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      <title>Comments On: Savage&apos;s Great New Shitstorm
    
      by David Schmader</title>
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    <author><![CDATA[thebadsteed]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Dan Savage is a proven liar.  The fact that he is even considered to be a credible source of advice is fucking hilarious.  He leads a very dangerous lifestyle and arrogantly dispenses hate-filled rants toward people that don't believe as he does.  Anyone who listens to his garbage deserves what they get.  A fucked up life.  In fact, do yourself a favor.  Write in to Savage and if he decides you are worthy of a response, do the exact opposite of what he tells you to do.  For those of you with fucked up lives that look up to people like this cretin?  You deserve much better.  You know exactly what I'm talking about.
        
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    <pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 09:13:37 -0700</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[DamosA]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Yeah, EVERYTHING Dan said above! Bottom line is, christians just don't wanna hear it.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Never Alone]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Christians can't really say much here, or anywhere, because if they actually read the bible they already know their position is indefensible. They support a reprehensible entity bereft of morality or any true sense of spirituality. They aren't even slick enough to edit the myriad contradictions out of their own book, that's how little they give a shit. How many have died in the name of this crap?<br>
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Even a cursory study of Rome and the early rise of Christianity shows how political and arbitrary this religion is.  Christianity has been the bully of our recent history, I thought we were saying NO to bullies in 2012!
        
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          <a href="http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/Profile?oid=2590120">Lonely At The Movies</a>]]>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:16:51 -0700</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[ScrumYummy]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[What #6 said.<br>
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Also, students aren't being bullied for being christian, they are bullied for not being christian. In high school, I took part in a September 11th remembrance thing, which was closed with a (very christian) prayer, during which I quietly ducked out through the back. Some girls followed me after, called me a satan-worshipper and threw rocks at me. That's a christian for you.
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:49:48 -0700</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[rottentangerine]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[When I was in high school I would seize any chance I had to get out of a class, pep rally, or any other sort of event.  I suspect many of those kids saw an opportunity & were making a beeline to some cheese fries & red bull.  That's what the kids live on these days, right?
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:48:09 -0700</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[KateRhoades]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[He's been saying this stuff forever. Why would they ask him to come speak in front of teenagers if they didn't think his ideas were appropriate?
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:32:46 -0700</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Steve R.]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Go Dan. I think your Savage Love column is kinda dumb, but this shit rocks. Please keep it up and don't listen to the whiners.
        
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          <a href="http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/Profile?oid=877252">Steve R.</a>]]>
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    <author><![CDATA[Graham]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[UGH.... THAT WOULD'VE BEEN AN OKAY SPEECH FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS, BUT WAS A BULLSHIT SPEECH FOR HIGH SCHOOLERS. HOWEVER, DAN'S WHOLE SCHTICK IS TO ROCK THE BOAT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:50:47 -0700</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[geyser]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[The Bible contains things that are explicitly pro-slavery along with others that are only figuratively opposed to the institution of slavery.<br>
Jesus condemned a lot of things that in all likelihood weren't "up for debate" at the time. Why didn't he ever say a single word against slavery?<br>
Anyway, Dan has a much more positive view of the soundness of the Bible's teachings if he thinks anti-homosexuality is the "last hurdle" in them to be overcome.
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:37:56 -0700</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[holymoly]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Anyway, dude is not much of a biblical scholar.  The kids got offended at Dan's suggestion that the bible is "radically pro-slavery", which is a pretty naïvely ahistorical claim to make.  The bible's authors lived in a time when the morality of the institution of slavery wasn't up for debate.  Later on in history some Christians interpreted the bible as supportive of slavery and others interpreted its themes of justice, equality and liberation as supportive of abolitionism.  The abolitionist movement in the UK was centrally a religious movement.  I'd be annoyed at Dan too, not because he hurt my feelings but because his scholarship is lazy and essentialist.
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:33:42 -0700</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[I don't think there's any excuse for an adult working in anti-bullying advocacy to call teenagers "pansy-assed."
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:24:03 -0700</pubDate>
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