A Voice in the Wilderness In Defense of "Mere Conservatism"

If, for example, the people at the Family Research Council are members of a hate group, then so am I.  FRC is one of the most generous, kind, and decent organizations on the planet.  But the price for having the gall to tell progressives that they can't have everything they want in our society, that gender does matter, that 6,000 years of humans recognizing man-woman as the optimal situation for the bearing and raising of children, is that you will be called a "hater" and find well-funded, influential groups coming after you with everything they have.

And why shouldn't they?  If I believed that gay people are treated now like minorities were during slavery and the days of Jim Crow, I wouldn't stop harassing groups like the Family Research Council either.  If I believed that it doesn't matter who marries each other in society - whether it's two dudes or two dudes, a girl, and a pizza place - then the notion that there were some Americans (and by "some" I mean "the majority") who were standing athwart history and yelling "Stop!" would drive me insane and lead me to do and say things that were at best irrational and at worst malicious and cruel.

I've posted it before, but here is Dennis Prager offering an articulate defense of the position held by (among others): FRC, the voters of California in 2008, and myself.