Just look at how Britain’s Conservative party has embraced gay unions, openly gay soldiers, and included gay candidates and moved past prejudice. My friend Nick Boles is running for parliament in the county I grew up in. Money quote from a column about his race:
I got to a front door in Elm Drive just as Mr Boles had finished a sympathetic chat with the single mum within. “Is he married?” she whispered as he strode off.
“He’s gay,” I said.
Her face fell. “Tell him: ‘No problem’,” she said – then giggled, “but tell him I’m disappointed.”
“It makes no difference,” was the almost universal response.
“What’s that got to do with it?” voters would remark reproachfully. Little Britain may feature the only gay man in Llanddewi Brefi but here on the Sussex coast we sought an even more elusive character: the only homophobe in Hove.
Why cannot the Republicans be as grown up?
The Dish 