working to vindicate every gay-bashing fundamentalist who got dismissed as a loon back in the day (shouldn't be that hard since pretty much everything they warned about is coming true now)

I regret opposing this bloc when they were sounding the alarm back in the '80s when I was a leftist in my 20s. I opposed them because I thought they were irrational and alarmist, I doubted the reality of the social slippery slope, and because they were allied with cunts like Tipper Gore who wanted to censor "offensive" lyrics in pop music.

Live and learn. I've been using this phrase a lot lately.