Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terrorism and mass murder — just as animals are not deemed morally responsible for killing. Insisting on the humanity of terrorists is, in fact, critical to maintaining their profound responsibility for the evil they commit. And, if they are human, then they must necessarily not be treated in an inhuman fashion. You cannot lower the moral baseline of a terrorist to the subhuman without betraying a fundamental value.

On 27 August 2007 Sullivan married his husband Aaron Tone in Provincetown Massachusetts. In a blog entry on 12 March 2009 Sullivan summarised his faith journey to date in this way:

Perhaps the institution dearest to me the Catholic church greeted the emergence of gay people in a way that never truly reflected the compassion of Jesus or the good faith arguments many of us offered as a way forward. On Israel
Sullivan states that he has "always been a Zionist".

Sullivan is a former editor of The New Republic and the author of five books. He has been a guest on national news and political commentary television shows in the United States and Europe. His focus is U.