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.
Truth is I miss his blog. He frequently annoyed me, but on this topic I always agreed with him.
I’m glad he got to see this in his lifetime.
And this marriage thing not being the only one. I remember pushing to get him on a summer’s ‘Inside Washington’ in the late 80s/early 90s but flying monkeys would have been easier booking at the time.
Mr. Sullivan should just post occasionally or keep a light on for occasional hackers.
I was pleasantly un-surprised to see him comment. Andrew toiled long and hard for this day, and he was up against not only social conservatives, but much of his own community.
I’ve seen things I never thought I would in my life - the Berlin Wall coming down, Nelson Mandela walking out of prison. You can add this to the list.
And Justice Roberts, your concern trolling about gay couples not getting everyone’s approval is noted - but do you feel Loving did the same for inter-racial couples? The GOP’s jurists seem to have a blinkered view of minority rights, unless it’s religious proselytizers or the 1%…
still not dead? Huh.
He annoyed me too, at times, but I’m glad he got to see this as well. And his post reminded me how much I always enjoyed and respected his writing.