I watched CNN this morning as they ran the story about “anti-bullying” speaker Dan Savage verbally cursing Christian teens:
The conservative website CitizenLink was the first to report about the controversy. They interviewed a 17-year-old girl who was one of students who walked out of the auditorium.
“The first thing he told the audience was, ‘I hope you’re all using birth control,’” she told CitizenLink. “he said there are people using the Bible as an excuse 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.”
As the teenagers were walking out, Tuttle said that Savage heckled them and called them pansy-assed.
This story has been in the news for days but what struck me as I watched the video of the teens filing out of Savage’s talk was how different their protest and behavior was from that of leftist students who do not like what a speaker is saying. Leftist students will often disrupt right-leaning speakers, such as Ann Coulter at the University of Connecticut or David Horowitz with boos at Emory and keep them from speaking. Leftist students will even storm the stage and attack speakers if they don’t like what is being said such as the time they attacked Jim Gilchrist, the founder of the Minutemen, a group that patrols the border between America and Mexico.
Notice the Christian students allowed Savage to keep speaking and left themselves. It is ironic that the group Savage is condemning is more tolerant of free speech that any group he seems to support.
– middle-aged “teenager”.
When did Savage ever express tolerance for, or belief in, free speech?
He is a representative of a movement which has its modern roots in Maoism, which is not an ideology known for its tolerance of dissent—and he is convinced that he is correct and that everyone else is wrong. He does not appear to recognize the right to disagree, on any basis, let alone the right to be wrong.
Maoism, or Mao-maoism?
The post-Stonewall gay-rights movement was a Maoist movement, which adopted Mao-Maoing as a tactic.
I expect no better from leftists.
He even insulted them as they left; called them “pussies” and such.
Read “Paradise Lost” sometime. There’s a brilliant bit in there about the angel Abdiel. When the angels are talking about rebelling, he says (paraphrased), “You’re all going to be destroyed and I’m not going to be destroyed with you.” Then…
So spake the Seraph Abdiel, faithful found
Among the faithless, faithful only he;
Among innumerable false, unmoved,
Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified,
His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal;
Nor number, nor example, with him wrought
To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind,
Though single. From amidst them forth he passed,
Long way through hostile scorn, which he sustained
Superior, nor of violence feared aught;
And, with retorted scorn, his back he turned
On those proud towers to swift destruction doomed.
Those kids who walked out were all Abdiel. God bless their strength to withstand the hostile scorn.
And insulted them with a “homophobic” slur. Almost like at some level he has a problem with effeminity.
Of course, Mr. Savage (or would that be Ms. Savage, since it has a “male life partner”) doesn’t have the courage to treat Muslims the same way. He knows no Christian would be offended enough to punch him in the face.
“Punch him in the face”? Ask Theo Van Gogh if he got “punched in the face.”
Dr. Smith: Leftists live in their own phantasy world. They think of themselves as the good guys and everyone on the Right as the bad guys. Thus these good guys can be uncivil, can be bullying, can be bigoted, can be racists, can be inventive of false facts, and can just about do anything they want because it promotes their ‘good causes.’ So, when Stalin’s policies led to the death of million in the Ukraine, he was doing it for the good utopia he was establishing, and no Leftist dare say anything critical; and they think of themselves as more intelligent than those on the Right, but that’s another phantasy.
Keep in mind that Dan Savage is also an admitted Bio-Terrorist.
Several years ago he volunteered for a Local Republican’s campaign (I beleive it was Gary Bauer) and spent his time licking doorknobs and cauging onto phones and rubbing his hand on his nose then on the pens in order to spread his influenza virus that he was suffering from.
He wrote an article Bragging about his actions in The Stranger.
Looks like the Savage beast got the ‘santorum’ all over himself.
did the anti bully just bully- sounds like south park are the real prophets these days
(see south park)
And all too soon, we might see Dan Savage naked and jackin’ it in San Diego.
Great episode, wasn’t it?
The irony meter has asploded.