Dan Savage to xtian whose feelings got hurt by his comments: "Fuck your feelings"

[WillParkinson]

Dan Savage

"The religious right points to the suicide rate among gay teenagers — which the religious right works so hard to drive up as evidence that the gay lifestyle is destructive. It's like intentionally running someone down with your car and then claiming that it isn't safe to walk the streets.

"Which is why I argued that every gay teen suicide is a victory for the religious right. Because, you see, your side does use those suicides to 'perpetuate agenda.' Tony Perkins and all those other oddly effete defenders of 'Christian values' and 'traditional marriage' will point to this recent spate of gay teen suicides to argue against gay marriage, anti-bullying programs, against allowing gay people to serve in the military—basically, they'll gleefully use these tragedies to justify what they like to call the 'Christian, pro-family agenda.'" - Dan Savage, responding to a woman who wrote to say that her feelings were hurt by his claim that Christians are responsible for gay teen suicides.

Read Savage's complete response. It begins: "I'm sorry your feelings were hurt by my comments. No, wait. I'm not. Gay kids are dying. So let's try to keep things in perspective: fuck your feelings."

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2010/10/homoquotable-dan-savage.html

[cleanhippie]

1. It is impossible for me to agree with Savage

more than I already do. Well put, man, well put.



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[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. ooooooo,

got me with that one.

Savage Love appears in the Chicago Reader, a great free weekly in, er, ah, Chicago.

[cleanhippie]

3. I cannot be accused of not having a sense of humor.

[myrna minx]

4. K&R

;applause:

[Mimosa]

5. Direct link to Savage Love column

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2010/10/01/sl-letter-of-the-day-sorry-nothing-fun

Will, it's a chore to have to click to a commentary about an original Dan Savage column to have to locate the link to the original.

[WillParkinson]

7. I think we disagree here...

Joe.My.God is where I found out about the article in the first place. Therefore I posted the link where I got it from. It also gives people here an opportunity to see what his readers have to say, should they so desire and, again if they desire, take part in the conversation.

Yes, I could have just linked to the full article, but that would be doing a disservice to Joe.My.God (at least that's how I see it).

[msongs]

6. Campus Pride vs Campus Crusade for you know who - one is love the other is not nt

[AndyTiedye]

8. This is SOOOOO kicked and recommended

:kick:

[mix]

9. I agree, fuck those xtian bigots. nt

[whathehell]

11. ...and of course

only "xtians" are bigots.:eyes: and all "xtians" are "Right wing Repukes"?...NOT.

Check your demographics..Most PEOPLE in this country are Christian, at least in name, and No,I don't think most people in the country could be called "bigots".

[mix]

12. and of course you've misconstrued my statement

to grind your axe

[whathehell]

13. Sure...

as you've misconstrued mine to grind yours.

[Name removed]

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[whathehell]

16. Here...Learn some manners:

http://www.emilypost.com/

After that, you may have to re-learn the DU Rules.

[mix]

17. Aren't false smears and baseless attacks bad manners? nt

[mix]

18. your lesson for the day:

learn some grammar--what a demonstrative adjective is--before you smear me w/o reason for being anti-Christian
http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000329.htm
"those," as in "those xtian bigots," as opposed to Christians who are not

:rofl:

[whathehell]

23. Your lesson for today:

Hyperbolic hissy fits get you laughed at.

Name-calling gets you deleted.:rofl:

[mix]

26. It was worth it, now hit the books before you smear w/o cause again

and someone else comes to the same conclusion as I did about your judgment and reading skills.

Just trying to help.

[whathehell]

27. LOL!

:rofl:

[mix]

28. laughter is always better than tears

:hug:

[whathehell]

29. Because..

..of your devasting wit?

Sorry, bro..You're not there.:rofl:

[mix]

30. Johnny Cash is a good example of a Christian who wasn't a bigot.

I think this picture sums up his attitude toward the "righteous."

[whathehell]

33. Well, good...

We agree on something...But Johnny's not alone.

"Christians", despite some evangelicals who limit that term to themselves, consist also of Catholics and Mainstream Protestants, like Episcopalians and Lutherans, to name a few.

Those groups,In fact, outnumber the evangelicals.

[progressoid]

31. You edited your post and it's still is full of crap.

No where did he say the things you are implying.


Fail.

[whathehell]

34. Uh huh.....such a SUBstantial post

but "fail" to you too, bro, uh huh.:headbang:

[GodlessBiker]

10. Outstanding.

[DirkGently]

15. Time for decent Christians to clean house & chuck the wingers, as they keep telling Muslims to do.

[RetiredTrotskyite]

19. K&R

So their little feewings were hurt? Awwwwww. Now you know a taste of what GLBT people have been going through for centuries. It would seem the Christianists can dish it out, but the certainly don't seem able to take it.

[Iggo]

20. OH SHIT!

:applause:

[applegrove]

21. Good for Dan Savage. This needed to be said.

[bluestateguy]

22. Never apologize! To apologize is a sign of exploitable weakness.

Like little Dickie Durbin blubbering on the Senate floor.

[whathehell]

24. So...

when the U.S.apologized for experimenting on unsuspecting Guatamalans,

this was a sign of "weakness"?:shrug:

[TexasObserver]

25. recommend

[eleny]

32. Rec'd

Between these thoughts of Savage's on the homophobes and Matt Taibbi's on the Teabaggers, I'm encouraged. Enough is enough.