Rush Limbaugh: Same-sex marriage will be legal nationwide

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[Sub-Driver]

Rush Limbaugh: Same-sex marriage will be legal nationwide By Chris Moody, Yahoo! News | The Ticket – 57 mins ago

On his radio program on Wednesday, conservative host Rush Limbaugh predicted that same-sex marriage would eventually be made legal "nationwide," regardless of how the Supreme Court rules in cases on the subject later this year.

From the show transcript:

A lot of people have no personal animus against gay people at all. It's instead, you know, a genuine, I don't know, love/respect for the things they believe define this country as great. They get up every day and they see all this stuff under attack. They see it all under assault. And I think they're just worried about the survivability of the country. And to which the opponents say, "Well, the country's changing and you better get with it and understand it because this genie's not getting put back in the bottle." And I think that's right. I don't care what this court does with this particular ruling, Proposition 8. I think the inertia is clearly moving in the direction that there is going to be gay marriage at some point nationwide.

Shifting public opinion on legalized same-sex marriage would pose significant problems for the Republican Party, which relies heavily on a large voting base of social conservatives who could abandon the GOP if the party abandons its opposition. The official platform of the Republican Party still calls for a constitutional amendment that would restrict marriage to one man and one woman.

Limbaugh, who's unsure of what would happen to the party if it changes its position, also said:

[little jeremiah]

Thanks.

I might give a listen; I so much prefer reading as it is faster!

[Rca2000]

Hannity had one on yesterday...quoting from the bible to somehow say CHRIST would welcome gay marriage...he was from the UCC, of course.

[tuffydoodle]

“It needs to be nuked from orbit!”

It’s the only way to be sure.

[sarasmom]

Ding Ding Ding!

We have a winner!

Actually I prefer the correct term - same sex marriage, because that is what all the fuss is about.

Marriage will certainly mean nothing in the future, either morally, societally or legally.

Why shouldn't a mother be allowed to “marry” her adult daughter or granddaughter, or a father marry his adult son or grandson, since they obviously can't reproduce?
One presumes they all LOVE one another.
And whether or not they have “sex”, or what kind of sex they enjoy is none of societies business, is it?

Think of all the wonderfull financial benefits such arrangements could result in for each “married” couple!
That whole inheritance tax concept could be thrown out the window in one fell swoop!

And really, would it be “fair” if Grandma can marry a granddaughter, but not her grandson?
Since marriage doesn't mean anything but legal LOVE, what about the poor grandma that only has grandsons?

If you think I am attempting to be facetious, you are wrong.

Individual homosexuals have never been legally forbidden marriage.
They can currently legally marry any adult of the opposite sex, with at least two degrees of familial biological separation.
That “legal separation” was meant to protect society as a whole from incestuous inbreeding, and also to avoid dynastic and progressively mentally dysfunctional accumulations of power and property

But hey, with legal same sex marriage, inbreeding would no longer be an issue, so mother/daughter, father/son, Uncle/nephew,same sex siblings, first cousins etc...all logically should have the same absolute “right” to marry.

Who can argue against their “love” ?

[Aetius]

I’m not so sure Rush is right about this. If the Sup Court does the right thing and rules that there is no Constitutional right to gay marriage, and that the issue should be handled by the states, then I think a lot of states would maintain traditional marriage laws for the foreseeable future. The only way gay marriage will be recognized in every state is if the Sup Court imposes it. Of course this brings up the even bigger issue of how the Court has usurped so much power, and why we as a nation have let them get away with it. It’s just perverse that a free, self-governing people ultimately have no direct say in the outcome, and instead must wait with baited breath to see which way Anthony Kennedy and John Roberts will vote.

But anyway, it would take a Roe-like activist decision from the Sup Court to get gay marriage recognized nationwide anytime soon. And that is why the Left will not stop seeking such a decision, even if they lose this time. At most it will be a 5-4 decision; how long after President Hillary replaces Scalia do you think it would take for the Left to get another marriage case before a new Sup Court?

So I’d agree with Rush if he’d said that Left will get their Sup Court imposition of gay marriage eventually. If not now it will comes a few years later.

Otherwise the only way I see upwards of half the states voluntarily enacting gay marriage is through economic coercion. I can easily see pressure being put on corporations to refuse to open new facilities in states ‘that hate.’ I’m a little surprised we haven’t seen that happen yet, but I guess they don’t need to worry about that until they see which way Kennedy goes.

[robowombat]

I imagine if one uses only the words of Jesus recorded in the NT one can twist His words in this fashion and then point out Jesus associated with marginalized types such as Roman collaborators and immoral women and an adulteress to make a connection. I wouldn’t as I still have a big enough residual fear of hellfire. The specific prohibitions on homosexual conduct all are in Paul’s Epistles. Fellows like this progressive churchman you refer to frequently like to slander St. Paul, insinuating he was a self hating gay man.

[infowarrior]

So when the fags finally get marriage will they finally shut the f### up?

Don't bet the ranch on it. The next step would be to use government guns to *force* clergy to marry them against said clergy's will. The end game, is to get the government to re-write Scripture, with everyone *forced* to toe the 'approved' line...

the infowarrior