONILLY NAMED “ TAKG AMERI BACK” NFERENCE MIAMI—A BATE BETWEEN FARAH AND CHRISTOPHER BARRON, THE -FOUNR AND CHAIRMAN OF GOPROUD, A NEW GAY NSERVATIVE ANIZATN. 
 THE BATTLE L HAD BEEN DRAWN THIS SUMMER WHEN FARAH ANNOUNCED HE WAS DISVG ANN COULTER OM SPEAKG AT HIS NFERENCE BEE OF HER CISN TO EMCEE GOPROUD’S “HOMOCON” FUNDRAISER NEW YORK LATER THIS MONTH. (FULL DISCLOSURE: MY WIFE, MARGARET HOOVER, IS ON THE ADVISORY UNCIL OF GOPROUD.)TECHNILLY, THE TOPIC OF BATE WAS “IS GOPROUD CONSERVATIVE?” BUT THE UNRLYG ISSUE WAS WHETHER GAYS ULD BE NSERVATIVE AT ALL. AT A TIME WHEN THE GAY CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT HAS BEE MASTREAM ENOUGH TO BE A SUBJECT OF BATE WH THE NSERVATIVE MOVEMENT—AND THE TEA PARTY IS TRYG TO RENCILE S LIBERTARIAN PROMIS WH SOCIAL NSERVATIVE STANDARD—BEARERS LIKE CHRISTE O’DONNELL—THIS WAS A BATE WH WIR IMPLITNS THAN THE 250 PEOPLE WHO WNSED . 
 WORLDNEWSDAILY—ALSO KNOWN AS WORLDNUTDAILY TO S TRACTORS—IS A MAJOR ONLE SOURCE OF “NEWS” TO RIGHT-WG TALK-RAD HOSTS AND ASSORTED NSERVATIVE NSPIRACY THEORISTS. FARAH, A VETERAN JOURNALIST WHO FIRST MA HIS NAME PHG ANTI-CLTON EFFORTS—CLUDG SERIAL VTIGATNS TO THE ATH OF VCENT FOSTER (WHICH WERE CED BY O’DONNELL TERVIEWS AT THE )—HAS BEEN A FULL-FLEDGED NSPIRACY ENTREPRENR WHEN TO THE OBAMA ADMISTRATN. THE WHE-HAIRED AND BLACK-MTACHED FARAH HAS FUND “WHERE’S THE BIRTH CERTIFITE?” BILLBOARDS ACROSS THE U.S., AND THE PROLIFIC WND PRS’ NEWT BOOK IS THE MANCHURIAN PRINT—A TYPILLY TONED TLE. TO S FENRS, WND IS A SEEKER OF NSERVATIVE TTH A LIBERAL MASTREAM MEDIA WORLD. IN REARCHG MY BOOK, WGNUTS, WHICH FEATUR A PROFILE OF FARAH, WHENEVER I ASKED PEOPLE WHO BELIEVED FEMA NCENTRATN MPS AND ONG MARTIAL LAW WHERE THEY GOT THEIR “NEWS,” THEY VARIABLY SAID “WND.” 
 • JOHN BATCHELOR: GGRICH IS THE GOP’S FAT ELVIS FOR BARRON AND GOPROUD, THIS WAS A VENTURE TO THE LN’S N. FOR EXAMPLE, A 10-FOOT-HIGH BANNER BY THE NFERENCE ENTRANCE PROMOTED ONE OF WND’S RISG STARS, MOLOTOV MCHELL, A SELF-SCRIBED CHRISTIAN ZEALOT WHO B HARDRE WH HATE WEEKLY VIO MISSIV (YOU KNOW, FOR THE KIDS). AMONG HIS MOST NOTOR OFFERGS WAS A FENSE OF UGANDA’S PROPOSED ATH-PENALTY FOR GAYS ON BIBLIL GROUNDS. IT IS SIMPLY ONE OF THE UGLIT AND MOST SISTER DIATRIB I’VE EVER SEEN ON THE INTER. 
 “I DON’T RE IF YOU ARE NSERVATIVE ON 999 ISSU OUT OF 1,000—IF YOU TAKE THE POSN THAT MEN N MARRY MEN, OR WOMEN N MARRY WOMEN, YOU’RE NOT A NSERVATIVE.” BARRON HAD THE GUTS TO ENGAGE THIS SEEMGLY NO-W BATE. HIS RE PCH TO THE DIENCE WAS SOLIDARY ON THE ISSU. CG GOPROUD’S LIST OF POLICY PRRI, CLUDG TAX CUTS, REPEALG HEALTH-RE REFORM, SOCIAL-SECURY REFORM, AND A NEO-NSERVATIVE FENSE FOR THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR, BARRON ARGUED FOR A VISN OF NSERVATISM THAT DIDN’T EXCLU PEOPLE ON THE BASIS OF SEXUAL ORIENTATN. ON THE HOT-BUTTON ISSU OF GAYS THE ARY AND MARRIAGE EQUALY, BARRON—WHO IS AN AIR FORCE VETERAN AND MARRIED—ARGUED THAT NSISTENT APPLITNS OF EQUALY AND DIVIDUAL EEDOM WOULD HELP ENSURE THE LONG-TERM STABILY OF AMERIN SOCIETY. BARRON OFFERED THE EXAMPLE OF DICK CHENEY AS A NSERVATIVE WHO FAVORS MARRIAGE EQUALY, AND CED RH LIMBGH’S SUPPORT FOR CIVIL UNNS AS A WAY OF MAKG THE SE THAT GOPROUD WAS ED A NSERVATIVE ANIZATN. (FARAH, AN OLD ALLY OF LIMBGH, SNIFFED THAT HE WAS “DISAPPOTED” WH RH’S POSN AND LLED HIM “ILL-RMED” ON THE ISSUE.) 
 BUT FARAH WASN’T BUYG ANY OF THE BIG-TENT PCH, CG THE ULTIMATE PRIMARY SOURCE AS JTIFITN FOR HIS FUNDAMENTALIST POSN. “THERE IS NO MIDDLE GROUND—EHER YOU BELIEVE THE BIBLE OR YOU DON’T,” HE SAID. “I DON’T RE IF YOU ARE NSERVATIVE ON 999 ISSU OUT OF 1,000—IF YOU TAKE THE POSN THAT MEN N MARRY MEN, OR WOMEN N MARRY WOMEN, YOU’RE NOT A NSERVATIVE.”THE THREAT OF GAYS GENERAL, AND GOPROUD PARTICULAR, WAS NOTHG LS THAN EXISTENTIAL FARAH’S VIEW. “WTERN CIVILIZATN, MON SENSE, JUO-CHRISTIAN MORALY AND THE VERY FNS OF THE WORDS 'NSERVATIVE' AND 'MARRIAGE'…ARE UNR ATTACK BY MY OPPONENT,” HE SAID. “THE NSERVATIVE MOVEMENT HAS BEEN FILTRATED BY HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS LIKE CHRISTOPHER BARRON." THE LANGUAGE OF URGENT EXISTENTIAL CRISIS, AMERIN CULTURE CLE AGAST THE SPECTER OF END TIM, IS STANDARD OPERATG PROCRE FOR MAGOGU WHO PROF OM THE PARANOID STYLE AMERIN POLICS. THE IA OF AN SID FILTRATN STRAIGHT OUT OF COLD WAR MUNIST NSPIRACI, BUT NOW IS DIRECTED AGAST FELLOW NSERVATIV WHO ARE SEEN AS HERENTLY SPECT BEE OF THEIR SEXUALY. IT IS THE CRY OF TRADNALIST FUNDAMENTALISTS, BIBLIL LERALISTS FIXATED ON LEVIC, VOKG GOD’S LAW AS THEIR IOLOGIL TMP RD. THIS VISN OF AMERIN POLICS DO NOT ACCEPT SEPARATN OF CHURCH AND STATE. ASKG TO ACCEPT THE BIG TENT MIGHT BE A BRIDGE TOO FAR. 
 BUT BARRON N FD FORT THE FACT THAT HE IS ON THE RIGHT SI OF HISTORY. GROWG NUMBERS OF AMERINS ARE FORTABLE NOT ONLY WH GAY RIGHTS BUT MARRIAGE EQUALY. THE EVINCE OF NSERVATIVE LEGAL LEGEND TED OLSON FIGHTG TO OVERTURN PROPOSN 8, OR THE RECENT G OUT OF FORMER REPUBLIN NATNAL COMMTEE CHAIR KEN MEHLMAN, SHOWS AN EVOLUTN ON THIS ISSUE EVEN WH THE GOP. AND WHILE BOTH SOCIAL NSERVATIV AND LIBERAL ACTIVISTS MIGHT QUTN THE EXISTENCE OF GAY NSERVATIV, THEY REPRENT A GROWG DIVERSY OF OPN THAT UNRCUTS STEREOTYP. IT’S A SIGN OF PROGRS TOWARD FURTHER DIVIDUAL EEDOM. 
 BY AND LARGE, GRASSROOTS TEA PARTY ACTIVISTS HAVE RISTED THE WEDGE APPEAL OF GAY MARRIAGE, PREFERRG TO FOC ON FISL ISSU (THOUGH THAT DIDN’T STOP SHAMEFUL GAY-BAG THE MIKE CASTLE-O’DONNELL MPAIGN). PERHAPS THAT’S PART OF THE REASON WHY ATTENDANCE AT THE NFERENCE WAS FAR BELOW THE 1,500 PROMOTED, AND WHY POLICIANS LIKE MICHELE BACHMANN AND TOM TANCREDO KEPT THEIR DISTANCE SPE BEG ADVERTISED AS SPEAKERS. THE PETG VALUE VOTERS FOM OFFERED NNECTN TO GRASSROOTS SOCIAL NSERVATIV WHOUT THE SI-SHOT OF CULTURE WAR NSPIRACY.CONSERVATIVE POPULISTS ARE, BY FN, RISTANT TO CHANGE. AND THE RISE OF GAY CIVIL RIGHTS IS A SIGNIFINT SOCIETAL CHANGE. BUT IS THE RIGHT THG TO DO, NSISTENT WH THE EXPANSN OF DIVIDUAL EEDOM AND EQUALY THAT IS THE GOAL OF OUR SEARCH FOR A MORE PERFECT UNN. FARAH HAS HIS FOLLOWERS, BUT GOPROUD IS WNG THE LARGER BATE.JOHN AVLON'S NEW BOOK WGNUTS: HOW THE LUNATIC FRGE IS HIJACKG AMERI IS AVAILABLE NOW BY BEAST BOOKS BOTH ON THE WEB AND PAPERBACK. HE IS ALSO THE THOR OF INPENNT NATN: HOW CENTRISTS CAN CHANGE AMERIN POLICS AND A CNN NTRIBUTOR. PREVLY, HE SERVED AS CHIEF SPEECHWRER FOR NEW YORK CY MAYOR RUDY GIULIANI AND WAS A LUMNIST AND ASSOCIATE EDOR FOR THE NEW YORK SUN. JOHN AVLON
• THE ANTI-INTY POLICS OF GAY NSERVATIV
• CONSERVATIVE, REPUBLIN AND GAY
• TMP PRI: GAY REPUBLINS ON WHY THEY'RE BACKG THE PRINT
• CAN YOU BE GAY AND CHRISTIAN? UNRSTANDG THE DEBATE

MY EXPERIENCE AS A GAY CONSERVATIVE

Can I be gay and nservative? I asked this qutn on r/ askgaybros and the vrl wh which I was received was tly astoundg. ", "You need therapy for ternalised homophobia", and of urse the perfunctory "This is a troll; he's not gay".

CAN YOU BE A NSERVATIVE GAY?

I appreciate that not everyone generally aligned wh nservative valu supports gay marriage or even homosexualy as a whole. What the leftists don't like about me is that I don't ONLY see the world through the lense of inty and that I n turn the other cheek on the anti-gay sentiments favor of the many other nservative valu I am aligned wh. Can I be gay and nservative, or is this fundamentally ntradictory like liberals say?

This is why was pecially hard for me to e out as a gay nservative. That’s not to say that beg gay isn’t or shouldn’t be accepted as normal.

But beg gay tak an extra spirual and mental ‘step’ before knowg and acceptg who you are. I me out as gay almost two months ago. The 2016 electn occurred when I was a sophomore high school.

CAN YOU BE GAY AND NSERVATIVE OR IS AN OXYMORON?

Any nservative opn I did share wh a liberal stunt, teacher, or even the prcipal would lead to me beg lled racist, tolerant, or, ironilly, homophobic. Beg gay and nservative has allowed me to view both experienc om the same lens. As a closeted gay person, I was sred that people would thk I’m human, unnatural, or even “purposefully disgracg God.

The realy I’ve e to face as a gay nservative is that, while ’s harr to e out as gay, is socially ls acceptable to be nservative. Can you be a nservative gay? “The misnceptn that there are not gay nservativ, or gay Tmp supporters, is wildly accurate, ” Wtrich told PRIDE.

But we n’t ny that there are gay nservativ, and we need to stop dismissg them om the LGBTQ muny bee of their polics. Now, I have yet to wns an openly gay nservative advote for actively discrimatory polici agast those of a non-heterosexual sexualy.

GAY CONSERVATIV: CAN THEY BE CONSERVATIVE?WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A NEW GAY NSERVATIVE GROUP FDS SELF A ROOM FULL OF NSPIRACY-SPEWG WGNUTS? JOHN AVLON WNS A DANGERO CULTURE CLASH.JOHN AVLONUPDATED JUL. 14, 2017 7:01PM EDT / PUBLISHED SEP. 18, 2010 4:42PM EDT A PARTICIPANT WAV A FLAG DURG A GAY RIGHTS MONSTRATN WASHGTON, D.C. (MOLLY RILEY / RTERS)GAY MARRIAGE IS “A STATE SANCTN OF SFUL BEHAVR” AND HOMOSEXUALY “A SFUL AND SOCIALLY STCTIVE LIFTYLE”—ACRDG TO THE THOR OF THE TEA PARTY MANIFTO AND FOUNR OF WORLDNETDAILY, JOE FARAH.THE OCSN FOR HIS OPG WAS THE FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHT OF WND’S UN-IRONILLY NAMED “ TAKG AMERI BACK” NFERENCE MIAMI—A BATE BETWEEN FARAH AND CHRISTOPHER BARRON, THE -FOUNR AND CHAIRMAN OF GOPROUD, A NEW GAY NSERVATIVE ANIZATN. 
 THE BATTLE L HAD BEEN DRAWN THIS SUMMER WHEN FARAH ANNOUNCED HE WAS DISVG ANN COULTER OM SPEAKG AT HIS NFERENCE BEE OF HER CISN TO EMCEE GOPROUD’S “HOMOCON” FUNDRAISER NEW YORK LATER THIS MONTH. (FULL DISCLOSURE: MY WIFE, MARGARET HOOVER, IS ON THE ADVISORY UNCIL OF GOPROUD.)TECHNILLY, THE TOPIC OF BATE WAS “IS GOPROUD CONSERVATIVE?” BUT THE UNRLYG ISSUE WAS WHETHER GAYS ULD BE NSERVATIVE AT ALL. AT A TIME WHEN THE GAY CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT HAS BEE MASTREAM ENOUGH TO BE A SUBJECT OF BATE WH THE NSERVATIVE MOVEMENT—AND THE TEA PARTY IS TRYG TO RENCILE S LIBERTARIAN PROMIS WH SOCIAL NSERVATIVE STANDARD—BEARERS LIKE CHRISTE O’DONNELL—THIS WAS A BATE WH WIR IMPLITNS THAN THE 250 PEOPLE WHO WNSED . 
 WORLDNEWSDAILY—ALSO KNOWN AS WORLDNUTDAILY TO S TRACTORS—IS A MAJOR ONLE SOURCE OF “NEWS” TO RIGHT-WG TALK-RAD HOSTS AND ASSORTED NSERVATIVE NSPIRACY THEORISTS. FARAH, A VETERAN JOURNALIST WHO FIRST MA HIS NAME PHG ANTI-CLTON EFFORTS—CLUDG SERIAL VTIGATNS TO THE ATH OF VCENT FOSTER (WHICH WERE CED BY O’DONNELL TERVIEWS AT THE )—HAS BEEN A FULL-FLEDGED NSPIRACY ENTREPRENR WHEN TO THE OBAMA ADMISTRATN. THE WHE-HAIRED AND BLACK-MTACHED FARAH HAS FUND “WHERE’S THE BIRTH CERTIFITE?” BILLBOARDS ACROSS THE U.S., AND THE PROLIFIC WND PRS’ NEWT BOOK IS THE MANCHURIAN PRINT—A TYPILLY TONED TLE. TO S FENRS, WND IS A SEEKER OF NSERVATIVE TTH A LIBERAL MASTREAM MEDIA WORLD. IN REARCHG MY BOOK, WGNUTS, WHICH FEATUR A PROFILE OF FARAH, WHENEVER I ASKED PEOPLE WHO BELIEVED FEMA NCENTRATN MPS AND ONG MARTIAL LAW WHERE THEY GOT THEIR “NEWS,” THEY VARIABLY SAID “WND.” 
 • JOHN BATCHELOR: GGRICH IS THE GOP’S FAT ELVIS FOR BARRON AND GOPROUD, THIS WAS A VENTURE TO THE LN’S N. FOR EXAMPLE, A 10-FOOT-HIGH BANNER BY THE NFERENCE ENTRANCE PROMOTED ONE OF WND’S RISG STARS, MOLOTOV MCHELL, A SELF-SCRIBED CHRISTIAN ZEALOT WHO B HARDRE WH HATE WEEKLY VIO MISSIV (YOU KNOW, FOR THE KIDS). AMONG HIS MOST NOTOR OFFERGS WAS A FENSE OF UGANDA’S PROPOSED ATH-PENALTY FOR GAYS ON BIBLIL GROUNDS. IT IS SIMPLY ONE OF THE UGLIT AND MOST SISTER DIATRIB I’VE EVER SEEN ON THE INTER. 
 “I DON’T RE IF YOU ARE NSERVATIVE ON 999 ISSU OUT OF 1,000—IF YOU TAKE THE POSN THAT MEN N MARRY MEN, OR WOMEN N MARRY WOMEN, YOU’RE NOT A NSERVATIVE.” BARRON HAD THE GUTS TO ENGAGE THIS SEEMGLY NO-W BATE. HIS RE PCH TO THE DIENCE WAS SOLIDARY ON THE ISSU. CG GOPROUD’S LIST OF POLICY PRRI, CLUDG TAX CUTS, REPEALG HEALTH-RE REFORM, SOCIAL-SECURY REFORM, AND A NEO-NSERVATIVE FENSE FOR THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR, BARRON ARGUED FOR A VISN OF NSERVATISM THAT DIDN’T EXCLU PEOPLE ON THE BASIS OF SEXUAL ORIENTATN. ON THE HOT-BUTTON ISSU OF GAYS THE ARY AND MARRIAGE EQUALY, BARRON—WHO IS AN AIR FORCE VETERAN AND MARRIED—ARGUED THAT NSISTENT APPLITNS OF EQUALY AND DIVIDUAL EEDOM WOULD HELP ENSURE THE LONG-TERM STABILY OF AMERIN SOCIETY. BARRON OFFERED THE EXAMPLE OF DICK CHENEY AS A NSERVATIVE WHO FAVORS MARRIAGE EQUALY, AND CED RH LIMBGH’S SUPPORT FOR CIVIL UNNS AS A WAY OF MAKG THE SE THAT GOPROUD WAS ED A NSERVATIVE ANIZATN. (FARAH, AN OLD ALLY OF LIMBGH, SNIFFED THAT HE WAS “DISAPPOTED” WH RH’S POSN AND LLED HIM “ILL-RMED” ON THE ISSUE.) 
 BUT FARAH WASN’T BUYG ANY OF THE BIG-TENT PCH, CG THE ULTIMATE PRIMARY SOURCE AS JTIFITN FOR HIS FUNDAMENTALIST POSN. “THERE IS NO MIDDLE GROUND—EHER YOU BELIEVE THE BIBLE OR YOU DON’T,” HE SAID. “I DON’T RE IF YOU ARE NSERVATIVE ON 999 ISSU OUT OF 1,000—IF YOU TAKE THE POSN THAT MEN N MARRY MEN, OR WOMEN N MARRY WOMEN, YOU’RE NOT A NSERVATIVE.”THE THREAT OF GAYS GENERAL, AND GOPROUD PARTICULAR, WAS NOTHG LS THAN EXISTENTIAL FARAH’S VIEW. “WTERN CIVILIZATN, MON SENSE, JUO-CHRISTIAN MORALY AND THE VERY FNS OF THE WORDS 'NSERVATIVE' AND 'MARRIAGE'…ARE UNR ATTACK BY MY OPPONENT,” HE SAID. “THE NSERVATIVE MOVEMENT HAS BEEN FILTRATED BY HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS LIKE CHRISTOPHER BARRON." THE LANGUAGE OF URGENT EXISTENTIAL CRISIS, AMERIN CULTURE CLE AGAST THE SPECTER OF END TIM, IS STANDARD OPERATG PROCRE FOR MAGOGU WHO PROF OM THE PARANOID STYLE AMERIN POLICS. THE IA OF AN SID FILTRATN STRAIGHT OUT OF COLD WAR MUNIST NSPIRACI, BUT NOW IS DIRECTED AGAST FELLOW NSERVATIV WHO ARE SEEN AS HERENTLY SPECT BEE OF THEIR SEXUALY. IT IS THE CRY OF TRADNALIST FUNDAMENTALISTS, BIBLIL LERALISTS FIXATED ON LEVIC, VOKG GOD’S LAW AS THEIR IOLOGIL TMP RD. THIS VISN OF AMERIN POLICS DO NOT ACCEPT SEPARATN OF CHURCH AND STATE. ASKG TO ACCEPT THE BIG TENT MIGHT BE A BRIDGE TOO FAR. 
 BUT BARRON N FD FORT THE FACT THAT HE IS ON THE RIGHT SI OF HISTORY. GROWG NUMBERS OF AMERINS ARE FORTABLE NOT ONLY WH GAY RIGHTS BUT MARRIAGE EQUALY. THE EVINCE OF NSERVATIVE LEGAL LEGEND TED OLSON FIGHTG TO OVERTURN PROPOSN 8, OR THE RECENT G OUT OF FORMER REPUBLIN NATNAL COMMTEE CHAIR KEN MEHLMAN, SHOWS AN EVOLUTN ON THIS ISSUE EVEN WH THE GOP. AND WHILE BOTH SOCIAL NSERVATIV AND LIBERAL ACTIVISTS MIGHT QUTN THE EXISTENCE OF GAY NSERVATIV, THEY REPRENT A GROWG DIVERSY OF OPN THAT UNRCUTS STEREOTYP. IT’S A SIGN OF PROGRS TOWARD FURTHER DIVIDUAL EEDOM. 
 BY AND LARGE, GRASSROOTS TEA PARTY ACTIVISTS HAVE RISTED THE WEDGE APPEAL OF GAY MARRIAGE, PREFERRG TO FOC ON FISL ISSU (THOUGH THAT DIDN’T STOP SHAMEFUL GAY-BAG THE MIKE CASTLE-O’DONNELL MPAIGN). PERHAPS THAT’S PART OF THE REASON WHY ATTENDANCE AT THE NFERENCE WAS FAR BELOW THE 1,500 PROMOTED, AND WHY POLICIANS LIKE MICHELE BACHMANN AND TOM TANCREDO KEPT THEIR DISTANCE SPE BEG ADVERTISED AS SPEAKERS. THE PETG VALUE VOTERS FOM OFFERED NNECTN TO GRASSROOTS SOCIAL NSERVATIV WHOUT THE SI-SHOT OF CULTURE WAR NSPIRACY.CONSERVATIVE POPULISTS ARE, BY FN, RISTANT TO CHANGE. AND THE RISE OF GAY CIVIL RIGHTS IS A SIGNIFINT SOCIETAL CHANGE. BUT IS THE RIGHT THG TO DO, NSISTENT WH THE EXPANSN OF DIVIDUAL EEDOM AND EQUALY THAT IS THE GOAL OF OUR SEARCH FOR A MORE PERFECT UNN. FARAH HAS HIS FOLLOWERS, BUT GOPROUD IS WNG THE LARGER BATE.JOHN AVLON'S NEW BOOK WGNUTS: HOW THE LUNATIC FRGE IS HIJACKG AMERI IS AVAILABLE NOW BY BEAST BOOKS BOTH ON THE WEB AND PAPERBACK. HE IS ALSO THE THOR OF INPENNT NATN: HOW CENTRISTS CAN CHANGE AMERIN POLICS AND A CNN NTRIBUTOR. PREVLY, HE SERVED AS CHIEF SPEECHWRER FOR NEW YORK CY MAYOR RUDY GIULIANI AND WAS A LUMNIST AND ASSOCIATE EDOR FOR THE NEW YORK SUN. JOHN AVLON

But gay nservativ are very unlikely to vote for their own stctn, so why is the LGBTQ muny wr large cled to ‘ncel’ them om their ranks?

THE ANTI-INTY POLICS OF GAY NSERVATIV

Sendly, sual dismissal of nservative gays overlooks the diverse range of nservatisms out there. Whether ’s Twks for Tmp or Twks for Trotsky (or somethg thereabouts), gay people need to behave charably to each other, to mol a muny of tolerance, real diversy, and celebrate what means to be joyful, as we ourselv have hered tradns om our gay forbears.

Can a gay person be nservative? Star Parker wrote 2011 that beg gay and nservative is an oxymoron:.

The ia of “gay nservative” is an oxymoron. “Gay” is everythg that “nservative” is not. The foundatn of the world view that so-lled “gay nservativ” embrace has far more mon wh liberalism than wh nservatism.

CONSERVATIVE, REPUBLIN AND GAY

Although the world view that “gay nservativ” choose to vent may diverge om the world view of liberals, their mon ground is they make all up. And is here where “gay nservativ” and “liberals” fundamentally part om nservativ.

“Gay” is liberal, not nservative, regardls of what their stand may be on ernment spendg or tax. So they have re-vented the word “gay, ” re-vented the word “marriage”, and now they want to re-vent the word “nservative.

TMP PRI: GAY REPUBLINS ON WHY THEY'RE BACKG THE PRINT

At least 2 on the Trfiecta team disagree and they tackle the issue of beg gay and nservative wh que a b of passn:.

How to be Gay and Conservative? In fact I don't even like to e the label if "gay" bee I would like to distance myself om the radil wokeism that is stroyg the wtern culture. I know that the nservative movement believ all homosexuals are "gay" or apart of the alphabet mafia, but there is a large majory of who are as nservative as the Republins wh only one small difference, "sexualy.

I was simply lookg to be actively volved and bee a member of the church… Bee I was gay, that was sufficient for [them] to turn around and say no. But all of a sudn, ‘Oh, but now you say you’re gay, you n’t do that any more’.

CAN YOU BE GAY AND CHRISTIAN? UNRSTANDG THE DEBATE

Recent rearch strongly suggts that LGBT people who ntue to intify as Christian experience heightened “homonegativy” – negative and shame-filled feelgs about their sexualy – pared to non-relig, or even formerly Christian, LGBT people. Some pastors believe that the Church’s stance on homosexualy is outdated. Gay marriage is “a state sanctn of sful behavr” and homosexualy “a sful and socially stctive liftyle”—acrdg to the thor of the Tea Party Manifto and founr of WorldNetDaily, Joe ocsn for his opg was the Friday night fight of WND’s un-ironilly named “ Takg Ameri Back” nference Miami—a bate between Farah and Christopher Barron, the -founr and chairman of GOProud, a new gay nservative anizatn.

The battle l had been drawn this summer when Farah announced he was disvg Ann Coulter om speakg at his nference bee of her cisn to emcee GOProud’s “HomoCon” fundraiser New York later this month. ” but the unrlyg issue was whether gays uld be nservative at all.