"The charge of homophobia is equally easy to refute. If I really were a “gay-basher”, as some headline writers so crassly suggested, why would I have asked Andrew Sullivan, of all people, to be the godfather of one of my sons, or to give one of the readings at my wedding?"
— Niall Ferguson apologizes for arguing Keynesian policy is flawed because Keynes was gay and had no children, thus had no stake in the future.