Andrew Sullivan

When it comes to predictability, few can match Andrew Sullivan. No matter what, he can be counted on to side with religious conservatives against his own people.

“What rational person would engage in this sort of activity? There is only one solution – let’s tax it,” wrote the self-loathing economist.

By trying to prove we’d be better off as a movement if everyone looked and sounded the way society expects us to, he betrays a blindness towards trans issues.

Hell hath no fury like a privileged white gay man who has waited too long for the next pride parade contingent to sashay by.

To say there’s been a flurry of discussion around the release of a new book Tuesday on the legal case that challenged California’s Proposition 8 would be an understatement. The book, “Forcing the Spring,” by The New York Times writer Jo Becker, has been thoroughly pilloried by many plugged-in LGBT activists and journalists this week, both publicly and privately.