Dan Savage - the activist accountable for the It Gets Better campaign according to bullying - stirred up a little bit controversy this week when he gave a speech on the National Highschool Journalist Conference in Seattle and told those in attendance:
We can learn how to “learn how to ignore the bullshit inside the Bible about gay people.”
Savage went directly to compare these passages to these regarding shell fish, menstruation and, especially, slavery, saying the bible is a "pro-slavery document," but we've grown to search past those parts while honoring what's really important within its pages.
Watch video excerpts of the lecture now, as a couple of dozen attendees rise up and walk out according to Savage's comments:
Dan Savage at the Bible: Ignore Homosexual BS!
“It’s funny, as someone who’s at the receiving end of beatings which are justified by the Bible, how pansy-ass some people react once you beat back,” he said to students leaving in protest, although Savage apologized for this phrasing in a blog post on Sunday, writing:
I wish to apologize for describing that walk out as a pansy-a---- move. I wasn’t calling the handful of scholars who left pansies (2800+ students, most of them Christian, stayed and listened), just the walk-out itself. But that’s a distinction with out a difference-kinda like when religious conservatives tells their gay friends that they ‘love the sinner, hate the sin.’
They’re often shocked when their gay friends get upset because, hey, they were creating a distinction between the individual (lovable!) and the individual’s actions (not rather a lot!). But gay people feel insulted by ‘love the sinner, hate the sin’ as it is insulting. Likewise, my use of ‘pansy-a----’ was insulting, it was name-calling, and it was wrong. And that i apologize for saying it.
But is Savage sorry for his analysis of the bible? No.
“i didn't attack Christianity. I attacked hypocrisy," he says.
SHOULD Savage apologize? You let us know:
| Yes, that's so offensive! | |
| No, I completely accept as true with what he said! | |
| No, freedom of speech! | |
From WhatNewsToday.net
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