Can queers be socially conservative (and I don't mean celibate homosexuals, I mean open queers)? Perhaps a bizarre question, seeing as how opposition to queers is the mainstay of social conservatism today.
Some would argue that, yes, quuers can be socially conservative, because social conservatism needs to update for the times. I argue that queers can be socially conservative for precisely the opposite reason. The fact is that LGBT has allowed social conservatives to abandon the original issues that defined then, such as opposition to divorce (On Divorce, by Louis de Bonald, is a seminal conservative work). Pornography has been allowed to run rampant, as has very inappropriate programming for public television. With the rise of LGBT rights, all these serious issues were dropped by social conservatism. But these are the ones coming into everyone's home and subverting our morals and families. It's almost as if queers are more an issue because they're easier, they don't require addressing the vices plaguing the regular family; they allow an externalization of major problems, transferring them to a little demographic.
If a queer ran for an office on a platform of addressing epidemics like these, any serious conservative (I don't mean crypto liberal) would certainty be obliged to support such a candidate rather than an opposition which opposed queers but failed to confront the heavier concerns. No one can really say there is anything socially conservative about a queer lifestyle, but it can be truthfully said that the filth and narcissism the international capitalist is polluting the folk with is a far more critical concern for conservatives, these concerns fake "conservatives" often fail to address due to alliance with money.
