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Everyone deserves to be respected for who they are. I pledge to spread this message to my friends, family and neighbors. I'll speak up against hate and intolerance whenever I see it, at school and at work. I'll provide hope for lesbian, gay, bi, trans and other bullied teens by letting them know that "It Gets Better.
I'll speak up against hate and intolerance whenever I see it
and other bullied teens
In 2006, Savage said that Green Party Senate candidate Carl Romanelli, who was running against Democrat Bob Casey (the eventual winner), “should be dragged behind a pickup truck until there’s nothing left but the rope.” Casey was so offended he refused Savage’s campaign donations.
I'll speak up against hate and intolerance whenever I see it
Back in July 2011, we covered his comments that monogamy holds the potential to destroy “more families than it saves.” Around the same time, he said of Republicans, ”I wish they were all f**king dead,“ during an appearance on ”Real Time With Bill Maher.”
During 2009, Savage tried to coin the term “Saddlebacking” in order to target pro-Proposition 8 Saddleback Church Pastor Rick Warren; he defined the term as “the phenomenon of Christian teens engaging in unprotected anal sex in order to preserve their virginities.” Savage also said, “F— you, Utah,” since Mormons largely backed Proposition 8.
With all of this information in mind, it’s certainly warranted — at the least — to question the Obama administration’s connections to Savage. The president didn‘t tolerate Rush Limbaugh’s comments about Sandra Fluke, so one wonders how he and his administration are able to overlook these glaring issues (apparently MTV, too, ignores these incidents, as Savage was given his own show on the network geared toward young people).
Back in 2000, the White House’s favorite bully, Dan Savage, was hired by Salon.com to infiltrate the Gary Bauer presidential campaign. He became so frustrated with Bauer’s religiosity that after contracting the flu, he decided to go around the office licking doorknobs in order to infect the other staffers, including Bauer.
Savage even handed Bauer the saliva-coated pen, hoping to infect him with the flu.
I pulled the pen out of my mouth and handed it to him. Score! My bodily fluids -- flu bugs and all -- were all over his hand!
Savage then proceeded to vote in the Iowa caucuses, although he wasn’t registered in the state.
This is the sick bully the White House chooses to advocate the anti-bullying cause.
Originally posted by gentledissident
I've just heard of this guy. So far, he's heroic to me.
Originally posted by Resurected
reply to post by beezzer
So all those people with "God Hates Fags!!" signs at political rallys are really gov plants huh.. Wow..
*Insert sarcasm all over this post*
Originally posted by beezzer
reply to post by sonnny1
The thing is, he's saying what the president is thinking.
A White House "Anti-bully" Czar who bullies to get his message across.
Maybe he's teaching the way NOT to do something.
Originally posted by Turq1
The people that are making a big deal about this aren't being very good Christians it could be argued. Make a big deal about the double standard that many live by and defend, which he pointed out. If you're saying two standards are fine really you're just condemning yourself as a Christian.
Dan Savage was born to William and Judy Savage in Chicago, Illinois.[6] He is of Irish ancestry.[7] The third of four children,[6] Savage was raised as a Roman Catholic and attended Quigley Preparatory Seminary North, which he has described as "a Catholic high school in Chicago for boys thinking of becoming priests."[8] Though Savage has stated that he is now "a wishy-washy agnostic" and an atheist,[9] he has said that he still considers himself "culturally Catholic."
Savage attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he studied theater and history.[6] As a theater director, Savage (working under the name "Keenan Hollahan") was a founder of Seattle's Greek Active Theater.[10] Much of the group's work has been queer recontextualizations of classic works, such as a tragicomic Macbeth with both the title character and Lady Macbeth played by performers of the opposite sex. In March 2001, he directed his own Egguus at Consolidated Works, a parody of Peter Shaffer's 1973 play Equus which exchanged a fixation on horses for a fixation on chickens. Savage has not directed, produced, or performed in any productions since a 2003 production of Letters from the Earth, also at Consolidated Works, his trimmed version of Mark Twain's The Diary of Adam and Eve, which received scathing reviews, including one from his own paper, "My Boss's Show Stinks".[11]
Savage and his husband, Terry, have one adopted son, D.J.,[12] and were married in Vancouver, BC in 2005.
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Originally posted by RealSpoke
reply to post by sonnny1
A community organizer could be anything really. All it means is that individuals band together to speak as a group to promote activism. It has acquired some sort of progressive reputation but it could be used to recruit KKK members.
Savage acts normal in some videos and a fanatical lunatic in others. He seems bi-polar/short tempered. Though I don't know enough about him to make a formal opinion.
edit on 30-4-2012 by RealSpoke because: (no reason given)