When I was a teenager, we had a guy in our Boy Scout troop, who was fascintaed with all things military. He worked his way through private high school by working at Chick Fillet. Today, he is a gay rights activist. Go figure.
Things like this aren’t predictable. Sometimes people raised in one environment become disillusioned for reasons not always based on reason. You can have people who suddenly find themselves in an environment that causes them to question everything they thought they knew. I was far more liberal when I was in school. I held some what I later realized were very Marxist views, I was not nearly as strongly against abortion though I never bought the it’s my body argument which is an emotional canard, the gay issue wasn’t even on the radar for me till I became interested in the issue online. I spent a lot of time in the library researching the issues because I didn’t know a whole lot about the issues from the standpoint of politics. Most don’t have that luxury. I didn’t really know who was liberal or conservative but I perceived that some individuals like Lawrence Tribe were clearly full of crap and intellectually dishonest.
The gay activism is one that I see that is a unique threat to liberty much like Environmentalism. Gay activism and liberal social activism is particularly dangerous because of the level of thought control and intimidation that is seen as acceptable and the claim that they are being denied “basic human rights” which is just not true. It becomes impossible to address sexual issues or even issues of free will in a society dominated by social liberalism where even to suggest that a person has a choice in how they conduct themselves and respond to sexual stimuli is labeled hate.