My father's arch-conservatism deepened as the years wore on, even after his party climbed into bed with the fundamentalist "Holy Rollers" he had once openly disparaged. The platforms of the candidates he supported -- including, of course, Jesse Helms -- were growing more virulently antigay. He claimed -- as my brother, Tony, would later claim -- that his political beliefs were independent of his love for me. To me that meant that his love for me simply wasn't important enough to make him challenge the relentless fag-bashing of his party. I should be grateful for his tolerance, he seemed to be saying, since I was the one who wasn't playing by the rules. So I withdrew.
-- Armistead Maupin, Logical Family, p. 281
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