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Savage Lovecast

Savage Love Episode 436

Savage Lovecast

Dan Savage

Relationships, Sexuality, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.66.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2015

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The Lovecast welcomes Anna Sale from WNYC's "Death, Sex & Money" podcast to pick over the nuances of Dan's thinking on non-monogamy.  We check in on a caller from last year who has recurring cancer, and a boyfriend who wasn't quite ready to marry her. Learn how she is doing, and whether they tied the knot.  Hear the tale of yet another deflowered, "abstinence-only" Christian. (It's kind of hot…)  So much. Always so much.  206-201-2720 This podcast is brought to you by Stamps.com. Click on the microphone and enter "Savage" for $55 free postage and a digital scale. This episode is also brought to you by Squarespace.com. They make it easy to build a website or blog. Give it a whirl, and if you want to buy it, use the code Savage for a 10% discount and free web domain registration. This episode is also brought to you by Audible. Download a free audiobook of your choice today at

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0:00.0

You're listening to the micro version of the Savage Lovecast, www.com.

0:06.8

If you're stuck in a relationship quandary, or if you're looking for sexual harmony,

0:16.2

while there's nothing you can't ask on the Savage Lovecast.

0:24.6

Unless you're a fundamentalist Christian and you were at CPAC, the conservative political action conference in Washington, D.C. this weekend.

0:30.5

Or you are a gay blogger and you follow these things.

0:34.1

You've probably never heard of the Benham brothers.

0:36.9

Jason and David Benham are

0:38.8

popular Christian martyrs. And they were martyred by the evil fascist homosexual rights movement.

0:46.1

They were about to get a TV show on HGTV, Home and Garden Television, which is all about

0:51.8

interior design and home decorating and home renovations and buying houses.

0:56.9

And every other host on HGTV, of course.

1:00.1

And designer is a gay person.

1:02.6

And half the people who come on the show to have their homes designed are gay people.

1:07.0

And a lot of the audience is gay people.

1:10.0

There's not a lot of straight guys sitting around the house in fuzzy slippers knocking back, Rose and watching HGTV. Anyway, right before Jason and David, we're about to get a TV show on HGTV, flipping houses. It came out that these two guys were pretty rabid anti-gay activists who had

1:31.6

testified in Charlotte, the city where they live against the city giving a permit to a gay pride parade,

1:38.3

describing the gay pride parade in their testimony, David, describing the pride parade as filth and

1:43.2

destructive and a vile activity that should not be allowed in our city.

1:47.1

And the brothers have also compared homosexuality to Islam, lumped them in together and said that both homosexuality, gay rights movement, and Islam are part of a demonic force and agenda bent on destroying America.

2:03.1

And all of this came tumbling out, and HGTV took a look at who their audience is and who their other hosts are and canceled the show.

2:12.1

So they didn't get their show, and they are now right-wing fundamentalist Christian martyrs.

2:16.4

On the right-wing fundamentalist Christian martyr speaking circuit,

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