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26 April 2012 FOX:
'As many as 100 high school students walked out of a national journalism conference after an anti-bullying speaker began cursing, attacked the Bible and reportedly called those who refused to listen to his rant "pansy asses."
The speaker was Dan Savage, founder of the “It Gets Better” project, an anti-bullying campaign that has reached more than 40 million viewers with contributors ranging from President Obama to Hollywood stars. Savage also writes a sex advice column called “Savage Love.”
Savage, and his husband, were also guests at the White House for President Obama’s 2011 LGBT Pride Month reception. He was also invited to a White House anti-bullying conference.
Savage was supposed to be delivering a speech about anti-bullying at the National High School Journalism Conference sponsored by the Journalism Education Association and the National Scholastic Press Association. But it turned into an episode of Christian-bashing.
Rick Tuttle, the journalism advisor for Sutter Union High School in California, was among several thousand people in the audience. He said they thought the speech was one thing ? but it turned into something else.
“I thought this would be about anti-bullying,” Tuttle told Fox news. “It turned into a pointed attack on Christian beliefs.”
Tuttle said a number of his students were offended by Savage’s remarks ? and some decided to leave the auditorium.
“It became hostile,” he said. “It felt hostile as we were sitting in the audience ? especially towards Christians who espouse beliefs that he was literally taking on.”
Tuttle said the speech was laced with vulgarities and "sexual innuendo not appropriate for this age group." At one point, he said Savage told the teenagers about how good his partner looked in a speedo.
The conservative website CitizenLink was the first to report about the controversy. They interviewed a 17-year-old girl who was one of students who walked out of the auditorium.
“The first thing he told the audience was, ‘I hope you’re all using birth control,’” she told CitizenLink. “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 (expletive deleted) in the Bible.”
As the teenagers were walking out, Tuttle said that Savage heckled them and called them "pansy asses."
Candi Cushman, who writes a blog on CitizenLink, noted the irony.
“Using profanity to deride the bible ? and then mocking the Christian students after they left the room ? is obviously a form of bullying and name-calling,” she wrote. “This illustrates perfectly what we’ve been saying all along: Too many times in the name of ‘tolerance,’ Christian students find their faith being openly mocked and belittled in educational environments.”
Tuttle said that he “felt duped” by the event. “There were Christian schools who went to the conference. To have this happen was disappointing and shocking.”
And for some of his students ? they felt like the anti-bullying activist was in fact ? the bully.’ - FOX
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Seems like most stayed. Tons of cheering and a mere statement of facts.[/quote]
Remember that anti-bullying thread? Here’s the actual feelings behind it all. Out in the light.
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You realize the root cause of anti-gay bigotry in North America is the Bible right?
I don’t know how you could give a talk on anti-gay bigotry without mentioning religion.
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[quote]Brother Chris wrote:[quote]Tiribulus wrote:He does hate homosexuals.[/quote]Damn…sounds just like WBC. [/quote]Don’t make me pull out your Friar from Our Lady of Guadalupe again Chris who quite rightly stated in plain language that the notion of God hating, but loving sinners is a modernist invention. I gave him credit and still do. [quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote: I can’t think of a single person I know who doesn’t commit this sin multiple times on a daily basis. >>>[/quote]We have a winner boys and girls. ALL that is not born from explicit faith in the one true God is sin no matter how right it may in itself appear to us. Giving to the poor out of any motivation other than self conscious love for and the glory of the Lord of the universe is sin. All that is not of faith IS sin. This is your cue to turn that passage upside down now too Chris =] I say it’s a sort of moral syllogism with the part I quoted above as the major premise. The exact inverse of what you are going to say.
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