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Entry: William F. Buckley Jr.--R.I.P. Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/william_fbuckley_rip#18215 Post contents: I own every book WFB ever wrote, including all those collections of his columns. If you go back far enough, WFB is actually a conservative, if a libertarian leaning one. WFB opted to move to the center way back during the 1960s, although the affect of this move was muted over the next two plus decades. As he aged, especially over the last decade of his life, WFB’s move to the left accelerated. In 2002 I saw WFB at a public event in New York, on a panel including Barney Frank. When WFB stated that he found the concept of gay marriage incomprehensible, the homosexual congressperson Barney Frank went after WFB with his usual fury. Shortly thereafter, WFB wrote a column endorsing the homosexual position in the Supreme Court case of Lawrence against Texas. WFB argued that allowing a state to have on its books a law, even one never enforced, making homosexual conduct illegal was a denial of equal protection. The Supreme Court agreed, paving the way for a national movement toward gay marriage. I’m afraid this is how I will remember WFB, a person I admired and learned from in my youth. It is a sad ending for Taki’s friend; even as what so many have called the “American experiment” appears to be trending in the same direction, to its own sad ending. Sent at: 2008 09 07