Quotes from Andrew Sullivan

If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error?

I do not believe that the truth can ever be in conflict with God.

Homophobia whether internalized or externalized is really fear; it's not hatred, it's fear. It's fear of the truth about ourselves.

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.

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.

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.

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.

The day of reckoning is not just coming for Saddam Hussein. It's coming for the anti-war movement.

[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.

Al Gore's problem, in my view, is that he never liked politics. He's actually deeply uncomfortable in it but felt he had to do it because of his father. He's much more comfortable in a private sector role and has, in fact, been much more successful in a private sector role, and I admire him for that.

No American should be forced to choose between their spouse and their country.

When Bush says that Abu Ghraib was the work of a few, he forgot to mention that he was one of them.

What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship.

If you are a gay couple living in Alabama, you know one thing: your family has no standing under the law; and it can and will be violated by strangers.

Every generation is born into, for the most part, a heterosexual family.

My father has been a rock for me every since.

In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.

The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.