We Can Learn To Ignore The Bulls**t In The Bible

Dan Savage, founder of the "It Gets Better" project, an anti-bullying campaign, was supposed to be delivering a speech about anti-bullying at the National High School Journalism Conference sponsored by the Journalism Education Association and the National Scholastic Press Association, but it turned into an anti-Christian speech. 

"We can learn to ignore the bulls**t in the bible about gay people, the same way we have learned to ignore the bulls**t in the bible about shellfish, about slavery, about dinner, about farming...about virginity...we ignore bulls**t in the bible about all sorts of things," says Savage. 

Savage's attack on the Christian faith caused many teenagers to walk out during his speech. As they walked out Savage insulted them by calling them "pansy-assed". 

Savage accuses the bible as being a "radically pro-slavery document". He goes on to say, "We ignore what the bible says about slavery because the bible got slavery wrong." He uses this as evidence that the bible got homosexuality wrong. However, Savages accusation about the bible being "pro-slavery" is wrong. What we in Modern America think of as slavery is a system in which people are bought or sold as property. In the bible it is called chattel slavery and the bible does not condone it. Only the pagans had chattel slaves, as found in Leviticus 25.

To watch Savage's Speech, click here.

To read more on the conference, click here.