Explanation: Goldwater was “Mr. Conservative”, the 1964 GOP presidential candidate, a man so entrenched in small government delusions that he thought segregation by private businesses was a “states’ rights issue”. Yet come the 80s and 90s, when evangelical interests took over the Republican Party, Goldwater was a supporter of LGBT rights because the Federal government had no ‘right’ to interfere in such matters. Man was bizarre, but points for a strange kind of consistency?