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

  • In this nonfundamentalist understanding of faith, practice is more important than theory, love more important than law, and mystery is seen as an insight into truth rather than an obstacle. It is the great lie of our time that all religious faith has to be fundamentalist to be valid.

  • [Senator] Kerry [democrat MA] is emerging as the worst of all the viable Democratic candidates. He has the backbone of Clinton and the charm of Gore.

  • We've got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out, so it's not surprising airline stocks are going up.

  • Anything that raises any internal honesty about gay life is inherently suspect.

  • 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.

    "Andrew Sullivan: Dishing It Out Daily For A Decade". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. October 17, 2010.
  • I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities.

  • In academia, left-liberalism is so entrenched its advocates' debating skills have gone rusty. When you've been talking to yourself for decades and imposing speech codes on everyone else, your ability to argue coherently - let alone entertainingly - inevitably wanes.

  • That's what torture does: it creates a miasma of unknowing, about as dangerous a situation in wartime as one can imagine. This hideous fate was made possible by an inexperienced president with a fundamentalist psyche and a paranoid and power-hungry vice-president who decided to embrace "the dark side" almost as soon as the second tower fell, and who is still trying to avenge Nixon. Until they are both gone from office, we are in grave danger the kind of danger that only torturers and fantasists and a security strategy based on coerced evidence can conjure up.

    "Imaginationland". "The Daily Dish", www.theatlantic.com. October 25, 2007.
  • You just have to keep going. I mean I think our job, my job, is to keep articulating that I exist and that there are lots of people like me exist and we just have no home.

    Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.
  • Homophobia whether internalized or externalized is really fear; it's not hatred, it's fear. It's fear of the truth about ourselves.

    Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.
  • 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.

  • When you fuse Christianity with power, it isn't long before Christians start imposing the cross on others rather than taking it up for themselves.

    "Robertson and Giuliani: The Torture Link". "The Daily Dish", www.theatlantic.com. November 07, 2007.
  • Some of this is unavailable to the male-female union: there is more likely to be greater understanding of the need for extramarital outlets between two men than between a man and a woman; and again, the lack of children gives gay couples greater freedom. Their failures entail fewer consequences for others. But something of the gay's relationship's necessary honesty, its flexibility, and its equality could undoubtedly help strengthen and inform many heterosexual bonds.

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

  • It's also one thing to see a celebrity or some kind of character on a TV show being gay. It's a totally different thing when you know your husband... not your husband, but your brother or your friend or the dude you hung out in high school was gay. I mean, that is what changes people's minds, what changes people's minds.

    "Big Think Interview With Andrew Sullivan". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.
  • My father has been a rock for me every since.

    "I Came Out First to God". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.
  • The important things are not worth knowing because they are useful. They are worth knowing because they are true.

  • For me, God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit have always been my closest friends in this journey.

    "I Came Out First to God". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.
  • I was also reminded of one of the unique charms of NYC in the summer: vast piles of rotting garbage piled on the sidewalks, with that sweet yet nauseating smell of decomposing groceries sitting in the humid fetid air, and rancid food juices oozing over the sticky sidewalks. With my windows open to counter the stuffiness, I could occasionally catch a whiff of the stench outside. People actually like living in this chaotic, fetid monument to incompetence? Beats me.

  • If you suspend the Geneva Conventions, give the green light to anything that will get intelligence, round up thousands all over the globe with reckless disregard for guilt or innocence, you are effectively and knowingly issuing orders to seize innocent people and torture them. Any president who decides to do that and then says it was not his intention to do that is a fraud or a fool.

    "'Disgrace', Ctd". "The Daily Dish", www.theatlantic.com. June 19, 2008.
  • 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 why we believe.

  • 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.

  • The Dixiecrats meet again in New York. Now they're called Republicans.

  • The middle part of the country - the great red zone that voted for Bush - is clearly ready for war. The decadent Left in its enclaves on the coasts is not dead - and may well mount what amounts to a fifth column.

    "Al Gore, Andrew Sullivan, and 'Fifth Column'" by Timothy Noah, www.slate.com. December 2, 2002.
  • I think a blog to live really has to be probably four or five times a day.

    "Big Think Interview With Andrew Sullivan". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.
  • Any president can start a war, and use the chaos of disorder that such a war creates as an indefinite argument for prolonging it. It's a war that keeps on giving. Failure means it's even more necessary to keep failing.

    "Of Their Choosing". "The Daily Dish", www.theatlantic.com. September 20, 2007.
  • [D]id you really expect fairness on the environmental issue? For a swathe of reporters, this is not a matter of empirical reporting; it's a matter of faith. Bush cannot be pro-environment because he's Bush.

  • Don't fool yourself that you're blogging when you're really just putting stuff up online.

    Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.
  • I do not believe that the truth can ever be in conflict with God.

    "I Came Out First to God". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.
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