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Article: The closet straight: when Andrew Sullivan pleads for gay marriage, has he thought about what marriage is? (New Republic editor, who is gay, argues his case for homosexual rights in his article 'The Politics of Homosexuality' in the May 10, 1993 issue)
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- July 5, 1993
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JOHN Courtney Murray once observed that the atheist and the theist essentially agree in their understanding of the problem: The atheist does not mean to reject the existence of God only in Staten Island; he means to reject God universally, as a necessary truth. He accepts the same framework of reference, and he makes the same move to a transcendent standard of judgment. In a thoughtful, extended essay, Andrew Sullivan, the young, gay editor of The New Republic, has made a comparable concession for the advocate of "gay rights" ["The Politics of Homosexuality," New Republic, May 10]. For Sullivan has put into place, as the very ground and framework of his argument, a ...