Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish
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by lanceroxas
Thu Nov 11 2004Andrew Sullivan is the ONLY person who articulates a position for gay marriage that could possibly sell to the American Public. He predicates his position on the fact that tennents of stable relationships are shared between heterosexual and homosexual couples, that these are consistent with the promotion of public virtues necessary for social growth and well being. He argues against imposing gay rights upon the masses and supports changes in the legal structures in the legislatures that reflect the will of the people. His hope, as a gay man, is to make a convincing argument for the changes not to impose fabricated rights upon the masses to serve his own ends. That all being said I disagree with him on those accounts but do agree with him in the context of formulating legal respects for civil unions that do foster the promotion of public virtues. Andrew also articulates the prolife position extremely well and is a strong defender of limited government. His Daily Dishes are simiply... Read more
by magellan
Tue Nov 09 2004Except for the gay part, matches my politics pretty closely, and articulates them far better than I could. I hit AndrewSullivan.com about once per day, and really enjoy his take on everything from presidential elections, to the Theo Van Gogh murder, to what it feels like to be gay in the current political climate. His appearance on Bill Maher was one of the more heated episodes that I have seen - he absolutely went off on liberal MIT professor Noam Chomsky for making a career out of calling the United States evil. Sullivan also wrote the most articulate, independent condemnation of the Bush presidency that I have seen.