The gay fight's over, SCGOP: focus on driving out the rest of the blacks and the hispanics, the women, and the Jews.

Andrew Sullivan discusses how- of all the minorities the Republicans have driven away- they have achieved their greatest success with gay voters:

The Disappearance of Openly Gay Republicans In Congress

16 MAR 2010 05:41 PM

A few activists are holding on - good for GOProud - but the outlook is grim. Why? Look at what even GOProud supports: civil marriage equality, military service, and no federal constitutional amendment barring marriage equality. There are virtually no openly gay Republicans supporting Republican policy on gay rights. This is not true of any other minority.

This has changed for the worse over the last two decades, in direct opposition to what has happened in every other Western country, especially the British Tories. Here's my attempt to explain why the old conservative politics of homosexuality has fallen apart:

As Waldo's noted before, the striking thing about trying to engage the other really influential bloggers of the SC conservative blogdom is they seem to lack to intellectual integrity to actually debate a serious issue in the open. One wrote Waldo won't because he says he "doesn't do social issues". Sunlit Uplands won't because he genuinely hates gays and believes they are supposed to go to hell under his odd cosmology in which Pope Benedict and The British Royal Family (those posts seemed to have disappeared; we'll pull up our bookmarks and post those in another posting) are supposed to rule the universe in a divinely inspired mix of pomp and punishment (he's been conspicuously silent as the international Catholic Church sex abuse scandal has reached the Pontiff's Guccis and his own Chief Exorcist says there are demons in the Vatican.

The rest won't because they get they are bloggers only in the sense in that it is perceived to enhance their ability to make money off gay-bashers who want to sit in Congress and the state legislature. Which is sad, because a couple of them are really smart and seem to have some vestiges of an internal moral compass. A couple of others are just opportunists.

But in politics you can either be a prophet or a counselor. The pay and  benefits seem to be rather better as the latter. Which is why Waldo avoids the whole cesspit. Except to travel, like Dante with Virgil, along its fringes and observe the perversities going on in it.