British Conservatives Vs American Conservatives - re:homosexuality Andrew Sullivan

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I just learned a pretty staggering fact. If the Tories win the next election in Britain by just a one vote majority, there will likely be 15 openly gay Conservative MPs in the next Parliament. Last night I met Nick Herbert, an openly gay and married MP who will likely take over the environment portfolio in Cameron's cabinet if he is elected. Can you imagine a married gay couple in any cabinet in the US, Democrat or Republican? For a little icing on the cake, they, along with heterosexual couples, will now be allowed to get married in the august rooms of the Houses of Parliament.
Remind me why I moved to the land of the free? To lose freedoms? To watch conservatism calcify into anti-gay bigotry as one of its binding principles? To see a newly elected and allegedly moderate governor of Virginia actually rescind previous protections for gay people employed by state government - so that the gay people who work for their own government must live in constant fear of being fired solely for being gay?

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/02/british-conservatives-and-american-conservatives.html