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| | | style="padding:15px;" |''“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{{#tag:ref|Note: [[Slavery]] in the British Empire was abolished in result of Christian movement lead by Anti-slavery activist [[William Wilberforce]]. Slavery is far from being a Western Christian invention, it was ubiquitous, and it was only the Christian west that abolished it.<ref>{{cite web |title=Anti-slavery activist William Wilberforce: Christian hero |author=Jonathan Sarfati |publisher=CMI |date=20 Feb 2007 |url=http://creation.com/anti-slavery-activist-william-wilberforce-christian-hero |accessdate=18 Jun 2016}}</ref> For [[theological]] analysis of Christian attitude to slavery, cf. John Stott: ''The Message of Ephesians''; For example: ''"In whatever way we Christians seek to defend ourselves and our faith against such criticism, it must never be by condoning slavery. For if the New Testament does not explicitly condemn slavery, it does not condone it either."''<ref>{{cite book |title=The Message of Ephesians |author=John Stott |publisher=InterVarsity Press |pages=xvi |isbn=978-08308-97872 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=c8iuAwAAQBAJ |quote=The Abolition of Slavery}}</ref> |group=note}}, about dinner, about farming, about menstruation, about virginity, about masturbation. We ignore bulls— in the Bible about all sorts of things.”'' | | | style="padding:15px;" |''“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{{#tag:ref|Note: [[Slavery]] in the British Empire was abolished in result of Christian movement lead by Anti-slavery activist [[William Wilberforce]]. Slavery is far from being a Western Christian invention, it was ubiquitous, and it was only the Christian west that abolished it.<ref>{{cite web |title=Anti-slavery activist William Wilberforce: Christian hero |author=Jonathan Sarfati |publisher=CMI |date=20 Feb 2007 |url=http://creation.com/anti-slavery-activist-william-wilberforce-christian-hero |accessdate=18 Jun 2016}}</ref> For [[theological]] analysis of Christian attitude to slavery, cf. John Stott: ''The Message of Ephesians''; For example: ''"In whatever way we Christians seek to defend ourselves and our faith against such criticism, it must never be by condoning slavery. For if the New Testament does not explicitly condemn slavery, it does not condone it either."''<ref>{{cite book |title=The Message of Ephesians |author=John Stott |publisher=InterVarsity Press |pages=xvi |isbn=978-08308-97872 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=c8iuAwAAQBAJ |quote=The Abolition of Slavery}}</ref> |group=note}}, about dinner, about farming, about menstruation, about virginity, about masturbation. We ignore bulls— in the Bible about all sorts of things.”'' |
| − | <div style="padding-left:40px;">— Dan Savage<ref name="OnSavageInTime">{{cite web |title=Dan Savage Apologizes for Bullying During Anti-Bullying Speech |date=01 May 2012 |url=http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/05/01/dan-savage-apologizes-for-bullying-during-anti-bullying-speech/ |publisher=Time Inc |accessdate=18 Jun 2016}}</ref> in his [[Goebbels]]-style rant{{#tag:ref|cf. ''"When Hitler was fighting for power, ... the fight against the Bible triggered its ramp. Especially the Old Testament was taken under the heavy fire. Everywhere you could hear and read: Well, the New Testament can be allowed to circulate for some time, because the teaching there in is about the God of love. Just one thing, the letters of Jew Paul must be eliminated from there, they smack too much of the Spirit of the Old Testament. As for the Old Testament itself - oh, that’s a terrible book, a dirty book, a horrifying book!"'' in [[Gnosticism#Gnostic_traits_in_Nazism|Gnostic traits in Nazism]]|group=note}}</div> | + | <div style="padding-left:40px;">— Dan Savage<ref name="OnSavageInTime">{{cite web |title=Dan Savage Apologizes for Bullying During Anti-Bullying Speech |date=1 May 2012 |url=http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/05/01/dan-savage-apologizes-for-bullying-during-anti-bullying-speech/ |publisher=Time Inc |accessdate=18 Jun 2016}}</ref> in his [[Goebbels]]-style rant{{#tag:ref|cf. ''"When Hitler was fighting for power, ... the fight against the Bible triggered its ramp. Especially the Old Testament was taken under the heavy fire. Everywhere you could hear and read: Well, the New Testament can be allowed to circulate for some time, because the teaching there in is about the God of love. Just one thing, the letters of Jew Paul must be eliminated from there, they smack too much of the Spirit of the Old Testament. As for the Old Testament itself - oh, that’s a terrible book, a dirty book, a horrifying book!"'' in [[Gnosticism#Gnostic traits in Nazism|Gnostic traits in Nazism]]|group=note}}</div> |
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| | '''Dan Savage''' is a syndicated sex-advice columnist<ref>{{cite web |title=Watch: Dan Savage Leaves Stephen Speechless on ‘Colbert Report’ |author=Olivia B. Waxman |publisher=Time Inc. |date=13 Jul 2011 |url=http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/07/13/watch-dan-savage-leaves-stephen-speechless-on-colbert-report/ |accessdate=18 Jun 2016}}</ref> for the ''Seattle Stranger'' and founder of the ''It Gets Better'' Project who has engaged in various campaigns to promote [[homosexuality]] alias sodomy and to smear [[conservative]]s and [[Christian]]s. His [[Hedonism|hedonist]] [[propaganda]] disguised as an “anti-bullying activism” has been supported by dozens of influential politicians ([[Barack Obama]], [[Hillary Clinton]]), celebrities ([[Justin Bieber]], [[Tom Hanks]]) and corporations ([[Google]], [[Apple Inc.|Apple]]).<ref name="Carter2012">{{cite web |title=Anti-Bullying Speaker Attacks Bible, Christian Teens |author=Joe Carter |publisher=The Gospel Coalition, Inc. |date=29 Apr 2012 |url=https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/anti-bullying-speaker-attacks-bible-christian-teens |quote=What is most depressing is not Savage's message—that is standard hedonist propaganda—but rather the respect he is given despite being an amoral cretin. Savage is no longer just a guy who writes for the weekly tabloids. Now he's taken seriously by political leaders, business executives, actors, and pastors. His influence extends from Hollywood to the White House. ... The effort has been supported by dozens of influential politicians (Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton), celebrities (Justin Bieber, Tom Hanks) and corporations (Google, Apple).|accessdate=18 Jun 2016}}</ref> Similarily to [[nazi]] propaganda minister [[Goebbels]] during the era of the [[Third Reich]], who was famous of his crude and vulgar [[hate speech]]es against his political opponents,<ref>{{cite book |title=Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Uprostred Zla (Dietrich Bonhoeffer: In The Mids Of Wickedness) |author=Janet and Geoff Benge |publisher=ViViT |year= |pages=80 |isbn=978-80-89264-99-5 |url=http://www.vivit.sk/obchod?page=shop.product_details&flypage=garden_flypage.tpl&category_id=28&product_id=141 |quote=Na zjazde v Berlíne toho dňa Joseph Goebbels, nacistický minister propagandy, preklínal židov a všetko, čo urobili, aby zničili Nemecko. Hovoril o "židovskej krutej propagande" a o tom, ako židia kontrolovali všetky zahraničné noviny a vydávali klamstvá, ktoré poškodili obraz o milovanom Führerovi Adolfovi Hitlerovi. "Toto musí prestať," povedal. Nastal čas, aby Nemecko povstalo proti židom a ukázalo im, že musia prestať propagovať takéto klamstvá. ...Dietrichovi bolo zle z Goebbelsovho nenávistného prívalu nadávok.|language=Slovak}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Dietrich Bonhoeffer: In the Midst of Wickedness |author=Janet Benge, Geoff Benge |publisher=YWAM Pub. |year=2012 |isbn=978-15765-87133 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lhirtgAACAAJ}}</ref> Savage employs ''“a vulgar, profanity-laced attack on Christians.”''<ref name="OnSavageInTime"/> Savage's own life became a symbol of what happens when vice is embraced and virtue is abandoned. Rather than maturing into a happy, healthy, well-adjusted adult, he's devolved into a man so filled with hate that he'll bully teenagers and lick doorknobs to spite his ideological enemies.<ref name="Carter2012"/> | | '''Dan Savage''' is a syndicated sex-advice columnist<ref>{{cite web |title=Watch: Dan Savage Leaves Stephen Speechless on ‘Colbert Report’ |author=Olivia B. Waxman |publisher=Time Inc. |date=13 Jul 2011 |url=http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/07/13/watch-dan-savage-leaves-stephen-speechless-on-colbert-report/ |accessdate=18 Jun 2016}}</ref> for the ''Seattle Stranger'' and founder of the ''It Gets Better'' Project who has engaged in various campaigns to promote [[homosexuality]] alias sodomy and to smear [[conservative]]s and [[Christian]]s. His [[Hedonism|hedonist]] [[propaganda]] disguised as an “anti-bullying activism” has been supported by dozens of influential politicians ([[Barack Obama]], [[Hillary Clinton]]), celebrities ([[Justin Bieber]], [[Tom Hanks]]) and corporations ([[Google]], [[Apple Inc.|Apple]]).<ref name="Carter2012">{{cite web |title=Anti-Bullying Speaker Attacks Bible, Christian Teens |author=Joe Carter |publisher=The Gospel Coalition, Inc. |date=29 Apr 2012 |url=https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/anti-bullying-speaker-attacks-bible-christian-teens |quote=What is most depressing is not Savage's message—that is standard hedonist propaganda—but rather the respect he is given despite being an amoral cretin. Savage is no longer just a guy who writes for the weekly tabloids. Now he's taken seriously by political leaders, business executives, actors, and pastors. His influence extends from Hollywood to the White House. ... The effort has been supported by dozens of influential politicians (Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton), celebrities (Justin Bieber, Tom Hanks) and corporations (Google, Apple).|accessdate=18 Jun 2016}}</ref> Similarily to [[nazi]] propaganda minister [[Goebbels]] during the era of the [[Third Reich]], who was famous of his crude and vulgar [[hate speech]]es against his political opponents,<ref>{{cite book |title=Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Uprostred Zla (Dietrich Bonhoeffer: In The Mids Of Wickedness) |author=Janet and Geoff Benge |publisher=ViViT |year= |pages=80 |isbn=978-80-89264-99-5 |url=http://www.vivit.sk/obchod?page=shop.product_details&flypage=garden_flypage.tpl&category_id=28&product_id=141 |quote=Na zjazde v Berlíne toho dňa Joseph Goebbels, nacistický minister propagandy, preklínal židov a všetko, čo urobili, aby zničili Nemecko. Hovoril o "židovskej krutej propagande" a o tom, ako židia kontrolovali všetky zahraničné noviny a vydávali klamstvá, ktoré poškodili obraz o milovanom Führerovi Adolfovi Hitlerovi. "Toto musí prestať," povedal. Nastal čas, aby Nemecko povstalo proti židom a ukázalo im, že musia prestať propagovať takéto klamstvá. ...Dietrichovi bolo zle z Goebbelsovho nenávistného prívalu nadávok.|language=Slovak}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Dietrich Bonhoeffer: In the Midst of Wickedness |author=Janet Benge, Geoff Benge |publisher=YWAM Pub. |year=2012 |isbn=978-15765-87133 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lhirtgAACAAJ}}</ref> Savage employs ''“a vulgar, profanity-laced attack on Christians.”''<ref name="OnSavageInTime"/> Savage's own life became a symbol of what happens when vice is embraced and virtue is abandoned. Rather than maturing into a happy, healthy, well-adjusted adult, he's devolved into a man so filled with hate that he'll bully teenagers and lick doorknobs to spite his ideological enemies.<ref name="Carter2012"/> |
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| | After a spike in news reports on [[Homosexuality and mental illness|gay youth suicides]], Dan Savage started the [[It Gets Better project]]. The point of the project is to make videos assuring gay youths that their lives will improve after high school and college, and that bullying experienced for being gay will subside or be overcome by positive experiences. | | After a spike in news reports on [[Homosexuality and mental illness|gay youth suicides]], Dan Savage started the [[It Gets Better project]]. The point of the project is to make videos assuring gay youths that their lives will improve after high school and college, and that bullying experienced for being gay will subside or be overcome by positive experiences. |
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| − | In January of 2012, [[Vox Day]] reported that two gay teens who had made videos for the It Gets Better Project died by suicide (see also: [[Mental Health and Homosexuality]]).<ref name="VoxDay">{{cite web |title=It really doesn't get better |publisher=Vox Day |date=19 Jan 2012 |url=http://voxday.blogspot.com/2012/01/it-really-doesnt-get-better.html |accessdate=18 Jun 2016}}</ref> Vox Day also indicated that it doesn't get better and that homosexual propagandists promote an immoral and deviant lifestyle (see: [[Homosexuality and choice]] and [[Ex-homosexuals]]).<ref name="VoxDay"/> The inescapable fact is that for those who follow Savage's advice, it won't “get better.” | + | In January 2012, [[Vox Day]] reported that two gay teens who had made videos for the It Gets Better Project died by suicide (see also: [[Mental Health and Homosexuality]]).<ref name="VoxDay">{{cite web |title=It really doesn't get better |publisher=Vox Day |date=19 Jan 2012 |url=http://voxday.blogspot.com/2012/01/it-really-doesnt-get-better.html |accessdate=18 Jun 2016}}</ref> Vox Day also indicated that it doesn't get better and that homosexual propagandists promote an immoral and deviant lifestyle (see: [[Homosexuality and choice]] and [[Ex-homosexuals]]).<ref name="VoxDay"/> The inescapable fact is that for those who follow Savage's advice, it won't “get better.” |
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| − | The ''It Gets Better Project'' for which Savage receved a special recognition award during the 15th annual Webby Awards in New York on the June 13, 2011,<ref name="OnSavageInTime"/> is currently a national embarrassment. In 2012, [[homosexual activist]] Dan Savage was supposed to deliver an anti-bullying message to [[high school]] students. However, as many as 100 students walked out on his speech as he shouted vulgarities about the [[Bible]] and mocked [[Christian]]s.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dan Savage discusses bible at High School Journalism convention |date=27 Apr 2012 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao0k9qDsOvs |accessdate=18 Jun 2016}}</ref><ref name="mocks">[http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/anti-bullying-speaker-curses-mocks-christian-teens.html Anti-Bullying Speaker Curses Christian Teens] Starnes, Todd, FoxNews Radio, April 27, 2012</ref> It was reported that Savage engaged in verbal bullying as well. <ref name="mocks"/> In his effort to defend sexual perversions, Savage purported in his [[Anti-Christian]] slur that ''"We can learn to ignore the bullsh*t in the Bible and what it says about gay people,"'' and then claimed ''"The bible guys in the hall can come back now because I'm done beating up the bible."''<ref name="DailyMail2012">{{cite web |url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2136502/Dan-Savage-blasts-Christian-teens-walked-lecture-criticised-bullsh-t-Bible.html |title=Anti-bullying speaker Dan Savage blasts Christian teens who walked out of lecture after he criticised 'bullsh*t in the Bible' |publisher=dailymail.uk |date=29 Apr 2012 |accessdate=18 Jun 2016}}</ref> | + | The ''It Gets Better Project'' for which Savage receved a special recognition award during the 15th annual Webby Awards in New York on the June 13, 2011,<ref name="OnSavageInTime"/> is currently a national embarrassment. In 2012, [[homosexual activist]] Dan Savage was supposed to deliver an anti-bullying message to [[high school]] students. However, as many as 100 students walked out on his speech as he shouted vulgarities about the [[Bible]] and mocked [[Christian]]s.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dan Savage discusses bible at High School Journalism convention |date=27 Apr 2012 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao0k9qDsOvs |accessdate=18 Jun 2016}}</ref><ref name="mocks">[http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/anti-bullying-speaker-curses-mocks-christian-teens.html Anti-Bullying Speaker Curses Christian Teens] Starnes, Todd, FoxNews Radio, April 27, 2012</ref> It was reported that Savage engaged in verbal bullying as well.<ref name="mocks"/> In his effort to defend sexual perversions, Savage purported in his [[Anti-Christian]] slur that ''"We can learn to ignore the bullsh*t in the Bible and what it says about gay people,"'' and then claimed ''"The bible guys in the hall can come back now because I'm done beating up the bible."''<ref name="DailyMail2012">{{cite web |url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2136502/Dan-Savage-blasts-Christian-teens-walked-lecture-criticised-bullsh-t-Bible.html |title=Anti-bullying speaker Dan Savage blasts Christian teens who walked out of lecture after he criticised 'bullsh*t in the Bible' |publisher=dailymail.uk |date=29 Apr 2012 |accessdate=18 Jun 2016}}</ref> |
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| | Although the Student journalism should not according to the National Scholastic Press Association and Journalism Education Association ''"shy away from controversial topics and viewpoints"'', it should still promote and engage in civil discourse, a standard that Savage’s speech fell short of.<ref name="OnSavageInTime"/> | | Although the Student journalism should not according to the National Scholastic Press Association and Journalism Education Association ''"shy away from controversial topics and viewpoints"'', it should still promote and engage in civil discourse, a standard that Savage’s speech fell short of.<ref name="OnSavageInTime"/> |
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| | == LGBTI schizophrenia == | | == LGBTI schizophrenia == |
| − | Although Savage claims ''"I apologize if I hurt anyone's feelings...but I have a right to defend myself,"''<ref name="DailyMail2012"/> he does not give equal right to his opponents, regardless of his own feelings about it, to defend their position on criticising his antisocial tendencies and patterns of behaviors {{#tag:ref|cf.[[Gedankenexperiment#Marriage_vs._Homosexual_Life-style|Marriage vs. Homosexual Life-style]]|group=note}} that exhibit the traits of [[disturbed character]], including the tactic of playing the victim role and the tactic of vilifying the real victim. | + | Although Savage claims ''"I apologize if I hurt anyone's feelings...but I have a right to defend myself,"''<ref name="DailyMail2012"/> he does not give equal right to his opponents, regardless of his own feelings about it, to defend their position on criticising his antisocial tendencies and patterns of behaviors {{#tag:ref|cf.[[Gedankenexperiment#Marriage vs. Homosexual Life-style|Marriage vs. Homosexual Life-style]]|group=note}} that exhibit the traits of [[disturbed character]], including the tactic of playing the victim role and the tactic of vilifying the real victim. |
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| | *http://www.youtube.com/user/itgetsbetterproject | | *http://www.youtube.com/user/itgetsbetterproject |
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