Gay Republicans

Fantastic post by Stirling Newberry at TPM cafe goes deep into the weeds of Foleygate to examine the nexus of homosexuality and the alliance between "social conservatives" and "fiscal conservatives". I use the quote marks because Newberry goes some distance in showing why these shorthand definitions don't quite tell the whole story.

Favourite things: the identification of the Republicans as "borrow and squander right wing socialists"; the title of a forthcoming book by Rick Perlstein, Nixonland: The Politics and Culture of the American Berserk, 1965-1972.

One thing he doesn't talk about,but which would fit seamlessly into his essay, is the whole field of "gay conversion".