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If you are a gay couple living in Alabama, you know one thing: your family has no standing under the law and it can and will be violated by strangers.

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Andrew Sullivan
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 10
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Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold.
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The good news about me is that my friends and social network is entirely independent of politics.
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The one thing we know about torture is that it was never designed in the first place to get at the actual truth of anything it was designed in the darkest days of human history to produce false confessions in order to annihilate political and religious dissidents. And that is how it always works: it gets confessions regardless of their accuracy.
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The first person I came out to was God. And the first conversation I ever had with anybody was in prayer.
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What modernity requires is not that you cease living according to your faith, but that you accept that others may differ and that therefore politics requires a form of discourse that is reasonable and accessible to believer and non-believer alike. This religious restraint in politics is critical to the maintenance of liberal democracy.
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It's only because you can now watch cheerfully biased Fox News that you begin to realize how cheerlessly biased CNN really is - and always was. Or CBS. Or ABC. Or the BBC.
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The day of reckoning is not just coming for Saddam Hussein. It's coming for the anti-war movement.
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I've never been a partisan, I've never been a Republican, I've never been a Democrat, ever, which is why I was very frustrated being called a gay Republican when I never attached myself to that.
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We currently have a government planning to go to Mars, heal broken marriages, and build bridges to nowhere - and also one that cannot wage a war competently, cannot respond to a hurricane adequately, and cannot enforce borders. Is it too much to ask that it get the basic things right before embarking on grandiose schemes?
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The Tea Party we were told is only about economics not true. It was always about economics and social issues. They just hid the social issues and now we just see who they really are.
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I enjoy being around people who disagree with me and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities.
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If you change the society and a culture, the politics will follow.
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When I first started talking about gay marriage, most people in the gay community looked at me as if I was insane or possibly a fascist reactionary.
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Homophobia: the fear that another man will treat you like you treat women.
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The important things are not worth knowing because they are useful. They are worth knowing because they are true.
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