There are Conservatives who get it

[dickthegrouch]

Of course, they have to be members of "our team" :

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/jul/16/nick-herbert-gay-pride

Nick Herbert, Britain's most senior gay minister, will Saturday attend Europe's largest gay pride celebration in Warsaw Saturday in an attempt by the Tories to encourage their eastern European allies to abandon homophobic views.

The policing minister, who told US Republicans in Washington in February that gay rights are compatible with conservatism, said last night he hoped the centre right in eastern Europe would follow the Tories' modernising example.

Herbert will appear at the EuroPride celebration in Warsaw tomorrow after David Cameron pledged in April that the most senior gay figure in the Tory party would travel to Poland to encourage the Law and Justice Party to moderate its views on sexuality.