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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 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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[Bush Hating] undermines the good faith necessary for democratic discussion. Which is a large part of what people like Al Franken are all about.
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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 like the pluralism of modernity it doesn't threaten me or my faith. And if one's faith is dependent on being reinforced in every aspect of other people's lives, then it is a rather insecure faith, don't you think?
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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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The day of reckoning is not just coming for Saddam Hussein. It's coming for the anti-war movement.
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When you fuse Christianity with power, it isn't long before Christians start imposing the cross on others rather than taking it up for themselves.
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What's great about it is that you see, the great struggle for gay people is that the politics is just not going to work for us.
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Bush has legitimized a huge expansion of the welfare state, liberalizing immigration, and using force for democratization abroad. All the next Democratic president has to do to finish Bush's hard work is to raise taxes to pay for it all.
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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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It's also one thing to see a celebrity or some kind of character on a TV show being gay. It's a totally different thing when you know your husband... not your husband, but your brother or your friend or the dude you hung out in high school was gay. I mean, that is what changes people's minds, what changes people's minds.
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I'm openly gay because I'm a Catholic.
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Not many people sleep with other men and when the other man leaves have a nervous breakdown.
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I think there were two great gay Americans obviously, and that was Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman.
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I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold.
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I think very few people are gay. I'm a two-percenter myself.
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Every generation is born into, for the most part, a heterosexual family.
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What I love about the Internet and what I try to do on the issues is insist upon the ability to have bad taste if one wants.
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Homosexuality is like the weather. It just is.
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