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(via Liberty Counsel: “Dan Savage is Encouraging Violence Against Christians Like the Nazis Did to the Jews” | Right Wing Watch)

Earlier this month, Dan Savage set off a bit of controversy when he declared that “every dead gay kid is a victory for the Family Research Council,” prompting FRC president Tony Perkins to hint that legal action might be taken against him.

Today, Matt Barber and Shawn Akers discussed Savage’s comments on the “Faith and Freedom” radio program during which Barber suggested that Savage was intentionally “sending a signal to the next Floyd Corkins to go in and try again” while Akers asserted that he “didn’t want to go off into hyperbole” right before he declared that Savage’s remarks were just like “Hitler’s programmatic desensitization of the German people toward the Jewish population.”

(via Igor Volsky at Think Progress: Conservative Groups Accuse Dan Savage Of ‘Bullying’ After He Highlights Hypocrisy In The Bible)

Dan Savage is totally right on.

Christian conservative groups are condemning Dan Savage — the founder of the anti-bullying It Gets Better project — for “bullying” religious students who walked out of a recent lecture in which 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: 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.”