File this under gay men & women who can argue civilly, understand traditional marriage is not the moral equivalent of the segregated south & are not afraid to say it.
It includes such notables as David Benkof of Gays Defend Marriage, Camille Paglia & Lee Harris in his excellent essay The future of tradition.
It from a New high quality web Magazine called Big Hollywood
It recounts the personal & intellectual journey of gay writer Charles Winecoff
My personal disillusionment with my fellows began in the mid-1990s, after I wrote a nonfiction book about a well-known gay man who married a woman in order to have a family - and stayed married to her for the rest of his life, warts and all. When the book came out, I got it from both sides: the right wingers said I was an activist with a “gay agenda” to ”out” a famous family man; the gays griped that I should have denounced his marriage as a fake and called his wife a “beard.”
It called - Love, War - and Gay Marriage
by Charles Winecoff
“Late last year, when the gay community was working itself into a frenzy over the passage of Proposition 8 - the measure to amend the California State Constitution to define marriage specifically as a union between one man and one woman - I realized I didn’t trust the community anymore. And I’m gay.'
The realization didn’t come overnight; it had been forming for some time. But the Gestapo tactics over Prop 8 - McCarthy-style blacklists, boycotting of otherwise gay-friendly businesses, apologies coerced out of individual supporters who made the “wrong” choice, enforced politically-correct donations to the Human Rights Campaign - clarified it for me.” I hadn’t left the community, it had left me. When did the gays get so mean, anyway?
Its not bad - give it a read
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