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“My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.” quote by Andrew Sullivan — Download Open image

“My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.”

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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 doubt. Doubt, in other words, can feed faith, rather than destroy it. And it forces us, even while believing, to recognize our fundamental duty with respect to God's truth: humility. We do not know. Which is…

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I'm gay. I always have been and I always will be, and I'm happy.

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What modernity requires is not that you cease living according to your faith, but that you accept that others may differ and that therefore…

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Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often…

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

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For me, friendship has always been the most accessible of relationships - certainly far more so than romantic love. Friendship, I learned, provided a…

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The first person I came out to was God. And the first conversation I ever had with anybody was in prayer.

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

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“Even if it's deep unhappiness, it's your unhappiness.”

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Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terrorism and mass murder — just as animals are not deemed morally responsible for killing. Insisting on the humanity of terrorists is, in fact, critical to maintaining their profound responsibility for the evil they commit. And, if they are…

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If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political crime. A political crime, in legal terms, is defined as any crime against a state, as opposed to against an individual. Assassination, for example, is not a political crime because you've killed a person, an individual,…

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