{"id":7111,"date":"2015-07-16T06:45:33","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T06:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2012\/10\/01\/dan-savage-accuses-family-research-council-president-of-sitting-on-pile-of-dead-gay-kids\/"},"modified":"2015-07-16T06:45:33","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T06:45:33","slug":"dan-savage-accuses-frc-president-of-sitting-on-pile-of-dead-gay-kids-atwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/7111","title":{"rendered":"Dan Savage accuses FRC president of sitting on ‘pile of dead gay kids’ at work"},"content":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/campusreform\/status\/252883321082753025\n

Sex columnist, “It Gets Better” founder and White House guest Dan Savage<\/a> was speaking metaphorically, of course, when he told a group of students at Winona State University in Minnesota last week that Family Research Council President Tony Perkins “sits on a pile of dead gay kids every day when he goes to work.”<\/p>\n

It’s an even more tasteless comment than usual from “anti-bullying” crusader Savage, who called a group of teens “pansy asses”<\/a> as they walked out of a Christian-bashing speech and said he’s less interested in seeing Mitt Romney’s heart than his “liver and spleen.<\/a>” After all, Perkins and others at the Family Research Council’s headquarters were fired upon in August by a volunteer at an LGBT organization<\/a>. Helping to foment anger against the FRC were claims by the Southern Poverty Law Center that the FRC is an “official” hate group — a claim Savage repeats to his audience.<\/p>\n

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It’s bad enough that, after news of the shooting broke, Twitter lit up with comments that the FRC “totally had it coming.”<\/a> Savage hopes to keep the FRC in the crosshairs, though, outrageously claiming in his speech that “every dead gay kid’s a victory for the Family Research Council” and that they group will do “everything in their power to make sure that suicide rate does not come down.”<\/p>\n

The White House’s favorite “anti-bullying crusader” also got in a shot in at Republicans, saying that the country still has a race problem (“Obviously we do, it’s called the GOP”) and lamenting that “We will always have ignorant dicks like Michele Bachmann and her fag husband.”<\/p>\n

CampusReform.org called out Savage on his appearance, but not surprisingly, Savage isn’t backing down.<\/p>\n\n\n

I'm Dan Savage and I approved — and stand by — this message: http:\/\/t.co\/ZTMWCyzo<\/a><\/p>\n

— Dan Savage (@fakedansavage) October 1, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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@fakedansavage<\/a> wait are we supposed to condemn you for speaking the truth about the FRC?<\/p>\n

— robert_ (@rowast) October 1, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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One fan called the appearance “funny.”<\/p>\n\n\n

Dan Savage was brilliant, funny, irreverent, & absolutely inspiring during the talk he gave on "It gets better" at Winona State last night!<\/p>\n

— Andrea Wood (@a_d_wood) September 28, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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Funnier still was the rainbows and sunshine headline in the Winona Daily News<\/a> hailing the event: “Writer, activist Dan Savage creates hope for LGBT youth.”<\/p>

Read more: http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2012\/10\/01\/dan-savage-accuses-family-research-council-president-of-sitting-on-pile-of-dead-gay-kids\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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