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.… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
I like the pluralism of modernity; it doesn't threaten me or my faith. And if one's faith is dependent on being reinforced in every aspect of other people's lives, then it is a rather insecure faith, don't you think? — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
True belief is not about blind submission. It is about open-eyed acceptance, and acceptance requires persistent distance from the truth, and that distance is… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
What modernity requires is not that you cease living according to your faith, but that you accept that others may differ and that therefore… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
The day of reckoning is not just coming for Saddam Hussein. It's coming for the anti-war movement. — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
For me, friendship has always been the most accessible of relationships - certainly far more so than romantic love. Friendship, I learned, provided a… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
The first person I came out to was God. And the first conversation I ever had with anybody was in prayer. — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terrorism and mass… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
Well, in the past, the size of government was one of the more fundamental dividing lines between Right and Left. The Right was supposed… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
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… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
