Answer 1: Actually, we can. He’s a low-life, intellectually dishonest, hypocrite.
Answer 2: We can’t because unfortunately he’s part of a growing strata of our society who are becoming highly aggressive, highly violent, and believe they can force their morality (or lack of) on other people (in this case children).
Case Study
Watch this video. (but not with children in the room)
Dan Savage beats up high schoolers
So what is going on here? Why would this man come out so strong on this issue choosing a audience of impressionable teens? My primary answer is “ratings”. Nobody cares if he says this stuff in front of adults. They wouldn’t give him the time of day, or call him on his errors. But get a captive audience of children, then tape yourself intentionally beating them up verbally… now that will get you the front page. I believe that’s why he did this. No question.
But, to get back to the original question, let’s take the first answer first. “Actually we can [ignore him], He’s a low-life, intellectually dishonest, hypocrite.”
This is so very true. His ‘biblical arguments’ in the video above are obvious proof text segments from the Bible that don’t even make sense out of context. Read correctly, they simply don’t apply to anyone for various reasons. Christians aren’t ignoring them, they simply no longer apply. Any intelligent adult can refute his claims with one brain tied behind their back. So, he either knows his error very well, and therefore is being extremely intellectually dishonest (lying), or he really and truly doesn’t know what he’s talking about at all and therefore shouldn’t be setting himself up as an authority on the subject. Personally, I believe the first case. But either way, he shouldn’t be allowed to be around children.
In short, I think that Dan Savage actually knows his actions are very dishonest and was using this as an intimidation tactic to gain a national press presence. Therefore, his arguments, and his career for that matter, should and will be discredited and disregarded by any and all truly intellectual free thinkers.
Okay, on to the second answer: “We can’t [ignore him] because unfortunately he’s part of a growing strata of our society who are becoming highly aggressive, highly violent, and believe they can force their lack of morality on other people (in this case children).”
Well, time for the bad news. As far as I can see, this type of thing is only going to get worse. As society continues to cave to the bullying pressure of the violent segment of the homosexual movement, it will continue to get stronger.
I will reiterate what many have said before me… These people fain ‘tolerance’, but themselves are some of the most intolerant people on the planet. They cry foul and demand legislation when someone looks at them sideways, but then openly assault defenseless unsuspecting children for their political gain. It’s just hypocritical.
Don’t worry about him though. Dan will fare very well from this, be confident of that. He’s likely already receiving many checks in the mail from this media frenzy. And I don’t think this is the last time we’ll hear from Dan. I’m sure he has many more stunts like this up his sleeve.
This country in general, and Oregon in specific has a sever lack of perspective with regard to the laws we let our representatives discuss and pass. We’re passing bills left and right and the public mindset for some reason seems to be “the more laws, the better”. I feel like I’m the only one in Oregon that thinks congress should just stop passing laws. Period. Stick to solving our current budget crisis.
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