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Dan Savage
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: October 7
Author
Journalist
Podcaster
Sex Educator
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Chicago
Illinois
Daniel Keenan Savage
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I feel like I'm a compassionate guy, but I also feel if somebody's grip on life or sanity is so tenuous that a joke in an advice column that usually is nothing but jokes pushes them over the edge, then if not me, it would have been a leaf blowing past them that did it, or something else. You almost have to feel that way, doing this.
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Pride became this dogma which meant you couldn't criticize anything gay - if you were the least bit critical of gay culture or people or any gay person doing any gay thing, that was an insufficient display of pride. You were suffering from internalized homophobia. As opposed to external homophobia.
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Most Americans don't care about gay marriage. But it matters very much to the knuckle-draggers and Christianists and whack jobs in Bush's ever smaller base.
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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
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the Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it.
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Natural isn't something I get called a lot in Texas.
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The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads during the Civil War and justified it.
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