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> There is a man hoist by his own petard. He was American's leading gay
> Republican when he all but single-handedly decided to invent gay marriage as
> an issue because -- unbelievable as it might seem now -- he thought it would
> conservatize gays and reconcile conservatives to them.
That doesn't strike me as too unbelievable if all the social conservatives in your surrounds are secular Burkeans. Why, it's simply logical! (There's an irony to this.)