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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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Here’s why I find it impossible to be a Republican: any crowd that instantly cheers the execution of 234 individuals is a crowd I want to flee, not join.
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Even if it's deep unhappiness, it's your unhappiness.
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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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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 can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.
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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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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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I enjoy being around people who disagree with me and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities.
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When I first started talking about gay marriage, most people in the gay community looked at me as if I was insane or possibly a fascist reactionary.
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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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My own view is simply that there are some very basic rules very simple rules that apply to all writing in a way, which is: don't lie if you're wrong, correct do not misrepresent and try and keep oneself intellectually honest - which means, as a writer, the very difficult task in public of admitting you were wrong.
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My father has been a rock for me every since.
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If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error?
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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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A mind is a wonderful thing to change.
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Every generation is born into, for the most part, a heterosexual family.
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The one man more responsible for destroying the Democratic centrist revival, for throwing away the Clinton legacy, and for suicidally pitching his party to the populist left was Al Gore
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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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I believe that there are moments in sex that are so awesome that they actually reflect God.
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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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