By Nicholas Stix
The essay below, by Republican Christian writer Todd Starnes, is about the abuse that militant homosexualist Dan Savage heaped on Christian high school kids at a speech Savage gave at “the National High School Journalism Conference sponsored by the Journalism Education Association and the National Scholastic Press Association.”
There were only two things that anyone considering taking students to the conference needed to know about it: Dan Savage and “anti-bullying.”
Savage is notorious for being as gross, intolerant, and militantly anti-Christian as any homosexualist out there.
Why would the journalism coordinator of a Christian high school bring students to a talk by Dan Savage? There is no secret as to what Savage is all about, and so any journalism coordinator that would subject his Christian students to Savage’s abuse is either a homosexualist or leftist, or hopelessly incompetent. It only takes seconds for anyone to google under Savage’s name, and learn what he is all about.
Anyone who has spent any time studying the so-called anti-bullying movement in our nation’s schools knows that it has nothing at all to do with its name, but rather is a movement of militant, homosexual bullies and their leftwing allies grooming children to become homosexuals, getting privileges for homosexuals, degrading normal kids and Christianity, and promoting promiscuity and leftwing politics.
Actually, you don’t even have to study the movement, as I have. All you have to do is have a normal child in school, read the “anti-bullying” propaganda he is forced to read, supervise him drawing a required “anti-bullying” propaganda poster, and then try to get the school to act against a real bully. If you don’t say your child is “gay,” the school will do nothing. But threaten to sue, and they’ll come around. I speak from hard-won experience.
I refrained from telling my son that he was reading homosexualist propaganda, because he would have flown into a rage.
When I was his age, I didn’t even know what a homosexual was, but today we can’t turn on the TV, without the “news” pushing some militant homosexual in our faces.
As for the incident at the conference, clearly it was planned. The Journalism Education Association and the National Scholastic Press Association invited Savage because they support homosexualization, and hate Christians. And if you believe Dan Savage's assertion that he “is on the receiving end of beatings that are justified by the Bible,” I have a great deal for you on a slightly used bridge. Dan Savage has known nothing but homosexual privilege.
The initial joint statement by the JEA and NSPA called the incident “a teachable moment” for students. That it was, but the opposite of what they meant by it. However, the Christian kids were old enough not to have been harmed by what they heard, and the ones who walked out, did exactly the right thing. People and organizations like Savage, JEA, and NSPA believe that no one has a right to disagree with them, that everyone must be “sensitive” to (read: submit to and celebrate) their politics, while they live to humiliate and abuse anyone who dissents from their totalitarian, evil beliefs. The students who walked out maintained their dignity, and refused to lower themselves to the level of Savage and the JEA and NSPA.
Meanwhile, if I were the principal, or on the board of a Christian school whose journalism coordinator took our kids to this conference, I’d be looking for a new coordinator.
Some of are you surely laughing, because I’m not a Christian, yet I noticed when I taught at my first college, a Catholic school, that I showed the Mother Church a lot more respect than my bosses did, especially my Irish supervisor, with her close-cropped, red hair, English officer’s sweaters, feminist calendar perpetually open to the month in which Margaret Sanger was born and, yes, army boots!
[Already in 2004, I predicted that this individual, whatever his real name is, would be promoting the homosexual agenda.]
Anti-Bullying Speaker Curses Christian Teens
By Todd Starnes
April 27, 2012
Radio Fox News
As many as 100 high school students walked out of a national journalism conference after an anti-bullying speaker began cursing, attacked the Bible and reportedly called those who refused to listen to his rant “pansy assed.”
The speaker was Dan Savage, founder of the “It Gets Better” project, an anti-bullying campaign that has reached more than 40 million viewers with contributors ranging from President Obama to Hollywood stars. Savage also writes a sex advice column called “Savage Love.”
Savage, and his husband, were also guests at the White House for President Obama’s 2011 LGBT Pride Month reception. He was also invited to a White House anti-bullying conference.
Savage was supposed to be delivering a speech about anti-bullying at the National High School Journalism Conference sponsored by the Journalism Education Association and the National Scholastic Press Association. But it turned into an episode of Christian-bashing.
Rick Tuttle, the journalism advisor for Sutter Union High School in California, was among several thousand people in the audience. He said they thought the speech was one thing – but it turned into something else.
“I thought this would be about anti-bullying,” Tuttle told Fox news. “It turned into a pointed attack on Christian beliefs.”
Tuttle said a number of his students were offended by Savage’s remarks – and some decided to leave the auditorium.
“It became hostile,” he said. “It felt hostile as we were sitting in the audience – especially towards Christians who espouse beliefs that he was literally taking on.”
Tuttle said the speech was laced with vulgarities and “sexual innuendo not appropriate for this age group.” At one point, he said Savage told the teenagers about how good his partner looked in a speedo.
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.
“You can tell the Bible guys in the hall they can come back now because I’m done beating up the Bible,” Savage said as other students hollered and cheered. “It’s funny as someone who is on the receiving end of beatings that are justified by the Bible how pansy-assed people react when you push back.”
The executive director of the National Scholastic Press Association provided Fox News with [sic] joint statement from the Journalism Education Association that was sent to members – after a number of people complained about Savage’s remarks.
“We appreciate the level of thoughtfulness and deliberation regarding Dan Savage’s keynote address,” the NSPA wrote. “some audience members who felt hurt by his words and tone decided to leave in the middle of his speech, and to this, we want to make our point very clear: While as a journalist it’s important to be able to listen to speech that offends you, these students and advisers had simply reached their tolerance level for what they were willing to hear.”
The NSPA said they did not have a prior transcript of Savage’s speech and that wish “he had stayed more on target for the audience of teen journalists.” They also said it provided a “teachable moment” for students.
As for Savage’s attack on people of faith?
“While some of his earlier comments were so strongly worded that they shook some of our audience members, it is never the intent of JEA or NSPA to let students get hurt during their time at our conventions,” they wrote.
However, not once did the NSPA or the JEA offer any apologies to the students or faculty advisors or anyone else in attendance.
Savage did offer a sarcastic apology “if I hurt anyone’s feelings.”
“But I have a right to defend myself and to point out the hypocrisy of people who justify anti-gay bigotry by pointing to the Bible and insisting we must live by the code of Leviticus on this one issue and no other.”
Tuttle said that he “felt duped” by the event. “There were Christian schools who went to the conference. To have this happen was disappointing and shocking.”
The NSPA said they should have done a better job preparing schools for what to expect.
For his part, Tuttle said that he will definitely be more cautious about the speakers at future conventions.Tuttle related how Savage told students that for a number of years he was not allowed in schools. He told the students that because it’s [What is “it”?] gained national acceptance “he’s reveling in the fact that it’s basically a middle finger to all those teachers and administrators who wouldn’t let him have access to those students before.”
But for some of Tuttle’s students – they felt like the anti-bullying activist was in fact – the bully.
Dan Savage accused of bullying after journalism conference
The columnist called out a group of students who walked out of a talk he gave last month
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In a twist of irony, anti-bullying and gay-rights advocate Dan Savage is accused of "bullying" a group of students who walked out of a talk he was giving at a Seattle high school journalism conference. [There’s nothing ironic about this.]
The controversy began last month when the columnist called a group of two dozen high school students "pansy-a--ed" after they left his talk because he spoke negatively about the Bible's references to gay people.
"We can learn to ignore the bulls— in the Bible about gay people… the same way we have learned to ignore the bulls— in the Bible about shellfish, about slavery, about dinner, about farming, about menstruation, about virginity, about masturbation," he said. "We ignore bulls— in the Bible about all sorts of things."
Then, while a dozen students were walking out, he quipped, "It's funny, as someone who's been on the receiving end of beatings that are justified by the Bible, how pansy-a--ed some people react when you push back."
After a clip of the video went viral this weekend, National Scholastic Press Organization, which organized the conference, called the comments "inappropriate" and denounced Savage for having "belittled the faith of others."
Rick Tuttle, one of the teachers in attendance who brought his students from Sutter Union High School in Southern California, told Fox News he was incredibly upset over Savage's remarks.
"This speech I thought was going to be about anti-bullying, and what we got was a vulgar, profanity-laced attack on Christians," he said.
On a blog post earlier this week, Savage defended his comments, saying "I didn't call anyone's religion bulls—. I did say that there is bulls— — ‘Untrue words or ideas’ — in the Bible."
"I would like to apologize for describing that walkout as a pansy-a--ed move," he said. "I wasn't calling the handful of students who left pansies (2,800 + students, most of them Christian, stayed and listened), just the walkout itself."
Savage pointed to the standing ovation and hundreds of signed books as what he said was evidence the number of people offended was few.
"It wasn't like I sneaked up on a Bible study class and commandeered the podium,” he told the Seattle Times. “I'm like the Devil. You have to invite me in.”
http://www.aolnews.com/2010/10/17/study-gay-parents-more-likely-to-have-gay-kids/
ReplyDeletehttp://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/sax-sex/201004/why-are-so-many-girls-lesbian-or-bisexual
I agree with you about Dan Savage and his extremist attitudes however I don’t believe male homosexual militants have nearly as much impact on society as female radical lesbian activists. Why? I believe there are a number of reasons:
Men do not become homosexual due to environment or conditioning. I believe they can but it’s relatively uncommon. If men become gay it’s because there is some innate compulsion driving them.
Women however will become gay due to environment or conditioning. Females are different than males, it’s not PC to say that but it’s true, biologically and mentally men and women are different. I’m not going to try to explain it in any scientific way because I’m not qualified to do so but no one has ever been able to quantify scientifically what causes homosexuality. I’m going by what homosexuals themselves say. It is not unusual for homosexual women to cite male behavior as a reason for their homosexuality. This is common with radical feminists (being lesbian is political), lesbians appearing on talk shows, characters on television or movies. Gay men do not do this, they always express they are gay because they’ve always felt that way, they don’t blame female behavior on their homosexuality.
What’s mind boggling is that the gay party line is that homosexuality is genetic which is the crux of their political position, it’s hardwired in a way like being born a certain race so they have equivalent rights. OK, then why do so many female homosexuals turn around and say men doing them wrong made them gay? Isn’t that environmental?
I’ve seen little girls sitting with their mothers watching Jerry Springer lesbians dumping their cheating boyfriends/husbands for women and then simulate sex acts on stage – you think that might affect their behavior? Gay activists would say it has no affect whatsoever. I believe it is having a profound affect on behavior of young girls today. Ever hear of a singing group called TATU? Look them up, an underage lesbian singing group directed at an underage female audience, they were quite popular at one time and I was astounded at the lack of outrage at this assault on underage children. I wonder how parents would have felt about underage homosexual boys were singing and performing simulated sex onstage for underage boys? Somehow I think there would have been a much greater reaction. While TATU’s popularity has waned they have been replaced by mainstream “artists” like Maddonna; Katy Perry (I Kissed a Girl) or Lady GaGa who declare their “bisexuality” to the public with thinly veiled suggestions (Katy Perry not so thinly) that girls should “turn to women” if things don’t work out with men. There are many more and I could go on and on but don’t want to go on forever, However, I can’t think of any male singing act promoting the same message to underage boys. (As a side note look up a Katy Perry concert on Youtube, not only is lesbianism a prominent message her show is designed to appeal to young children, particularly children). cont...
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ReplyDeleteNow Mr. Stix I enjoy you’re writing but I think when it comes to homosexuality you do the same thing I see fundamentalist Christians do when they challenge the gay agenda. Focus on gay men and semi ignore lesbians. I never understood that. If religious organizations want to fight gay influence on their children why do they ignore the unbelievable amount of ammunition lesbians simply hand them. For decades homosexual women have made appearances on talk shows clearly stating environmental reasons (men!) turning them to lesbianism; radical feminists like Ti Grace Atkisson “Feminism is the theory, lesbianism is the practices” come right out and say it’s a political act (that’s environmental NOT genetic, they don’t seem to notice the difference); vast numbers of Youtube videos with women telling young girls that they should become lesbians because it’s “better” and “easier” (look up ‘why I became a lesbian”). All those lesbians contradicting being “born that way” and all they want to do is talk about gay men.
Are you afraid of lesbians? Afraid to challenge them but find gay men easier targets? If I were an activist fighting the gay agenda I would simply compile a massive amount of personal testaments from lesbians contradicting the gay party line that every gay person it born that way. It’s out there and almost impossible to avoid if you’re paying even a little bit of attention.
I’m including a link to a study that refers to how young girls are more likely to be influenced by gay parents into becoming homosexual themselves. This study was condemned by gay activists but they do that to any study that they don’t agree with. The other link discusses the dramatic increase in female homosexuality in recent years. 15% of girls today say they are gay or bi, an enormous increase from about 2% decades ago while male percentage of homosexuality has remained the same (about 5%). I find Dan Savage to be annoying but focusing on him is a distraction to the much more insidious attack on young underage girls today.
I would also like to point out that the culprits in the attack on young girls includes pedophile heterosexual and homosexual adult males and females alike, many of whom are profiting off the commodification of lesbianism and getting their own personal sexual gratification out of it also. These sick disgusting people are getting a free pass because they are attacking the sexuality of young girls hiding behind political correctness and feminism, there is a chic (Time magazine had a cover labeled “lesbian chic”) veneer covering up an ugly agenda that is having a very real affect on the psyches and behavior of young girls today but no one seems to want to address it.
Thanks for reading this and if you disagree in any way that’s fine, I just wanted to get this off my chest. Jerry
You guys are saying that if you allow homosexuality to be seen it will breed more homosexuality. This isn't a new idea, some people have even gone as far as to say that our species will go extinct if we start treating homosexuals equally. I'd say that is more insulting to heterosexuals. You are saying straight people are actually homosexuals who don't know it, and would be gay if societies standards were different. Give straight people some credit. Straight people will be straight no matter how many gay couples are shown on TV. If 95% of kisses on TV are heterosexual, and some kid claims to have been turned gay because of the other 5%..well, they were just gay to begin with.
ReplyDeleteClearly you did not read closely what I wrote. I did not say "people" in general I said "women" choose to be homosexual due to environment. "Men" do not.
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't matter if only 5% of kisses are homosexual, if those
"kisses" are presented and designed in a way to manipulate underage children (girls) at a point in their life when they are vulnerable then they are wrong.
If 95% of messages about gay people were positive and 5% stereotypical and derogatory you would go ballistic about that 5% so you're "point" is hypocritical.
Not all young girls are gay to begin with. They choose to be gay due to environmental imprinting at a young age as a social coping mechanism, not everyone slips into normal roles of socialization, for many it is a struggle and homosexuality offers a way out of dealing with adolescent fears and anxieties (and someone to blame: MEN!).
You know why it's true? Because they SAY SO! Lesbians constantly cite environmental reasons for becoming lesbian. If they are going to say it then why can't we take their word for it? Jerry
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2012/01/cynthia-nixon-gay-by-choice/
Let’s interpret what the author means by “bullying” or “hate.” It means to disagree with the so—called gay agenda. It is simple as that. The so called gay agenda is a fascist/communist type movement that as all tyrants and despots in history have done; they manipulate language. They change the meaning of a word to suit their agenda. Take the very use of “gay,” which formerly meant to be happy, now it defines a pervert who like to have someone of the same sex ram their penis up the same place they just defecated from. They change the meaning of that and label it love.
ReplyDeleteTo all you so-called gay activists, I have a question for you. Can someone disagree with your views and not be a homophobe, hatemonger, bigot, or bully?
If this post doesn’t get censored, I predict the response to it will be along the lines of the yawn-inducing ad-hominine attacks such as fundamentalist, bigot, homophobe, etc. along with some cursing and sexually-based insults going along.
Oh btw, I am presently making a documentary on proof on how homosexuals are the most bigoted, hateful, violent, intolerant bullies on the planet, and that it is virtually impossible for a homo to have a civil conversation with someone who disagrees with their lifestyle.