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Wednesday, September 7, 2011
"But I Had Mom and Dad"
Dan Savage is not without his flaws, but he is an articulate spokesman and brilliant performer when speaking on heartfelt topics like the need to reach gay youth through the It Gets Better Project. Earlier this year, Dan spoke at the Kessler Theater in Dallas on parents, religion, bullying, and LGBT kids (some parts NSFW):
Very interesting clips. I have to say that I went to 12 years of Catholic school and never heard one bad word said against homosexuality or gay people. It was never mentioned. I also never heard any anti-gay rhetoric in Church. A lot of priests are gay so one doesn't usually hear anti-gay talk in most Catholic parishes.
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.
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Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?
It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.
If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.
2 comments:
Certain things he says put my teeth on edge, but he is a good man and has done a very good thing with this project.
Very interesting clips. I have to say that I went to 12 years of Catholic school and never heard one bad word said against homosexuality or gay people. It was never mentioned. I also never heard any anti-gay rhetoric in Church. A lot of priests are gay so one doesn't usually hear anti-gay talk in most Catholic parishes.
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