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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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For me, God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit have always been my closest friends in this journey.
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I'm openly gay because I'm a Catholic.
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Even if it's deep unhappiness, it's your unhappiness.
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I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold.
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I think very few people are gay. I'm a two-percenter myself.
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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 do not believe that the truth can ever be in conflict with God.
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I actually bought the argument that if we democratized Iraq, we could create a space for venting some of the stuff that's going on in the Middle East in these autocratic regimes that is expressing itself through jihadism, because it has nowhere else to express itself.
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