Try to keep up: The dehumanizing bigotries that fall from the lips of “faithful Christians,” and the lies about us that vomit out from the pulpits of churches that “faithful Christians” drag their kids to on Sundays, give your children license to verbally abuse, humiliate, and condemn the gay children they encounter at school. And many of your children—having listened to Mom and Dad talk about how gay marriage is a threat to family and how gay sex makes their magic sky friend Jesus cry—feel justified in physically abusing the LGBT children they encounter in their schools. You don’t have to explicitly “encourage [your] children to mock, hurt, or intimidate” queer kids. Your encouragement—along with your hatred and fear—is implicit. It’s here, it’s clear, and we’re seeing the fruits of it: dead children. Oh, and those same dehumanizing bigotries that fill your straight children with hate? They fill your gay children with suicidal despair. And you have the nerve to ask me to be more careful with my words? -Dan Savage (bad language alert!)
A question: The next time a Christian is killed, should Dan Savage take the blame? After all, Mr. Savage’s statement is a rather blatant hateful attack against Christian belief and action.
Or don’t Christians count as people? No, in the modern worldview, Christians are not “people.” They are the backwards results of a failure to evolve who may be safely discarded. In fact, anyone who is “religious,” in the “wrong way,” is implicitly inciting violence (rather than openly inciting violence, as Mr. Savage does here). To tell them your belief, your thought, is to make them depressed. To speak or think something outside the community’s accepted beliefs is inciting violence.
It doesn’t matter what’s true, what matters is whether or not it hurts the feelings of the right sorts of people.
Be careful with your discarding attitude towards truth.
Truth votes last.
You can lie to yourself (and others) about the result of stepping off a 20 story building. No, the fall will not hurt. All the way down, you can deny the truth. It might even hurt your feelings to tell you that you are about to step off the edge of a building —but the sudden stop at the bottom, when truth finally votes, will hurt a lot more than your feelings.
The truth is gay marriage will destroy marriage in the US –there is no ground on which you can base gay marriage that will not destroy marriage itself. And I reject Mr. Savage’s statement that rejecting gay marriage is exposing a hatred for gays, because I simply don’t hate gay people.
I reject Mr. Savage’s implication that spending time to think through an issue and deciding that a particular path is all based on fear and hatred, and that religious belief is unreasonable, based on “faith outside thought.” That Mr. Savage, and the left in general, must resort to invective hate to make their points tells me that they don’t have a real argument to make.
