Daily Inspiration Quote by Andrew Sullivan

Sullivan’s line lands with the blunt calm of a forecast: no drama, no moral weather report, just a refusal to treat gayness as a scandal requiring explanation. The wit is in the de-escalation. By choosing “the weather,” he grabs something omnipresent, ordinary, and stubbornly indifferent to argument. You can complain about rain, legislate umbrellas, build shelters, but you can’t vote spring out of existence. That’s the point: homosexuality isn’t a policy problem, it’s a fact of human life.

The subtext is aimed at two noisy audiences at once. To social conservatives, it’s a rebuke to the idea that sexuality is a chosen vice that can be shamed, therapized, or prayed away. To some progressives, it’s a warning against turning identity into metaphysics: you don’t need to mystify queerness to defend it. Normalcy, here, is a tactic. If it “just is,” then the state’s proper response isn’t surveillance or sermonizing; it’s basic civil equality and a little humility.

Context matters. Sullivan rose as a prominent gay conservative voice in the late 20th-century culture wars, when “born this way” arguments were gaining traction and AIDS-era stigma still clung to public debate. This sentence distills a larger project: move homosexuality from the realm of moral panic into the realm of weather talk - something you acknowledge, adapt to, and stop using as an excuse to police other people’s lives.