Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.

Interest starts accruing now. His political leanings are primarily liberal with pronounced contrarian and libertarian streaks. "
Savage continued the tradition in 2009 by having his readers vote to define saddlebacking as "the phenomenon of Christian teens engaging in unprotected anal sex in order to preserve their virginities" as a protest against the vocal support given to California Proposition 8 by Rick Warren (pastor of Saddleback Church) and President Barack Obama's invitation to Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration.

In 2010 Savage and his husband Terry Miller began the It Gets Better Project to help prevent suicide among LGBT youth. He has also worked as a theater director sometimes credited as Keenan Hollahan. He has been particularly vocal in response to Rick Santorum's views on homosexuality.