This will come as no surprise to anyone who’s ever dealt with Dan Savage or come across his work; but he invents another excellent argument in this piece for the New York Times ahead of President Barack Obama‘s next State of the Union address.
In a nutshell it provides another reason for conservatives to get over themselves and find common cause with gays and lesbians, like this quote, for example:
“Social conservatives long to raise their children in a country where they don’t have to hear about homosexuality every time they turn on the news. I’d like raise my son in a country like that too. And guess what? In countries like Canada — where the fight over gay rights is essentially over, where there is gay marriage, open military service and employment protections — homosexuality hardly ever makes the front pages of newspapers. There’s nothing much to report.
Conservatives can’t get rid of us, but they can hear less from and about us. They just have to bend toward justice.”
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