it feels nice. This follows my post and comments the other day of the Ugly Betty Videos. Check out the link, the author is about the same age as I am. This is from the Independent Gay Forum, a conservative blog where Andrew Sullivan has been a regular contributor. Primarily gay libertarian perspectives on social issues.
Sometimes we don’t notice our victories until long after a battle has been won. Over the last couple of years, gay marriage has secured territory most people didn’t even realize was contested, and its loss will be far more devastating to gay marriage opponents than their victories in all the court cases and all the elections in the world.
I’m talking about sweetness.
Our opponents demonize us — sometimes subtly, sometimes explicitly, but viciously and relentlessly. Their chief weapon is sex – ours, not theirs — overlaid with a self-righteous piety that is funny when Dana Carvey does it, and wrongheaded no matter whose pursed lips it leaks out of. But while everyone from the Pope on down has been focused on the inherent disorders and immorality of homosexual sex, another front in the gay rights battle opened up: Gay teenagers in love.
