How can Andrew Sullivan seriously claim that Rod had not become a homophobe?

Andrew Sullivan writes

ROD DREHER'S GAY PROBLEM: There's no question in my mind that National Review's Rod Dreher is not a homophobe. He's always been extremely civil to me; he has good gay friends; he's a brave journalist.

From a piece Rod wrote on decadence encroaching of the land of his ? of our ? youth, in the small towns around New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Lafayette, Louisiana:

Cable television monoculture is everywhere, as is the same social breakdown and moral chaos you see in big cities. For instance, lesbian couples walk the corridors of the local high school. Sic transit gloria mundi, y'all.

This is weirdly reminiscent of conversations that Rod and I had back in high school. We would talk about the oddly civil behavior of unreconstructed racists that we knew -- racists that even went to far as to express support for the Klan. Yet they were civil, and "some of their best friends where black." It didn't stop them from thinking that blacks were intellectually inferior, lazy, etc. They could still be treated with a patronizing gentility.

And Rod forgets: he recalls here the world of his high school years, a world where lesbian couples never dared walked the halls of high schools together.  For Rod, the homophobic that would terrify lesbians into hiding is part of the lost "glory of the world."  Well, Rod and I went to high school together, and I walked the corridors with my boyfriend. At the time, he applauded me for it.

But the first thing a reconstructed conservative learns is how to reinvent his past, and then how to reinvent the past of an entire region.  

From Salon:

"Meanwhile: The Redstone 8 Cinemas at Kimball Junction placed a disclaimer under its Fahrenheit 9/11 listings that stated: 'The playing of Fahrenheit 9/11 does not necessarily represent the views of ownership or management.'

"One letter to the editor in The Park Record asked if the lack of disclaimers meant the ownership does agree with the views of 'White Chicks' and 'DodgeBall.'"

I'm still trying to get a grip on what's been happening in the blogosphere. I'm discovering amazing collaborative technologies, such topic exchange, and within topic exchange, the Invisible Adjunct channel. A lot of blogs that I already read participate, but I also discovered some fantastic new blogs, such  à Gauche and Critical Mass. (No slight intended to others participating; I've just started reading.) If I'm not careful, I'll spend so much time reading and catching up that I'll never blog.