I’ve loved listening to his Savage Love podcasts, and thought he pwned Tony Perkins in this AC360 debate about Prop 8 last night on CNN. Yes, he talked over Perkins a bit, but I love how he said, “You strip me of my rights and I interrupt you, who’s really suffering here?”
I think Dan’s an articulate, illustrative spokesperson for gay rights. I hope to hear more from him on this!
Did you see this week’s Savage Love column? Dan Savage turns pretty sarcastic toward straight boys worrying about how gay their sex lives might be.
I was a little surprised to see his Mormon spokesbigot opponent endorse defining what religious practice will be legal based on majority vote. Perhaps we can get a majority-vote proposition on the ballot concerning the religious practices of the Latter-Day Saints. Think they’ll like that?
THANK YOU for posting this. I’m going to play it while I read his latest column and listen to his podcast. You can never get too much Dan Savage.
Those answers were great.
He lost all my respect when he supported Larry Craig’s right to have sex in public bathrooms. Claim it’s not in public.
This is major issue the gay community is in denial about.
Moving thread from IMHO to MPSIMS.
But this isn’t an issue we’re campaigning for, nor is it actually any different for straight people so there is parity in the law.
It’s a rare person that can break Colbert, but Savage did it.
Is there a link to that clip that non-US people can watch?
try The Colbert Report - TV Series | Comedy Central US
It’s pretty funny.
:smack:
Sorry, I keep forgetting Hulu is American-only.
All your respect? Major issue? Sounds like a rather minor point of disagreement to me.
Also blocked in UK 
That would, I believe, make him the first gay I’ve heard who didn’t think Craig broke the law.
Forget about the denial part, how is this a “major” issue?
Do you have a link to what Dan said about Larry Craig? I’d like to read it.
I don’t see that as support.
From Procustus’ link:
That’s just part of the interview where Dan Savage makes it abundantly clear that he does not support trolling for or having sex in public bathrooms. Ftg, where did you hear otherwise?
Yes, that seems pretty clear to me too - Savage is categorically against the practice.
That was one of my my two favourite things Dan said. The other was at the end when he said, in reference to the ‘studies’ showing that children are healthiest when raised by a mother and a father, “Funded by bigots, for bigots, to justify bigotry, the studies you cite have all the validity of tobacco institute studies in the '70s that said smoking was safe.”
I don’t know if Dan has a whole bunch of clever responses that he thinks up ahead of time, or if everything is just off the cuff, but, man, he’s good, either way.
He’s absolutely one of my heroes. Thank you for sharing the link, xanthous.
Dan is awesome.
But I disagree with the praise over that sentence.
Actually, let me be more clear: we have to define what the purpose of the show is, first. If Dan’s goal is to have a fair debate with Joe Stickupmyass, then he fails. But Dan’s purpose is to be an effective advocate for his cause with the viewers, and by that measure, the line is a rousing success.