Dan Savage Blasts Religious Right As Culpable In Rash Of Gay Teen Suicides

Radio host and author Dan Savage created the YouTube channel "It Gets Better" to help reach out to gay teens who are being bullied.

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[wntoply6]

don't ever think for a second the religious right, including the likes of pat robertson, james dobson, tony perkins or any god damned "holier than thou" preacher or priest have anything to do with family values, love, truth, or the teachings of some sort of savior!

they're the vessels in which ignorance & intolerance pass. their hate & bigotry divide otherwise loving families!

their hands are covered with the blood of those gay children who they sent to their suicidal death!

they are true EVIL!

[TimEastonPA]

God bless you for breaking the isolation of these vicitimized non-heterosexual young Americans who have lost hope due to the big campaigns to destroy them by their families, churches, professional politicians, etc.

[TheAlexKiernan]

Dan savage is the best

[garycalgary]

i hate his snide advice in his advice column but Dan Savage is spot on in this interview.

[stainshield]

@wntoply6 most of these assholes are two faced, for example they claim to be Pro-Life yet they support war and against health care that could help women that are pregent from dying with the baby. The scary thing about them is they would rather have a woman or 12 year old child who was raped by a freak out on the street to have the baby, because they claim that the baby is innocent and that God planed for them to get raped so they can have a baby and these people scary the hell out of me.

[wntoply6]

@stainshield thanks, i looked him up immediately after you told me about him.

what i'll never understand is how these bastards use the bible as their license to hate. worse, they get away with it. with that hate running thru their veins you'd think the vast majority of humans would run from these liars, bigots & fear mongers...but they don't.

just goes to show how fragile the human mind is when the average joe will believe anything a sly orator tells em as he steals the underwear right off em!

[stainshield]

@wntoply6 Jack Chick is an Independent Fundamental Baptist who writes comic books called Chick Tracts by Chick Publications, His tracts label Catholisim, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and any other religion as being Satanic and abominations to God. His company is labeled as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. He doesn't do that many interviews, because he believes that the Roman Catholic Church will kill him like Alberto Rivera.

[wntoply6]

@stainshield falwell learned midway thru his career targeting pro choice people & the gay community would increase his wealth beyond his wildest dreams.

once the money rolled in by demonizing good people, he was off & running, claiming a moral high ground & hijacking the once honorable republican party (now it's an embarrassment to liberty)!

i'm not familiar with Chick, but i am aware falwell successfully perpetuated the history & legacy of southern ignorance, intolerance, bigotry & hate!

[stainshield]

@wntoply6 Don't forget that intolerant asshole Jack T. Chick of Chick Publications and the late fat ass Jerry Falwell who left a legacy of hate and intolerance before he died in 2007.

[naybobdenod]

I`m 58 years old and my beautiful daughter is just 7.In some ten years time when she will have found her sexuality and she comes to me and says ` dad,i`m a lesbian` my only question will be ` are you happy `and if the answer is the one I want to hear then I`ll give her a hug and say `good for you sweetheart,as long as you are happy then so am I `

Only brainwashed idiots would think otherwise !

[silverkeen07]

@YayShadow whoa whoa whoa, i am gay and an athiest but the signs you speak of are totally something different to choose to believe. we need to pay attention to the signs to help one another and not just preach what a book says.