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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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I do not believe that the truth can ever be in conflict with God.
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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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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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To rid the world of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and Moammar Qaddafi within six months: if Obama were a Republican, he'd be on Mount Rushmore by now.
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My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.
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[T]he myth that there was somehow a magic wand in the early 1980s to cure AIDS - a wand that Reagan deliberately refused to wave - is now almost conventional wisdom.
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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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In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.
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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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How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?
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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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Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.
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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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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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