Dan Savage Says FRC Leader 'Dances a Jig' at Teen Suicides
While CNN suspends (or fires) its on-air personalities for Twitter horseplay, perhaps they should turn that sensitivity around on the “defamation” police that demand the firings. Dan Savage, promoted as a positive force by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, is quite skilled at defamation. The Dallas Voice supportively reports the latest outburst, from Denton, Texas:
“Every time LGBT bullying kills a kid, Tony Perkins gets up from his desk and dances a jig,” Savage claimed about Family Research Council president during Savage’s keynote speech at the 12th Annual University of North Texas “Equity and Diversity Conference” on Tuesday. “Every LGBT youth suicide for them is a victory, a rhetorical and moral victory,” Savage added.
Savage's last appearance on CNN was last June on the now-defunct Joy Behar show, when he demanded a suspended Southwest Airlines pilot be fired for anti-gay speech. (They really love getting people fired.) Savage was also honored in a year-end “gay rights” review piece on NPR, where he also singled out Perkins: “increasingly, straight people are demonstrating their support in ways that really touch my heart and terrify Tony Perkins.”
Savage is perhaps best known in 2011 for going on Bill Maher's HBO show and proclaiming not only that “I sometimes think about f**king the s**t out of Rick Santorum," but said of Republicans "I wish they were all fucking dead!" (NPR had no questions about that at year's end). But the gay activists (and their media allies) present Savage implausibly as an anti-bullying voice:
Savage admitted to the crowd made up mostly of students that the It Gets Better project can’t end bullying.
“[However, that] does not excuse or preclude us from doing more …” Savage continued, “from confronting bullies, from holding schools and teachers and preachers and parents responsible for what they do or don’t do or fail to do for LGBT kids in pain.”
That’s why Savage’s project has supported Sen. Al Franken’s Student Non-Discrimination Act as well as the efforts of groups like the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, the Trevor Project and the American Civil Liberties Union.
“[The Trevor Project] is there to talk kids off the ledge,” Savage said, “GLSEN is there to make sure there are fewer kids in our schools climbing out onto that ledge and the ACLU is there to sue the crap out of schools that push kids onto that ledge.”
...But instead of letting kids act out the violence of their adult role-models who bash gays at the pulpit and the ballot box, Savage called on school members to actively oppose anti-LGBT bullying and on liberal and more progressive Christians to stop “the complicit silence … aiding them and abetting [the religious right] in their crimes.”
PS: Perhaps a Straight Alliance Against Defamation should give Savage a ticket for tweets like this one:
Label all homo-social contact "gay" and we make straight men crazy and violent. Or crazier and violenter.
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A man of tolerance and diversity
Submitted by JeffC... on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 10:21pm.
… so he's allowed to slander others.
Not that this makes it right,
Submitted by balboa on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 10:31pm.
Not that this makes it right, but I think savage would say he's just fighting fire with fire.
⇒ Right, Bal
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 10:34pm.
Because the first thing a rational person thinks of as a means of punishment for perceived involvement in another person's decision is to rape them in the butt?
Since he'd be raping a man, that makes it different?
What are you saying, exactly?
⇒ Does this mean
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 10:51pm.
Does this mean Al Sharpton deserves the same punishment because of Tawanna Brawley?
Is that just "fighting fire with fire"?
Ludicrous balbo bull
Submitted by Tim Graham on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 11:01pm.
That would be true, if we were in the habit of dancing the jig after teen suicides.
That's beyond a cartoon. That's just making evil stuff up.
And I agree with you. But I
Submitted by balboa on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 11:28pm.
And I agree with you. But I think HE sees what the right says and does in opposition to gay rights as metaphorically dancing a jig, or that you might as well be.
I think it's a shame that someone who has that much influence chooses to communicate in such a crude fashion. It doesn't help him, IMO.
Well, you're right, Savage
Submitted by redfish on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 11:37pm.
Well, you're right, Savage first, has shown that he lacks empathy with those who don't agree with him, and second, he thinks he's entitled to act any way he wants if he thinks he's right. But that's what makes him just like any other bully.
Fighting Fire with a Flamethrower
Submitted by Jimi Streets on Thu, 02/09/2012 - 2:39am.
One of the many things that has always disgusted me about liberals was the fact that they get away with launching verbal nukes daily. Never get called on it.
A kind, no doubt genteel minister merely relating what The Bible has to say about homosexuality is attacked from all sides. Conservatives often have their careers ended for speaking the truth.
Example # 742,871 of proof that the world is up-freaking-side down.
Have conservative politicians noticed that the Family Research Council has been around for a long time because they actually stand up, dig in, and FIGHT BACK against the Liberal Hordes of Hate?
By responding to your post, I
Submitted by redfish on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 10:40pm.
By responding to your post, I think I'm engaging you in "homo-social" contact.
⇒ Silly Savage
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 10:31pm.
Let me get this straight. Savage dreams of coating himself in another man's excrement?
Can't we just reroute sewer pipes to his house.
Dan Savage is a bully, so
Submitted by moderncommentaries83 on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 10:41pm.
Dan Savage is a bully, so when he speaks of bullying, he knows what he's talking about...he engages in bullying every single day.
Dan Savage is a savage
Submitted by bakedflounder on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 11:37pm.
He is a disgusting, venom-filled, vile gay pustule on the ass of society. And that says a lot coming from a gay person.
Doesn't this self-loathing
Submitted by killa37 on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 11:51pm.
Doesn't this self-loathing flaming fruitcake faggot know that 'dancing a jig' is a HIGHLY 'racist' statement??? And you can guaran-DAMN-tee that this seething slimeball voted for Barry - who's also light in the loafers.
Yeah, and some even consider him a ...
Submitted by Newsbubba on Thu, 02/09/2012 - 8:11am.
... well, we won't even go there.
Who IS Savage? Is he the Queen of LuGButT United or something?
When did sociopathy become acceptable?
Submitted by drsamherman on Thu, 02/09/2012 - 12:12am.
Sociopathy is a mental illness, no matter how the patient tries to justify it. I have heard every excuse under the sun, from the usual "my childhood was unhappy" to "those people make me so mad I just can't stop myself" to "the devil made me do it".
Bal, the parallel of "fighting fire with fire" will not work and at least you mentioned that it was not right. Problem is, NO ONE on the left will ever condemn Savage's vile and disgusting speech. I have to hear any mainstream leftie talking head strongly disagreeing with him because of their pretentious guilt complex. It is getting tiresome, and sooner or later Savage will have to account for his diatribe.
I notice that he seems quite bigoted against heterosexuals, and one can only wonder if this is a manifestation of something more troubling.
Do tell,
Submitted by killa37 on Thu, 02/09/2012 - 12:19am.
Do tell, Doc..............you're loyal apprentice, Intern Killa, is interested in those purported 'manifestations'.
Since you asked and for EDUCATIONAL purposes only:
Submitted by drsamherman on Thu, 02/09/2012 - 12:32am.
Sociopathy itself manifests primarily as an antisocial personality disorder in a layered symptomatic fashion. What this means is the antisocial personality disorder consists of visual manifestations such as lying, absolute disregard for welfare of others, etc. as defined more closely in the DSM-IV(TR). These patients have zero regard for right and wrong and will often engage in behaviors (sometimes quite violent) simply to provoke a reaction from others. There is a heavy element of narcissism and cluster B attention-seeking with a majority of these patients. The other aspect of the layering is an accompanying serious mood disorder or dissociative disorder or both. Example: a narcissistic antisocial personality disorder patient may present with bipolar type I with accompanying dissociative symptoms strongly suggesting schizophrenia. This is not an absolute, but most personality disorders are simply the publicly visible signs of Axis I disorders (mood & dissociative as I mentioned). Add in an element of substance abuse or dependence and you have one hell of a difficult patient.
So basically, he's just a
Submitted by killa37 on Thu, 02/09/2012 - 12:36am.
So basically, he's just a self-absorbed, attention-seeking, narrow-minded, hateful, angry, scumbag????? Too bad he's a fairy, otherwise he might get called out on his BS - kinda like Barry being 'black', right??? If you or I threw down the gauntlet on his jaded and depraved views, WE would be the ones who are 'intolerant' and 'bigoted' and 'homophobic'...............and you've GOT to know that a lot of these 'journalists' don't agree with him, but they don't have the gonads to lay it on the line.
Soooooo ...
Submitted by Newsbubba on Thu, 02/09/2012 - 11:45am.
... to help me better understand your clarification of the Doc's explanation, you're saying that Savage is an a$$hole, right?
I can go with that.
Thanks Doc, and intern!
Oh yes, Bubba, he's an asshole.
Submitted by drsamherman on Thu, 02/09/2012 - 11:50am.
I will not comment beyond that for fear of using language that would have me kicked off the board!
Hey-->check out the hatchet job in the latest Rolling Stone
Submitted by merly1 on Thu, 02/09/2012 - 12:28am.
Absolutely trash journalism about the rash of student suicides that they try
lay at the feet of the Anoka school district in MN for "bullying." A district ravaged by Owebama;s
bad economy, and oddly there is never cell phone video of any of the bullying................
The story even distorts reality about the district
being--OF COURSE--in Michelle Bachmann's district-->it is part in hers and part in Eric Paulsen's--
yet 100% in Dems Dayton, Klobuchar, Franken's sphere but oddly they arent mentioned ;o) Shock, huh?
It is purely from the perspective of the victims or a few teachers, some of whom are homosexual
but an article totally devoid of professional analysis.
A must read if you want to see how the media distorts the truth (ie the district investigated every suicide
and found no relation to bullying-->and Dayton/Klobe/Franken havent called the district a liar).
Article easily found online..........................
Hmmm...
Submitted by Dave the mailman on Thu, 02/09/2012 - 12:54am.
So Savage is so strongly opposed to GAY bullying that he seeks out a public forum so he can bad-mouth, slander, and spew all kinds of vile filth about people he doesn't like? Apparently he's ok with hetero bullying.
Infuriating
Submitted by ljacone on Thu, 02/09/2012 - 9:00am.
This guy is doubly infuriating.
First off, his obvious hatred of straight men is infuriating, since I am a straight man. How this garbage-spewing lunatic is lauded for his "tolerance" is beyond me.
But secondly, he and his ilk's conscription of an actual, real-life problem -- school age bullying -- into an exclusive gay rights talking point is even more infuriating. There is a legitimate problem in schools (and has been for a long time) with bullying, but to suggest that all bullying activity revolves about homosexuality is not only uninformed, it is a slap in the face to the masses of kids who are bullied because of their size, or their family financial status, or their looks, or any number of things which have NOTHING TO DO with the gay rights lobby. Some of the anti-bullying organizations have a more diffuse focus which makes them more legitimate, but the only ones who get any attention from the media are the rabid gay rights lobby controlled elements like this nutjob.
It's absolutely amazing to me the numbers of homosexual "public figures" who on one hand will claim that they are "just like everyone else," but then on the other hand constantly proclaim themselves to be "different from all of you" as well as "better than the rest of you."
EXACTLY!
Submitted by GW on Thu, 02/09/2012 - 10:44am.
I can imagine a phone call to their suicide prevention hotline.
Kid: "I'm thinking of ending it all because of all the bullying I'm getting at school."
Operator: "Were you bullied because you're gay?"
Kid: "Well, no..."
Operator: "I can't help you then. You need to call the LOSER'S suicide prevention hotline. Ha ha!"
Who stole the 'C' off the podium?
Submitted by SickofLibs on Thu, 02/09/2012 - 10:22am.
.
Good one, SoL!!!! As the
Submitted by killa37 on Thu, 02/09/2012 - 2:31pm.
Good one, SoL!!!! As the bluesmen might say.......................TROOF!!!!
SoL, winner and ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Thu, 02/09/2012 - 6:56pm.
still CHAMP !
LMAO.
MD
Dan Savage
Submitted by djwolf12 on Thu, 02/09/2012 - 1:54pm.
He shouldn't get his ass kicked because he is gay. He should get his ass kicked because he is a douchebag. Being gay doesn't matter for him, but that is already his excuse to walk between the raindrops. Remember, this is the man that stated that he wanted to have angry HATE SEX (RAPE) on Rick Santorum.