Is Gay Marriage Really a Conservative Cause? | Nathaniel Frank @ Gender & Sexuality Law Blog
We can have legitimate disagreements over whether government activism or government restraint is the best path to stable and mutually supportive families and communities. But as we welcome conservatives to the noble cause of gay equality, let’s not allow them to steal our language and our history. And let’s not revert back to using the language that purposely cast liberals — and indeed anyone who disagreed with a specific anti-egalitarian worldview espoused by many conservatives — as threats to families and communities and enemies of mutual responsibility.