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The ''It Gets Better Project'' for which Savage received 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, 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=https://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 received 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, 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=https://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>  

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 far 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 far short of.<ref name="OnSavageInTime"/>

==Personal life==

==Personal life==

Savage was raised as one of four children of a cop and a homemaker in ethnic-Irish [[Chicago]]. He spent some time in Catholic school, and his writing bears scant traces of the church’s stark moral clarity, most notable in his impatience with postmodern or queer theorizing or anything that might overturn the centrality of the stable nuclear family. He is not a churchgoer, but liberal media describe him as "a cultural Catholic".<ref name="NYT2011">{{cite web |title=Married, With Infidelities |author=Mark Oppenheimer |publisher=NYT |date=30 Jun 2011 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/magazine/infidelity-will-keep-us-together.html |quote=In May, the It Gets Better campaign was featured in an advertisement for Google’s Chrome Web browser.}}</ref>  

Savage was raised as one of four children of a cop and a homemaker in ethnic-Irish [[Chicago]]. He spent some time in Catholic school, and his writing bears scant traces of the church's stark moral clarity, most notable in his impatience with postmodern or queer theorizing or anything that might overturn the centrality of the stable nuclear family. He is not a churchgoer, but liberal media describe him as "a cultural Catholic".<ref name="NYT2011">{{cite web |title=Married, With Infidelities |author=Mark Oppenheimer |publisher=NYT |date=30 Jun 2011 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/magazine/infidelity-will-keep-us-together.html |quote=In May, the It Gets Better campaign was featured in an advertisement for Google’s Chrome Web browser.}}</ref>  

In 2005, an [[open homosexual]], Savage was [[Same-sex marriage|"married"]] in Vancouver, Canada to his long time partner Terry Miller, and they have an adopted son DJ.<ref>https://www.npr.org/2011/03/23/134628750/dan-savage-for-gay-teens-life-gets-better</ref> Around 2012 he launched a sex advice show on [[MTV]] targeted toward college students.<ref>{{cite web |title=Gay AntiBully Activist Calls Students 'Pansies' for Walking Out After AntiBible Remarks |author=Nicola Menzie |publisher=The Christian Post |date=23 Apr 2012 |url=http://www.christianpost.com/news/gay-anti-bully-activist-calls-students-pansies-for-walking-out-after-anti-bible-remarks-73735/

In 2005, an [[open homosexual]], Savage was [[Same-sex marriage|"married"]] in Vancouver, Canada to his long time partner Terry Miller, and they have an adopted son DJ.<ref>https://www.npr.org/2011/03/23/134628750/dan-savage-for-gay-teens-life-gets-better</ref> Around 2012 he launched a sex advice show on [[MTV]] targeted toward college students.<ref>{{cite web |title=Gay AntiBully Activist Calls Students 'Pansies' for Walking Out After AntiBible Remarks |author=Nicola Menzie |publisher=The Christian Post |date=23 Apr 2012 |url=http://www.christianpost.com/news/gay-anti-bully-activist-calls-students-pansies-for-walking-out-after-anti-bible-remarks-73735/

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