Andrew Sullivan

At least we know that Andrew Sullivan is not one of those much-hated Neo-Cons. They have convictions. Clearly, Sullivan has a mission, but he overestimates his value to conservatives if he thinks to dissuade a single one from their beliefs. It's a monumental conceit to think that withholding his endorsement could persuade social conservatives to act against their religion and blithely toss their Bibles aside to accomodate his wishes on gay marriage. It's something he has been toying with for months. It's petty of him to endorse Kerry for spite when they don't.

Simply put, Sullivan has gone around the bend. Timothy Noah reviewing David Brock's Blinded by the Right found Brock to be "whiny, histrionic, and so factually unreliable that Chatterbox practically gave himself a migraine trying to figure out which parts of Brock's lurid story were true, and which parts were false." So, too, we will always wonder about Sullivan's writings. We've been reading his histronics on gay marriage for months. It got so it was hard to find anything else to read on his site.

It's sad, but as Noah subtitled his review, "A lifelong habit proves hard to break." For Brock, it was being a liar. For Sullivan, the habit is being gay above all else.

Sullivan lives with his HIV daily, but that was HIS choice and the consequence of HIS decisions in life. I am opposed to gay marriage but not gay unions. Liberals have destroyed so many institutions in the last thirty years. From schools to churches, classrooms to the family unit. They denigrate concepts of integrity and decency, honesty and faith. And above all, truth. Make no mistake: gay activists will not stop until all churches are compelled to perform gay marriage services despite deeply-held religious beliefs, and when the few defy orders that demand they do so, the activists will insist that no religious marriage will be acceptable. And the courts they have carefully selected will back them.

Just as gay activists circumvented parents to teach fisting to children in Massachusetts, they are determined to undermine this legal definition of a family. Andrew Sullivan can't see it. He only sees his own victimization.