The Story: As many as 100 high school students
walked out of a national journalism conference after Dan Savage, a
homosexual activist and anti-bullying speaker began cursing, attacked
the Bible, and used a homosexual slur to refer to those who refused to
listen to his message.
The Background:
Savage was invited to deliver the keynote address during the National
High School Journalism Conference sponsored by the Journalism Education
Association and the National Scholastic Press Association. Instead of
giving the expected talk about bullying, CitizenLink notes, the students got "an earful about birth control, sex, and Savage's opinions on the Bible."
"The first thing he told the audience was, 'I hope you're all using birth control,'" a student told CitizenLink.
"He said there are people using the Bible as an exc 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." In the video of the incident, Salvage heckles the teenagers who walked out of his rant.
Why It Matters: Despite being an "anti-bullying
activist," Savage has a reputation for being a reprehensible bully who
uses some of most disgusting tactics imaginable against people he hates.
In 2001, during the Republican primary in 2000, Savage traveled to Iowa
and became a campaign volunteer for Gary Bauer. During the trip, Savage
became sick---"I had the flu in a big way"---and decided to use his
illness as a bioweapon against Bauer and his staff. He boasts that he... Continue at Joe Carter
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