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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 still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold.
Homosexuality is like the weather. It just is.
How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?
I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities.
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.
In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.
My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.
The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.
The Dixiecrats meet again in New York. Now they're called Republicans.
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.
We've got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out, so it's not surprising airline stocks are going up.
When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.
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.
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.
I purge compulsively. I'm constantly shedding things.
I think if someone is writing continuously for 10 years and has not changed their mind about something - there's something wrong with them. They're not really thinking.
No American should be forced to choose between their spouse and their country.
The good news about me is that my friends and social network is entirely independent of politics.
Well, in the past, the size of government was one of the more fundamental dividing lines between Right and Left. The Right was supposed to represent the small government philosophy - limited spending, low taxes. Obviously, things have shifted.
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