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We're living through an age of irrationality and religious fervor I would call it religious idiocy. It's exhausting to year after year be on the receiving end of this demagoguery.
Dan Savage
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Dan Savage
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: October 7
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Daniel Keenan Savage
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