We were delighted to have Olson on our side. As for gay rights advocates, after an initial hesitation, they largely have welcomed Olson's help, but some do question his strategy. Most conservatives apparently cling to the discredited belief that sexual orientation is merely a choice of "lifestyle. Except conservative Christians, because they're so judgmental and icky. And besides: You will receive emails containing news contentupdates and promotions from The New York Times. We demean their relationships and we demean them as individuals.
Social conservatives believe sexual promiscuity is bad for the body and corrosive to the soul — that the sexual revolution's encouragement of licentiousness has degraded social norms and debased our common virtue.
Many of my fellow conservatives have an almost knee-jerk hostility toward gay marriage. Short of actually shooting somebody in the face, individuals should be able to do pretty much whatever they want except criticize the novels of Ayn Rand, no matter how hilariously bad her prose. Somehow David and Ted have found time in their packed schedules to write their story in a new book— Redeeming the Dream: This is an irrational system, it is discriminatory, and it cannot stand.
In most of these battles, conservatives either sat on the sidelines or actively defended the status quo.
