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by dogma1138 3626 days ago
I really doubt so, even if you might be thinking of "conservatives" in the very narrow sense of US southern republicans.

I would admit that I do not have that many gay friends, but the few friends, coworkers and acquaintances I have met over the past 10 years very across the political spectrum just like everyone else. Not all of them are liberal, not all of them were even on the same page as far as things like "gay marriage" went, doesn't mean any of them opposed it, but it doesn't mean that they were active supporters of it either. Not everyone defines themselves by their sexual orientation.

You can be "conservative" (or right wing if you will) on many things like national defense, economics, and public spending while being gay, claiming that somehow you have to accept everything that the "left wing" stands for just because you like individual of the same sex as you are is quite telling, oddly enough this level of framing and bias is almost synonymous with the PC crowd - "but you are 'x' how can you be against 'y'", you call it by different names for it but I've seen way too many "liberals" act like authoritarian douchebags and call people of various "minority" groups what can effectively be analogous to a "race traitor" when they don't share their views or buy into their entire agenda.

You can be an african american and not support BLM, you can be a gay man or woman and believe be against state laws that allow or disallow gay marriage simply by believing that it is not upto the state to police marriage, and you can be a gun toting 2nd amendment defender while being a gay pro abortion pro legalization woman.

Stop trying to infantilize people and stick them into camps, if anything you should take from the recent US election (especially bernie vs trump) is that there are considerably more "opinions" out there than you might expect.