Homophobia whether internalized or externalized is really fear; it's not hatred, it's fear. It's fear of the truth … - Andrew Sullivan

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It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel.

Andrew Sullivan

Homophobia whether internalized or externalized is really fear; it's not hatred, it's fear. It's fear of the truth about ourselves.

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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.

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It's only because you can now watch cheerfully biased Fox News that you begin to realize how cheerlessly biased CNN really is - and always was. Or CBS. Or ABC. Or the BBC.

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When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.

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Michael Moore: a man who never without an excuse for keeping murdering tyrants in power. But now he's supporting the man who bombed Milosevic into submission? How about an explanation, Mr Moore?

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

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