• Washington Monthly, Tuesday, March 8, 2011 4 PM

Sex columnist Dan Savage has a "legitimate claim to being America's most influential advice columnist,"writes Benjamin J. Dueholm in Washington Monthly.

Though known as "a kind of gonzo avenging angel for the nation's sexual minorities," as Dueholm puts it, Savage has also acquired "a kind of mainstream acceptance, ubiquity and respect that might have been unthinkable a decade ago," writes Sadie Stein on Jezebel. "He's not just the most-read advice columnist in America, but, with the launch of his upcoming MTV show, likely to be the best-known, too."

Dueholm, a Lutheran pastor, argues in his long, analytical piece that "the questions [Savage] takes up are more relevant to the people in my pews than the arguments over contraception, cohabitation, divorce, and homosexuality that still roil some parts of the church."

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