Wait, What? with Michael Savage

I ran across this quote from Savage in 2004 and, just so I'm not accused of taking this out of context, the conversation is a discussion of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission and though it seems that, for a moment, he steps out and bashes human rights in general, I almost want to pretend he's talking strictly about gay rights, as that would add some credence to his bit.

"When you hear 'human rights,' think gays. When you hear 'human rights,' think only one thing: someone who wants to rape your son. ... When you hear 'human rights,' think only someone who wants to molest your son, and send you to jail if you defend him. Write that down, make a note of it."

Firstly, the connection of gays to child molestation is an old and played out line that the religious right uses.

Man-boy pedophilia is a disgusting crime, but to pretend that gay rights activists, should they get marriage rights, are going devolve into NAMBLA is a pretty vicious ad hominem with no basis.

Now, I'm not sure how Savage makes the leap from gay rights to the Nazi's (lets not forget that homosexuals were one of the groups that Hitler wanted to destroy, despite the recent discovery of how many closeted homosexuals were in the high command of Hitler's leadership), I don't get the jump from homosexuality to child-rape.

Savage might argue that it happens within the gay community, but that's a load of crap. Many married, heterosexual men commit sexual assault on minors (male and female). Many priests, thought to be abstinent, commit child molestation.

Are we going to outlaw being gay, married or celibate?

No.

The central note here is that repression of a social group cannot be justified by a social stigma perceived as a part of their lifestyle, especially when we acknowledge that the acts we're talking about supersede that social group.

Michael Savage is a shock jock, more so than Rush Limbaugh or Hannity or O'Reilly, in my opinion (though perhaps only because I grew up hearing about him, since he was local). Still, I expect a shock jock to at least shock me with things that make sense, not with mental gymnastics.