Andrew Sullivan Quotes

I don't understand what the big deal is with gay marriage. Get over it, people.

I don’t believe that opposite sex and same sex marriages are the same, but I do believe, with growing numbers of Americans, that the time for denigrating or stigmatizing same sex relationships are over.

First, I was opposed to gay marriage because it seemed like one more way that gays were wanting to assimilate. When I realized the Christian right was so opposed to it, as well as tyrannical governments in Africa and Russia, I thought, 'It must be a good thing to fight for.'

It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.

I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.

The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing of gay marriage - are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life.

Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice.

In the world I've lived in, gay marriage, for example, seems completely logical. And yet there are many people who don't live in that world.

I have close family members as well as lots of close friends who are gay. Many of them strongly support gay marriage.

I cannot be a placard waver for every campaign; that's why I have mostly kept quiet about gay marriage.

Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me... as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it's one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps, like, not getting kicked out of your job because you're gay.

Most Americans don't care about gay marriage.

I often refer to myself as a gay man and all my friends are gay and I would like nothing more than for them to be able to be married.

Gay marriage won't be more of an issue 25 years from now than interracial marriage is today.

I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one.

Obama sees himself as such a huge change that he can be cautious about other societal changes. But what he doesn't realize is that legalizing gay marriage is like electing a black president. Before you do it, it seems inconceivable. Once it's done, you can't remember what all the fuss was about.

I don't care who anybody sleeps with. If a couple has been together all that time - and there are gay relationships that are more solid than some heterosexual ones - I think it's fine if they want to get married. I don't know how people can get so anti-something.

If bigots oppose gay marriage so vehemently, it must be because marriage is a defining institution for them; gays will never be fully accepted until they can marry and adopt, like anyone else.

AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.

I don’t think that gay people threaten my marriage and I don’t think that the nation is in danger from gays.

If they’re [homosexuals are] not going to get eternal benefits in Heaven, why should we give them government rewards here on this earth? I don’t think we should.

Part of the new morality of the '60s and '70s is a new attitude toward homosexuality. The homosexual men and women have organized to fight for acceptance and respectability.

I'm fine with gays. I have nothing against gays.

My brother had the courage to come out in 1978, when equality was still a distant dream.

I'm not homophobic and I'm not anti-gay.