Fair-minded conservative humorist P.J. O'Rourke, writing in The Atlantic:
I'm so conservative that I approve of San Francisco City Hall marriages, adoption by same-sex couples, and New Hampshire's recently ordained Episcopal bishop. Gays want to get married, have children, and go to church. Next they'll be advocating school vouchers, boycotting HBO, and voting Republican.
Actually, that pretty well sums up how to make a conservative case for gay equality, with an emphasis on promoting social stability and not simply advancing rights (or, as the right would have it, "special rights").
I wish the big-money gay lobby groups would learn how to "speak conservative," rather than hurling the language of liberalism and wondering why their arguments are so readily dismissed. It's not that those arguments are wrong (e.g., we have a right to be who we are and to live as we want, and the government should not deny us our fair share of recognition/legal equality/social benefits). But for conservatives who are concerned/fixated on maintaining social cohesion in the face of imminent anarchy, they might as well be speaking Greek. And of course, the hard gay left delights in preaching that their lgbtqxyz movement is, in fact, aimed at obliterating bourgeois normality, capitalism, etc. (thanks guys).