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Andrew Sullivan
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 10
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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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If you change the society and a culture, the politics will follow.
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Homosexuality is like the weather. It just is.
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It is one of history's great tragedies that American conservatism, born in part in resistance to Soviet torture, should end by endorsing it in America, by Americans.
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Anything that raises any internal honesty about gay life is inherently suspect.
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Michael Moore: a man who never without an excuse for keeping murdering tyrants in power. But now he's supporting the man who bombed Milosevic into submission? How about an explanation, Mr Moore?
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The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.
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When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.
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If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error?
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The essence of romantic love is not the company of a lover but the pursuit.
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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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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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When Bush says that Abu Ghraib was the work of a few, he forgot to mention that he was one of them.
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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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Homophobia whether internalized or externalized is really fear it's not hatred, it's fear. It's fear of the truth about ourselves.
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We've got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out, so it's not surprising airline stocks are going up.
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I'm not going to sit around an pretend I'm not thinking things on my blog when I am thinking them and when I'm open to rebuttal.
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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 dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.
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Homophobia: the fear that another man will treat you like you treat women.
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