How to Respond to Dan Savage on Homosexuality and the Bible?
Homosexual activist Dan Savage recently was invited to give a keynote address to a group of high school students at a high school journalism conference.
You may make your own inferences regarding what this shows about the national associations in question, given the controversial, foul-mouthed history of Savage.
During the course of the event, Savage began a vulgarity-laced rant against the Bible and its teachings on homosexuality.
A significant portion of his audience, which included students from Christian schools, then walked out on him in protest (or disgust, or outrage, etc.).
In response, he suggested they were “pansy *ssed” for being unable to handle his pushback.
According to Focus on the Family’s CitizenLink,
A group of high school journalism students attending a conference called “Journalism on the Edge” in Seattle over the weekend felt they were pushed over the edge by syndicated sex advice columnist Dan Savage.
Savage, the creator of the two-year-old It Gets Better Project, which encourages teens struggling with same-sex attractions to embrace homosexuality, was invited to give a keynote address last Friday at the JEA/NSPA National High School Journalism Convention.
Students were expecting him to talk about bullying. But they also got an earful about birth control, sex, and Savage’s opinions on the Bible.
A 17-year-old from California who was attending with half a dozen other students from her high school yearbook staff, was one of several students to walk out in the middle of Savage’s speech.
“The first thing he told the audience was, ‘I hope you’re all using birth control!’ ” she recalled. Then “he said there are people using the Bible as an excuse for gay bullying, because it says in Leviticus and Romans that being gay is wrong. Right after that, he said we can ignore all the ‘B.S.’ in the Bible.
You can read the CitizenLink article by clicking here.
Savage’s rant was also covered by Fox News. You can read their story by clicking here.
Here is a video clip that captures most of the of the part of Savage’s talk in which he ranted against the Bible (REMINDER: offensive language warning) . . .
And here is my video response:
