The gay left is horrified, rather than encouraged, by the Tory party's big steps to include gay people in its party and policies.
This is after he quotes Anastasia Beaumont-Bott, the founder of LGBTory, saying, "I'd go as far to say that I'll vote Labour at this general election." I don't follow British politics, but it seems like this is a member of the gay Right that does not believe that the Tory party is taking "big steps to include gay people in its party and policies".
In the post, Sullivan also extracts at length from this post by Johann Hari (of 533 words in Hari's post, Sullivan reprints 214, or 40.1%). Unfortunately, he does not quote the last 63 words of Hari's post:
This is a tragedy primarily for the large number of naturally right-wing gay people who want to vote Conservative.It will be a great day for Britain when gay people can choose any party on the political spectrum, knowing it won't support prejudice and bigotry against them. David Cameron told us that day had come. His actions, alas, show that it has not.
To Andrew, this is someone who "is horrified, rather than encouraged, by the Tory party's big steps to include gay people in its party and policies." To me, this sounds like someone who does not believe that the Tories are taking "big steps", but still wishes that they were.
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