Tag Archives: Andrew Sullivan

Andrew Sullivan Endorses Ron Paul

“I regard this primary campaign as the beginning of a process to save conservatism from itself. In this difficult endeavor, Paul has kept his cool, his good will, his charm, his honesty and his passion. His scorn is for ideas, not people, but he knows how to play legitimate political hardball. Look at his ads – the best of the …

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HomoQuotable – Andrew Sullivan

“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.” – Andrew Sullivan. One his readers chimes in: “Bush and Saddam – One Trillion dollars and thousands of US lives. Obama and Qaddafi – One Billion dollars and zero US lives.”

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Quote Of The Day – Andrew Sullivan

“So she’s bowing out. Call it cowardice; call it a rare example of sanity; call it a bizarre end to an even weirder game of hide and seek for the past few months. But the bottom line is: we can stop worrying about the threat she posed to this country. That is all I really cared about: the insane gamble …

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HomoQuotable – Andrew Sullivan

“Has he been conscious since Roe vs Wade? The point here, it seems to me, is that Focus on the Family is no longer necessary. Its positions – once radical – are now litmus tests for every GOP candidate save one. It controls the party on social issues so completely the likeliest nominee began his campaign at a prayer rally. …

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HomoQuotable – Andrew Sullivan

“For a long time, gays and lesbians braver than I was were effectively married and lived together, risking violence and opprobrium and isolation. For decades these bonds existed, and we knew of them even if we never spoke of them. I saw them up close as a young man in the darkest years of the AIDS plague. I saw spouses …

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Sullivan Vs. Sisters, Round Two

“Rail against the supposed grief we cause believers and wrap yourself in self-righteous anger if it makes you feel good- it’s your shtick and in these tough times I know you need a paycheck. But for the love of every young LGBTQI kid out there trying to find a way through this cruel world, please stop carping on about how …

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Andrew Sullivan On “Hunky Jesus”

“I am a First Amendment absolutist, as readers know. And I’m also a solid defender of the right to blasphemy. But there are smart ways of doing this, ways that illuminate broader issues – think of ‘The Book Of Mormon’ or any South Park episode. And then there are smug, cheap and unfunny shots at the faith of other people. …

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Andrew Sullivan On King & Spaulding

“To put pressure on lawyers defending clients or laws because lobby groups don’t like them is deeply illiberal. It remains disgusting, for example, that rightwing groups targeted lawyers defending terror suspects and Gitmo prisoners. When the far right did this, it was despicable. Now that the left is doing it, it remains just as despicable. “Memo to the gay rights …

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HomoQuotable – Andrew Sullivan

“I do not know right now what to do or say. Except to express my love and gratitude for my family and friends and husband who lived through this with me; and to those who helped lift the HIV ban; and to my lawyer who was simply magnificent; and to those who did what they could – and they know …

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Andrew Sullivan On Gay Deportations

“The US government regards gay Americans as sub-human in their needs and wants and rights. Their loves and relationships mean nothing under the law every time they encounter federal authoritah. Aaron and I are total strangers to one another in the eyes of federal law. And because we are legally married, I am paradoxically more vulnerable to being deported than …

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On Broadway’s The Book Of Mormon

The Book Of Mormon is in previews has opened and reviews are coming in. Andrew Sullivan: This is an almost classically traditional musical score, each song unique, but united and woven together in show-stopping finales. Their blend is of subversive material filtered through tradition and sincerity. There is no cynicism here. Yes there is General Butt-Fucking Naked. There is an …

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HomoQuotable – Andrew Sullivan

“The chance to be part of a whole new experiment in online and print journalism, in the Daily Beast and Newsweek adventure, is just too fascinating and exciting a challenge to pass up. And to work with media legends, Barry Diller and Tina Brown, and with the extraordinary businessmen Sidney Harman and Stephen Colvin, is the opportunity of a lifetime.” …

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God Loves Homosexuals SO Much, He’s Gonna Kill The Fuck Out Of Them

The Christianists at True Life have put together an astoundingly nasty “ex-gay” presentation in which they assure us, that YES, of course God loves homosexuals. But you’re still going to die in agony decades early because of your detestable sins. The clip’s host says that he’s glad God gave him AIDS, because that made them SO much closer! Deadly disease …

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Andrew Sullivan On Homocons And GOProud: They Are Nauseating

In a video essay posted today on Big Think, Andrew Sullivan muses “How Can Anyone Be Gay And Republican?” Here’s an excerpt. You know, I used to say, we have to stay in these parties because certainly gay people do not want to become a Democratic Party constituency that is totally taken for granted, which is, of course, what has …

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HomoQuotable – Andrew Sullivan

“Many of us fought for years to construct a conservatism that treated gay people as individuals and as equal citizens. We fought, as GOProud does, to rebut the notion that being gay means being a socialist or a leftist. But we also fought to have core civil equality recognized – in military service and marriage, and we fought against an …

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Andrew Sullivan On Christine O’Donnell

“A mischievous thought: when will someone ask O’Donnell, as a single woman, if, since her conversion to Catholicism, she has ever masturbated? She cannot have had any sex, right? And that includes sex alone. Since she has made this a public stance, and since, apparently, she cannot lie (even if it would mean handing over Jews to Nazis), she has …

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HomoQuotable – Andrew Sullivan

“It seems pretty obvious to me…that the current Pope is a gay man (just as it was blindingly clear that John Paul II was straight). I am not claiming that Benedict is someone who has explored his sexuality, or has violated his own strictures on the matter. There is absolutely no evidence of that, or of hypocrisy of any sort. …

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HomoQuotable – Andrew Sullivan

“It is worth noting, once again, how utterly hollow the Vatican is on the subject of homosexuality. It is an institution so embedded with homosexuality it makes Broadway look straight. The stories I’ve heard! The network of gay priests is vast in Rome, and is, in my mind, as unhealthy for those who get away with it – the hypocrisy …

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HomoQuotable – Andrew Sullivan

“Is Obama actually going to use a Supreme Court nominee to advance the cause of the closet (as well as kill any court imposition of marriage equality)? And can we have a clear, factual statement as to the truth? In a free society in the 21st Century, it is not illegitimate to ask. And it is cowardly not to tell.”- …

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Highlights: Sully Vs. Maggie

Via Metro Weekly, here’s a highlight reel from this week’s Cato Institute between Maggie Gallagher and Andrew Sullivan, including some post-debate interviews.

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