In 1992 conservative commentator Irving Kristol observed that “[the culture wars] are over, and the Left has won.” The reception of Robert Reilly’s new book,
Making Gay Okay: How Rationalizing Homosexual Behavior Is Changing Everything (Ignatius Press), underscores that judgment. We would expect liberal publications to ignore Reilly’s book. And they have. But conservative journals have followed suit. Various magazines, including
The Weekly Standard, edited by Irving’s son William Kristol, have ignored Reilly’s book.
National Review, edited by Richard Lowry, and its online version, NRO, refused to review it. The same goes for
The American Spectator, edited by R. Emmett Tyrrell.
Making Gay Okay has received a number of favorable reviews, almost all from conservative religious sources. Robert Royal endorsed it at
The Catholic Thing website; Austin Ruse, Christopher Manion, and Fr. C.J. McCloskey have published favorable reviews. Fr. James V. Schall praised the book at the
Catholic World Report website. In fact, the book seems to have done fairly well, reaching the 700s on the Amazon bestseller list (better than being in the millions!). It also rose to no. 1 in Amazon’s “Gay & Lesbian History” category — which Reilly told me he finds “hilarious.” (
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