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Your political records alone could land you in trouble in the near future.

Roger Scruton lays this out elegantly in a lecture at Oxford: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUbfMQ91Mps#t=37m

Initially Barack Obama was in favor of homosexual rights, but not in favor of altering the institution of marriage. Scruton continues on, "within a year he was saying I am in favor of gay marriage and within another year he was joining forces with those who say that those who are against gay marriage are homophobes."

"So something which had been judged perfectly legitimate to oppose suddenly becomes the criterion of moral merit. And I think we've seen this in all sorts of issues that we've gone through in recent years. All of us are within one tiny step of being demonized."