NOM President Brian Brown, a full week after Dan Savage invited him, Mrs. Brown, and their children, to dinner in the Savage’s home, has finally accepted — sans Mrs. Brown and the children.
Dan — I accept and will look forward to debating you at your dining room table. As I said in my challenge to you, anytime, any place.
While I appreciate the invitation that you have extended to my wife, she will not be able to attend. She is a full-time mom with seven beautiful children and an eighth on the way.
I have no objection to Mark Oppenheimer from the New York Times covering the discussion, nor to you hiring your own video crew to film the event, provided that I am able to hire my own video crew to be sure there is no creative editing of the discussion.
Not that a New York Times reporter would slant the news, mind you!Â
This will be fun!
To refresh your memory, Brown had taunted Savage after the creator of the It Gets Better project had delivered a speech which “offended” Christians. Savage had said, “We can learn to ignore the bullshit in the Bible about gay people,” and called the students who walked out “pansy-assed.” (That last part was uncalled for, but was it bullying? No.)
So Brown attacked:
Let me lay down a public challenge to Dan Savage right here and now: You want to savage the Bible? Christian morality? Traditional marriage? Pope Benedict? I’m here, you name the time and the place and let’s see what a big man you are in a debate with someone who can talk back. It’s easy to make high-school girls cry by picking on them. Let’s pick on someone our own size!
I’m here, any time, any place you name, Dan Savage. You will find out out how venal and ridiculous your views of these things are if you dare to accept a challenge.
But now, 0f course, it’s going to be “fun.”
Of course, we still don’t know the date and time.
Stay tuned.
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