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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDan Savage: Every time a gay youth commits suicide, our enemies celebrate
DANIEL VILLARREAL | Contributing Writer
DENTON Every time LGBT bullying kills a kid, Tony Perkins gets up from his desk and dances a jig, sex-advice-columnist-turned-LGBT youth advocate Dan Savage said of the anti-gay Family Research Council president during Savages keynote speech at the 12th Annual University of North Texas Equity and Diversity Conference on Tuesday.
Every LGBT youth suicide for them is a victory, a rhetorical and moral victory, Savage added.
When some LGBT teenagers come out to their parents, Savage said, the parents do what the Christian right tells them to do cut them off financially and emotionally, disown them, turn them out into the streets or send them to camps meant to turn them straight, often repeating the lies spread by so-called Christian groups like the Family Research Council which say that LGBT people are child-molesting sexual predators whose mere existence threatens families and the very survival of the planet (a line uttered by the Pope just this last month).
Savage and his husband, Terry Miller, hoped to counteract the lethal effect of such anti-LGBT attitudes when they started the It Gets Better (IGB) video campaign in September 2010. They thought that user-created videos encouraging LGBT youth to keep living might stem the epidemic of bullying-related LGBT suicides that killed 10 teenage boys that month alone. ...............(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.dallasvoice.com/savage-10100697.html
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Dan Savage: Every time a gay youth commits suicide, our enemies celebrate (Original Post)
marmar
Feb 2012
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RKP5637
(67,112 posts)1. As usual, religion is at the forefront in making the world a better place ...
NOT!
xchrom
(108,903 posts)2. thank you, mr savage and thanks marmar for posting. nt
joshcryer
(62,287 posts)3. Yep.
BlueIris
(29,135 posts)4. How anyone can celebrate anyone's suicide is beyond me.
Especially if it is the suicide of a young person.
Dragonbreathp9d
(2,542 posts)5. Dan was in Denton and I missed him?!?!
Sooooo pissed
Matariki
(18,775 posts)6. Wow, there are some ugly comments at that link
sad.