WELL: All due respect to Andrew Sullivan, and far be it from me to get in between a man and his self-righteousness, but how can I resist:
"But the real victims of [the conservative failure to embrace gay marriage], in the very long run, will not be gays. It will be conservatives."
Which strikes me as shoddy reasoning; after all, conservatives should've been destroyed by their much-more-clearly immoral support for various forms of Jim Crow-ism, but they've actually pretty much been steamrolling the Democrats with regularity since then. Maybe (and I suggest this with all modesty), Andrew is allowing his own interest in this issue to color how he thinks other people will view it?
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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