Andrew Sullivan’s Homophobia
June 2, 2006 · By Tom Cerber
Andrew Sullivan levels a gratuitous smear on the author of this New York Times editorial, who is a member of Opus Dei and an English professor who happens to study Oscar Wilde. That, and the author’s Opus Dei rituals, are enough for Sullivan to smear him. He even reproduces a picture of the author so homophobes can lynch him for opposing Sullivan’s politics.
Sullivan is such a weirdo. There’s something about him akin to Allan Bloom, and not political philosophy. Neither comes off as one would expect a philosopher to come off: comfortable in one’s own skin.
Their homosexuality seems more like a refusal to grow up than any genuine, soul enhancing erotic longing. They just seem like such insecure losers that try their darndest to bring as many down with them as they can; ultimately the perpetual victims of their own private pathologies justifying their feckless existence.
Comparing Bloom to Sullivan is unfair. Bloom was a man of letters, and no ideological brawler like Sullivan.
Bloom predates the blogosphere. There is no reason to think Sullivan would not be a letter writer if he didn’t have the internet, and all its trappings, to keep him distracted. ;-)
I still think one can’t help but notice Bloom, though a high intelligible thinker, as spiritually disoriented, lacking the humility necessary for loving philosophical clarity and showing it; a prickly fella fighting too many demons at once.