Does Ross Douthat think Pro-Gay is Pro-Family?

Andrew Sullivan reads Ross Douthat and likes what he sees:

I’m stretching things a bit, I know, but it\’s interesting to see Ross praise what he calls David Cameron’s “pro-family” impulses – especially by supporting married couples in the tax code, something I also support. The Lib-Dems have largely quashed this for now. But Cameron’s pro-family agenda specifically and emphatically included gay couples. In fact, his entire argument was that we should not distinguish between gay and straight, but focus on core values – like commitment and responsibility. This is the argument I’ve been making for twenty years – and is directly opposed to the Republican Christianism which seeks to support family life by discriminating against and, in some states, seeking to recriminalize gay relationships.

The title of Andrew’s piece is “Douthat: Pro-Gay is Pro-Family?” The problem is, I don’t really see any conclusion in Douthat’s piece that makes him out to be pro-gay in anyway. Here’s the relevant passage (emphasis mine):

Now I don’t want to say I told you so, exactly, but I do think I did rather better assessing the promise of the Cameron Tories on size-of-government issues than did, say, Mark Steyn. It’s not that Steyn and Co. were wrong to recognize a squishy, pandering streak in the Tory leader, and certainly there are plenty of issues where Cameron’s party sits well to the left of where the American Republican Party can and ought to be. (Nor is it clear that the pro-family, Christian-influenced side of the Cameron agenda — which I found particularly appealing — will survive his coalition with the Liberal Democrats.) But Cameron’s critics missed the forest for the trees: They took note of every centrist lunge, every compassionate-conservative gesture and every touchy-feely gimmick, while failing to recognize that the Tory leader and his brain trust were putting together a more sweeping and serious blueprint for cutting and decentralizing government than we’ve seen from any Republican politician since Newt Gingrich, and maybe Ronald Reagan.

What I’m reading is that Douthat praises the Christian-influenced part of Cameron’s pro-family agenda.  I’m just not seeing anything that would suggest that Douthat is praising Cameron’s belief in the equality of same-sex couples. In fact, it’s that “Christian-influenced” moniker that Andrew is especially nervous about above. Not to mention that it’s the LibDems (whose influence in the coalition Douthat isn’t psyched about) who are promising same-sex marriage in this government. Douthat also, while praising Cameron’s unexpected traditional conservatism, finds that “there are plenty of issues where Cameron’s party sits well to the left of where the American Republican Party can and ought to be.” I would suspect that full equality is embedded in that.