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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA Buckley Comes Out: A Young Conservative’s Case for The Freedom to Marry
Sean BuckleyA college-age grandson of modern conservatisms founding family comes out in The Daily Beast and makes the case for the freedom to marry.
If you had asked me a few years ago if I supported the freedom to marry, Id have been one of many young Republicans at the time whod have given you an unequivocal no.
As the grandson of former Conservative Party New York Sen. James L. Buckley and great-nephew of National Review founder William F. Buckley Jr., I believed that gay rights were inherently anti-conservative and anti-Catholic.
But I began to reexamine my views after acknowledging a part of myself that Id suppressed for yearsI am gay.
My family is loving and compassionate but they have been active in the fight to keep marriage limited to heterosexual couples. Because of their influence and the views expressed by so many in my religious community, I grew up with an extremely negative view of gay people.
I was taught a hate the sin, love the sinner approach to moral issues while always being told to respect those with whom I disagreed. But given that you cant separate yourself from who you love, teaching someone to hate their sexual orientation inadvertently teaches them to hate themselves. For me, this led to an intense self-hatred and a reflexive rejection of anyone that resembled the part of me I was so desperately trying to fight.
As early as high school I felt that my current university, Georgetown, had betrayed its Catholic faith by supporting an LGBTQ organization. But as the fact that Im gay became increasingly difficult to deny, I struggled to identify with a conservative political community that disdains who I am, and a gay personal community that largely disagrees with what I believe.
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/26/a-buckley-comes-out-a-young-conservative-s-case-for-the-freedom-to-marry.html
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A Buckley Comes Out: A Young Conservative’s Case for The Freedom to Marry (Original Post)
DonViejo
Apr 2015
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Hassin Bin Sober
(26,343 posts)1. Now the d bag should re-examine the rest of his fucked up ideology.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)2. Its a cult.
Blue_Adept
(6,402 posts)3. Another conservative who only changes because it directly impacts them
I'd say it's getting real tiring, but we've had it for years and years and it was tired then.
Lack of empathy; taught or just who they are?