Andrew Sullivan Resurrects His Blog To Celebrate Gay Marriage Decision

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This time, it wasn’t a gag.

Blogger and longtime gay marriage advocate Andrew Sullivan returned to his retired blog on Friday to author a post in celebration of the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold same-sex marriage as the law of the land.

It was the first post from Sullivan since he shut down the blog in February, and unlike the prank post Gawker editor and former Dish contributor Alex Pareene published on the blog a few weeks ago, it was the real deal.

“I think of all those who supported this movement who never lived to see this day, who died in the ashes from which this phoenix of a movement emerged,” Sullivan wrote. “This momentous achievement is their victory too – for marriage, as [Justice] Kennedy argued, endures past death.”

Sullivan recalled his own career making the case for gay marriage, as a conservative British transplant living in America, since 1996.

“I never believed this would happen in my lifetime when I wrote my first several TNR essays and then my book, Virtually Normal, and then the anthology and the hundreds and hundreds of talks and lectures and talk-shows and call-ins and blog-posts and articles,” he wrote.

He praised the Supreme Court for affirming a “core truth”:

We are not disordered or sick or defective or evil – at least no more than our fellow humans in this vale of tears. We are born into family; we love; we marry; we take care of our children; we die. No civil institution is related to these deep human experiences more than civil marriage and the exclusion of gay people from this institution was a statement of our core inferiority not just as citizens but as human beings. It took courage to embrace this fact the way the Supreme Court did today.

Read the whole post here.

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