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The Rise Of Gay Conservatives?

By The Daily Dish
Nov 20 2008, 8:26 AM ET

Freddie DeBoer makes a prediction:

As homosexuality becomes less and less differentiated from conventional life, and there are more and more victories for gay normalcy and gay acceptance, there will likewise be less reason for a gay rights movement. And as gay people become fully integrated into the American experience as equal participants, the need for gay people to ally with any one partisan or ideological apparatus will shrink.

What do you think we've been working for for the last couple of decades? I'd love to shut down the gay rights movement. I hope to help do so in my lifteime. Freddie continues:



One of my frustrations with conservative opposition to grievance politics and special interest groups is the fact that some groups of people actually have legitimate grievances (like being denied marriage rights). Sometimes certain groups of people actually have special interests, and as democracy is a system of individuals and groups competing for their own best interests, it's natural to have affinity groups dedicated to pursuing those interests. So the cure for minority politics is to remove the complaints of the minority groups in the first place.

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