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I'd fuck Dan Savage, and I'm not even gay.
I don't think there's a problem pointing out the association between the rightward side of the political spectrum and antigay bigotry. The correlation is plain as day. Now, before anyone rams a giant throbbing cock with "correlation does not equal causation" written on it up my glistening, gaping anus, let me just point out that I realize that correlation doesn't equal causation. The confounder here seems to be a tendency towards an unrational but easy-to-rationalize overcommitment to the status quo (or some naively self-serving ideas about how things used to be).
Isn't a large component of the "conserve" component of conservative about maintaining the status quo (or some pollyanna view about how the status quo was when your parents were kids)? Certainly, there are those on the right who are capable of appreciating innovation with respect to social norms. Given the current state of conservative discourse in this country, I suspect that they are either quiet folk, or in the minority.
Right-folk tend to dislike homosexuality more because disliking homosexuality is one of the probable outcomes of the type of personal dispositions that comprise conservative thought. An analogous phenomena occurs in lefty-folk too.
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