Friend of mine on Facebook posted a Foxnews article on Dan Savage's speech at a conference on student journalism.
It was an interesting article and i responded on FB. I'm including my response here: Another opinion of the Dan Savage speech by an actual student newspaper, "the urban legend" (link below.)
According to their article, Savage mentioned how the bible is often ignored on numerous issues and should be ignored on discrimination of LGBT youth. He did peppered the statement with the "BS" swear. (see quote below) Article reports that he only chided the students after they decided to walk out on his speech.
Savage is the sex columnist who was so offended by Rick Santorum comparing homosexuality to beastiality that he created a Santorum Google bomb. What did people expect? Did they only attend so they could storm out and make a statement. Weak. They are supposed to be aspiring journalists.
Also, Savage's comments that were true. Many people ignore much of the bible (pork, shellfish, wearing multiple types of cloth together, sale of daughters, etc.). Saying they were offended by his language is a weak argument considering there is more swearing, implied sex and misogyny in the average music video. Besides, they want to be journalists. We need tough journalist in this day and age of pre-packaged BS news. Journalism is a contact sport....wear a cup!
Here's the quote from the student magazine: (NOTE: I added the ' * ' since it was not my original Facebook post.).
"Savage pointed to faith and the tensions it can create for LGBT youth. But he said that religious dogma shouldn’t dictate how parents and educators respond to gay teens. “We can learn to ignore the bullsh*t in the Bible about gay people, the same way we have learned to ignore the bullsh*t in the Bible about shellfish, about slavery, about dinner, about farming, about menstruation, about virginity, about masturbation,” Savage said. “We ignore bullsh*t in the Bible about all sorts of things.”
Whole article can be found here: http://www.urbanlegendnews.org/news/2012/04/14/savage-speech-shocks-inspires-high-school-journalists-at-the-nspa-convention/
Fox news: http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/anti-bullying-speaker-curses-mocks-christian-teens.html
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