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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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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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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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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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Personally, I'd rather have pins stuck in my eyes than endure a conversation with John Kerry, but I'd love to hang with Bush.
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When I was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, Then there's no hope for me, Mum.
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The success of the stock connect program and the increased market volatility means investors are looking for more products to access China markets performance than exchange traded funds, and futures are feeding that rising demand.
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The Dixiecrats meet again in New York. Now they're called Republicans.
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The New York Times had not become The New York Times overnight. It had to earn its reputation day-by-day.
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I watched Nancy Pelosi and Tom Daschle. Good grief. What whining weenies.
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I believe that there are moments in sex that are so awesome that they actually reflect God.
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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 a lot of people are afraid the truth is in conflict with God. And are unable to let go and let the truth of the world.
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Any president can start a war, and use the chaos of disorder that such a war creates as an indefinite argument for prolonging it. It's a war that keeps on giving. Failure means it's even more necessary to keep failing.
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In this nonfundamentalist understanding of faith, practice is more important than theory, love more important than law, and mystery is seen as an insight into truth rather than an obstacle. It is the great lie of our time that all religious faith has to be fundamentalist to be valid.
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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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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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...the current Human Rights Commission's working group is made up of the Netherlands, Hungary, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and Zimbabwe. No, I'm not making that up.
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I'm not one of these people who thinks everybody's gay.
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