Read Andrew Sullivan, who is today historically eloquent about the hater-in-chief:

WAR IS DECLARED: The president launched a war today against the civil rights of gay citizens and their families. And just as importantly, he launched a war to defile the most sacred document in the land. Rather than allow the contentious and difficult issue of equal marriage rights to be fought over in the states, rather than let politics and the law take their course, rather than keep the Constitution out of the culture wars, this president wants to drag the very founding document into his re-election campaign. He is proposing to remove civil rights from one group of American citizens - and do so in the Constitution itself. The message could not be plainer: these citizens do not fully belong in America. Their relationships must be stigmatized in the very Constitution itself. The document that should be uniting the country will now be used to divide it, to single out a group of people for discrimination itself, and to do so for narrow electoral purposes. Not since the horrifying legacy of Constitutional racial discrimination in this country has such a goal been even thought of, let alone pursued. Those of us who supported this president in 2000, who have backed him whole-heartedly during the war, who have endured scorn from our peers as a result, who trusted that this president was indeed a uniter rather than a divider, now know the truth.

There is more, and you should read it.

...not tons of sympathy out there for Andy Sullivan, I'm afraid:

If gay Republicans came to you and said, "I'm sorry, I want to work with the Democrats now", would you say, "OK", or would you laugh at them and tell them to go away?

If a random gay Republican came up to me and apologized and wanted to work with me and my party to defeat George Bush, I'd shake his hand and say glad to have you, all is forgiven.

However, if Andrew Sullivan came up to me and wanted to apologize, I'd tell him to go fuck himself.

Some people you can't just forgive. If Sullivan's really sorry he backed Bush, he'll have to prove it to me.

...Eric Alterman, too:

But why is it that it takes a direct attack on Andy’s own identity for him to realize that this administration has no concern for anyone but the wealthy business elite, conservative Christians and neocon strategists who make up its political base? Funny how this arch-defender of the Bush/Ashcroft assault on our civil liberties has become so attached to the U.S. Constitution all of a sudden now that they’re coming after people like him.