Kathryn
It was on fire when I laid down on it.
I guess it's a good thing he didn't give a speech denouncing Christians.
The fact of the matter is that he offered up the same criticism against Biblical literalists that have been offered up time and again. That a small number of people left compared to the majority who stayed, who statistically were predominantly Christian, just shows me that this whole controversy is manufactured. Calling out literalists for cherry-picking the Bible, especially over issues involving homosexuals, is nothing new. This particular guy happened to use the world ******** three times in specifically referring to those parts of the Bible. And that is to be construed as an attack on Christendom.
What's even worse is that this is a small bit from the entire speech. Where's the rest of the speech? What was it's content? Were the students who walked out all from that one school? If so, why?
But now people are linking one man's speech, for which he already apologized for, to make a connection between anti-bullying and anti-religious sentiment.
Manufactured controversy has achieved it's goal.
Don't blame this brouhaha on other people when it was clearly the intentionally inflammatory words of Savage that created this maelstrom.
The whole fiasco could have easily been avoided - all he had to do was keep his personal agenda in check a bit and not speak so inappropriately at a high school program.
Oh well, I'm pretty sure he's happy with the publicity. Perhaps THAT part was manufactured too - for publicity. Ever think of that? It was the first thought that came into my head.
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