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This week, we're going to continue exploring political issues within the LGBT communities,

a theme that I've touched on lately with guests such as National Post columnist Adam Zivo and New York-based author Ben Appel.

This week's guest is Ronan McCray, a professor of constitutional and European law at University College London in the UK,

whose new book is called The End of the Gay Rights Revolution, How

Hubris and Overreach Threaten Gay Freedom.

As the title of the book suggests, Professor McCrae believes that the fight for gay rights

has in some ways overshot the mark.

First of all, he argues, many activists in the field have gone past traditional demands

for equality and now have embraced more dubious and radical causes that really have little to do

with gay rights as traditionally understood. Causes like ending the nuclear family or even destroying

capitalism. Secondly, Professor McCrae argues, many gay men have embraced an anything-goes attitude

to sexuality that is eroding their own happiness and life satisfaction, as well as alienating

political allies in the straight community. In his book and in our conversation, Professor McCrae warns that the persecution of gay

men and women has been the norm throughout almost all of human history, and that the human

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