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What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship.
Andrew Sullivan
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Andrew Sullivan
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 10
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The essence of romantic love is not the company of a lover but the pursuit.
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There is no escaping this fight. It is civilization or Jihadism. We can and should debate tactics but the sides are clear enough.
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[D]id you really expect fairness on the environmental issue? For a swathe of reporters, this is not a matter of empirical reporting it's a matter of faith. Bush cannot be pro-environment because he's Bush.
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If you change the society and a culture, the politics will follow.
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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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...when a reporter is quoting Sid Blumenthal on president Bush, you know he's scraping the barrel.
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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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I'm openly gay because I'm a Catholic.
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There is something about hearing your president affirm your humanity that you don't know what effect it has until you hear it.
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For me, God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit have always been my closest friends in this journey.
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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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I think of these imperial adventures like welfare programs you start them with all good intentions, they never end, they go on forever and get more expensive as they go on.
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Obama is looking good because he kept his nerve and retained his restraint. That's a tough combo: nerve and restraint. It takes a cold-bloodedness to pull this off, and there are times when ice seems to run through the man's veins.
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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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