No Tea For Gays? Ctd

Jonathan Rauch argues that the anti-GOProud CPAC scuffle exposes a Republican weak spot:

[C]onservatives’ hostility to homosexuality isolates them politically from the rest of the public, and the anti-gay consensus is fracturing even on the right (44 percent of Republicans say homosexuality should be accepted by society).

Translation: an issue which once divided and dispirited the Democratic coalition while uniting and energizing conservatives now cuts the other way. It’s a wedge issue against the right. Not just temporarily, either.

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