Eric Metaxas on Breakpoint:
It all began when the National High School Journalism Conference invited a gay rights activist named Dan Savage to speak to students in Seattle about the need to prevent bullying. But it turned out that this was a lesson Savage badly needed to learn himself.
To the shock of the students, Savage launched a vicious attack on the Bible and Christian beliefs. As he put it, “We can learn to ignore the BS in the Bible about gay people.” Of course he didn’t say BS. As Savage continued his attack, some students broke into tears. Dozens of offended students walked out of the auditorium. As they left, Savage heckled them with vulgar words I can’t repeat on the air.
One of the teachers present — Rick Tuttle of Sutter Union High School in California — said the speech “took a real dark, hostile turn … It became very hostile toward Christianity.”
Savage later apologized for using vulgarity to describe the students. But he refused to back down on his other comments —including his offensive comments about the Bible.
Now, what are we to make of this conundrum?
First, I think we can safely assume that the term “bullying” has gone the way of “tolerance.”
Read the rest here.
HT: Denny Burk
