Are conservatives going gay?

Julie has long said the gay issue (marriage, adoption, health insurance, you name it) is generational, not political.
Here's some evidence of that.

The conservative student newspaper at the University of Wisconsin has an editorial  opposing a ban on gay marriage. 

Emily Friedman writes, Wisconsin"It’s bad enough that this issue is still even a topic of conversation. Now it’s the subject of a constitutional amendment that would lead to banning same-sex marriage in Wisconsin. This is a bad idea."

So I emailed her and asked if this was more of a generational issue (over 40 versus under 40) and she responded, "my generation has always known gays as being prevalent." 

Sounds like more evidence that the youthful right and the youthful left are both right on this issue.
And my co-author is correct once again.
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Comments

[Juno888]

We cannot blame them in there way of life...

[lekshe]

The issue might be generationally split, but I bet it's split more ways than that. For example, I am a Baby Boomer (52) but I am as pro marriage for homosexual people as I am for anyone else. But I am Buddhist, and I have lived in several cultures besides this one. Could these also be splits?

[Snowe]

I live in the South; most of the conservative youth don't support gay marriage, but they are definitely more tolerant of gays than are their parents. Some support the idea of civil unions.

[Suzanne Kart]

I have a hard time understanding why anyone would oppose gay marriage. If you're gay, you want this option. If you're not gay, what does it matter to you who other people marry? How could someone else's marriage possibly impact your own marriage? Discrimination is not liberal or conservative, it's just wrong.

I'm 34. I would agree that this issue is generationally split, but I don't understand why.