Left and Right agree: Gay “marriage” brings in “choking,” “authoritarian” social “conformism”
While pro-family advocates have noted the incredible rate at which the homosexualist movement has gained the political upper hand in the last five years, others are voicing concern about the shrinking “social space” in the public discourse for those who still object to “ gay marriage .” Some pundits on the left and the center-right are warning that as the homosexual movement gains legislative ground, the freedom to object is narrowing and those holding out against it are increasingly under threat. The stunning advances made by the “ gay movement ” some are saying, is not a triumph for social freedom, but for an increasingly brutally enforced social conformism. Left-libertarian British journalist Brendan O’Neill warned in a column in Spiked , that in 20 years of writing on political issues , “I have never encountered an issue like gay marriage, an issue in which the space for dissent has shrunk so rapidly, and in which the consensus is not only stifling but choking.” ...