Dan Savage Accused of ‘Bullying’ Christian Students After He Highlights Biblical Hypocrisy

Dan Savage — the founder of the anti-bullying It Gets Better project — is being condemned by Christian conservative groups.  Ironically for “bullying” religious students who walked out of a recent lecture in front a recent National High School Journalism Conference.  In his lecture the popular sex columnist pointed out “the hypocrisy of people who justify anti-gay bigotry by pointing to the Bible and insisting that we must live by the code of Leviticus on this one issue and no other.”

Savage discussed the hypocrisy contained within the bible:

SAVAGE: We can learn to ignore the bullshit about gay people in the Bible the same way have learned to ignore the bullshit in the Bible about shellfish about slavery, about dinner about farming, about menstruation, about virginity, about masturbation. We ignore bullshit in the bible about all sorts of things. The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waived Bibles over their heads during the civil war and justified it…We ignore what the Bible says about slavery because the Bible got slavery wrong. …If the Bible got the easiest moral question that humanity has ever faced wrong, slavery. What are the odds that the Bible got something as complicated as human sexuality wrong? 100 percent.

“You can tell the Bible guys in the hall, they can come back now because I’m done beating up the Bible,” Savage said before moving on to his next topic, “It’s funny as someone who is on the receiving end of beatings that are justified by the Bible, how pansy-ass some people react when you push back.”

Savage has since apologized for the use of  “pansy-ass.” “I wasn’t calling the handful of students who left pansies, just the walk-out itself,” he said. “But that’s a distinction without a difference—kinda like when religious conservatives tell their gay friends that they ‘love the sinner, hate the sin.’… Likewise, my use of ‘pansy-assed’ was insulting, it was name-calling, and it was wrong. And I apologize for saying it.”

I have a hard time believing the cries of bullying.  You can’t bully a group for years and then cry out when they push back a little.  What do you think?  Sound off in the comments below.

via ThinkProgress