The issue of marriage as a front-burner matter, writes Evans, occurred "just prior to Clinton's re-election, in pursuit of, well, anything that could make Bob Dole palatable." Evans says that it was then that "Republican spinners launched a guided missile at the burgeoning gay marriage constituency."

Though the promotion among same-sex lovers of the institution of marriage had been advised mainly by author Andrew Sullivan, it was not promoted, says Evans, until "Mainstream media latched onto this and made a gay marriage a buzz word that spread far and fast."

"Gay conservatives (so-called Neo-Cons)," charges the fiery Hotspots journalist, "then scurried out of the woodwork. Dog-eared proposals, clutched to their bosoms like prayer beads, they stepped up to the pulpit to seize their inalienable right to marriage."

Evans reflects philosophically, scorning the marital legalisms of neo-conservatives he believes to be poor strategic trends. Of institutionalizing gay marriage he says:

"This includes a formal vindication of tormented years in the closet. Unable, before, to hold their heads up in public while the godless carried on their sexual libertinism, plain ol' shacking-up became the whorish new take on the love that dare not speak it's name."

What kind of rallying cry do these neo-conservatives represent? Evans cogently dumps sarcasm on that cry:

"Couched in the rhetoric of the hobgoblin of little mindedness--foolish consistency—'What they have we should also!'-- is to be the rallying cry of the movement, our endeavors.," he writes.

After reflecting on the works of several authors, including the work of Michelangelo Signorile, (who is the subject of the current GayToday Interview, conducted by Evans) David Scott Evans weighed matters and decided that:

"The neo-cons have found their worm-hole into the movement finally by insisting that self-determined sexuality is not primae facie our cause celebre. It is our unmitigated sameness to heterosexualists that makes us human, they say. Therefore we needn't strive for anything other our right to wedded bliss and the fight over who gets to push junior in the carriage. We used to call them assimilationists, but that term wasn't sound-bite ready-enough, so we call them Neo-Cons now."

Evans, like the early strategists of the gay movement, asks for a current better strategic focus. He believes that:

"As rights go, the entire movement, cannot benefit from these peripheral issues," like marriage, he says, but "foremost in the minds of our 'leaders', especially our gay 'legal eagles,' should be repeal of anti-sodomy statutes across in the U.S (including Florida.)"

"It's brain-dead arguers for marriage who derail us from this important objective," he scorns, "While gays in the majority of states should contend with sexual self-determination, "these yahoos take us willy-nilly, over hill-and-dale to attain the right to smash high-cholesterol cake into their loved one's faces.

"It seems more like egg on their faces," he reminds the marriage-minded, "when one considers the criminalized carnality denied on their honeymoon…"Not tonight dear, I've got a sodomy statute."

"It gets worse…" insists Evans.

"Now," he says, "we've got some of the more, dare I say, previously radical spokespersons (radical: favoring basic change as in…social structure, Webster's) calling for suspension of sexual civil liberties if the state doesn't intervene. (see current Signorile interview, GayToday.)

"If you read between the lines of this article," Evans says "he's (Signorile's) saying: if you don't stem the disease, then we'll never attain our civil rights."

This is a view Evans vehemently rejects:

"Bullshit" he exclaims, "With great stridency, I can assure the readership that our right to ball whomever we want was LEGALLY much denied us before the epidemic. Are we to suspend all prior knowledge of the denial of that basic civil liberty?

"It's this type of convoluted foray into a gay self-flagellating moralist's approach that keeps the wheels spinning. This is merely the start of what is quick becoming a sociological hydra."

"I'm not through with this one folks," promises Evans, readying himself to say more.