I think it is also telling that, like all pro-gay blogs, BTB has opened this up to discussion, while NOM’s own site for the video at http://www.brownvsavage.com/ conspicuously lacks a comments section.

I wish someone, someday would frame the argument to be about the place of gay people in our society, rather than about the “two great halves of humanity.”

When he and Savage were challenged to think of anything that would cause either to change their thinking, Savage came up with several possibilities that could appear in time, Brown simply contended that his beliefs would in time be confirmed.

The man has no ability to think but simply parrots religious dogma and is well paid to do so. And I know he’s well paid without seeing his paycheck. Washington DC is not a cheap place to live and doing so while supporting a stay at home wife and six(at last count) children is even more difficult to do.

Brian Brown is paid well to never acknowledge that we don’t tithe to or attend his cult or that he doesn’t have the “freedom of religion” to force us to adhere to the few tenets the “faithful” don’t ignore only because they will never apply to them personally.

As long as there are customers buying Snake Oil people like Brian Brown will sell it. Giving him a bigger platform for his favorite false narrative that anyone has a “religious right” to mentally, financially or physically abuse LGBT people is foolhardy and giving him another fundraising tool is just plain stupid.

I do feel that Savage could have pushed a couple more points a bit harder. For example, Savage pointed out where the FRC claimed that “homosexual activists” want to repeal all age of consent laws and turn pedophiles into “prophets,” which Brown then tried to characterize as “a difference opinion on homosexuality” rather than the demonizing lie it really is. Savage let that slide too soon, in my opinion.

In my opinion, it was clear which side had strong arguments and which side was trying to play the victim and engage in the usual tactics. However, Brown did the latter with his usual smoothness that I doubt those who were already inclined to believe him will see things differently.

As for those who might be somewhere in the middle, it’s hard to say what they’ll take away, given our current climate where people want to assume the best about (non-LGBT) people and their motives.