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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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Andrew Sullivan
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 10
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There is something about hearing your president affirm your humanity that you don't know what effect it has until you hear it.
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My father has been a rock for me every since.
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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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I do not believe that the truth can ever be in conflict with God.
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