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Rush Limbaugh: Same-sex marriage will be legal nationwide
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Posted on 03/28/2013 7:38:59 AM PDT by 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:

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TOPICS: Editorial
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; limbaugh; predictions; romneyagenda; romneymarriage; rush; rushlimbaugh; scotusmarriage; ssm
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1 posted on 03/28/2013 7:38:59 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver
I disagree with Rush slightly, he seems to be saying that even if the Supreme Court rules their is no constitutional right to gay marriage, that the states will end up legalizing it anyway. I just don't see States, like my home state of West Virginia, where the polls show the opposition to gay marriage has actually increase from 68% in 2009 to 72% now, legalizing it anytime soon (soon being in my lifetime). Also many states have Constitutional Amendments, which take a super majority to repeal, so legalizing gay marriage wouldn't be as simple as passing a law.
2 posted on 03/28/2013 7:49:52 AM PDT by apillar
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To: apillar

DOMA only needs 40 stated to be overridden per its own language.


3 posted on 03/28/2013 7:51:39 AM PDT by mnehring
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To: Sub-Driver

After the Obamacare ruling, I do expect anything good to come out of this SCOTUS. If I am pleasantly surprised by a ruling coming from this Court....great. But I am not counting on it.


4 posted on 03/28/2013 7:54:46 AM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: apillar

How long before I can marry my wife’s sister and her daughter? Hey forget about North Korea, when obammma comes back from his vacation, he’ll apologize to N.K. and bow down to Dunghungloe or whatever his name is and then off to the vinyard for a well deserved break


5 posted on 03/28/2013 7:55:12 AM PDT by shadeaud (We need to learn to know what our enemies are truly creating)
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To: mnehring
DOMA only needs 40 stated to be overridden per its own language.

True, but even if repealed DOMA doesn't have any effect on whether a state can ban gay marriage or not, all DOMA does is prevent federal recogniton (and benefits) to gay couples in the states that do recognize it.

6 posted on 03/28/2013 7:56:47 AM PDT by apillar
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To: Sub-Driver

None of this should even be debated on Capitol Hill. This is a state’s rights issue. If California wants to be the new Sodom, and Massachusetts the new Gommorah, then let them. The Feds should not be into this issue. This is a slippery slope into continued Federal overreach.

Our Founders are pissed.


7 posted on 03/28/2013 8:02:58 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: Sub-Driver

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


8 posted on 03/28/2013 8:03:01 AM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: apillar

Which states need super majorities to repeal their amendments? We are talking about the popular vote amendments or the the ones passed by the legislature or doesn’t that matter?

Freegards


9 posted on 03/28/2013 8:03:17 AM PDT by Ransomed
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To: apillar

I’m thinking Louisiana won’t follow the Sodom course as well.


10 posted on 03/28/2013 8:03:42 AM PDT by Bitsy
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To: Sub-Driver

all pedophiles should burn for all eternity

does anyone disagree with that? of course... the left.


11 posted on 03/28/2013 8:04:34 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: rarestia
If California wants to be the new Sodom,

California voted against fags marrying.

12 posted on 03/28/2013 8:04:37 AM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: apillar

True..it will be up to the states completely and I don’t see most changing their stances anytime soon.


13 posted on 03/28/2013 8:04:59 AM PDT by what's up
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To: hattend

But the courts and the state government won’t uphold it or defend the people.


14 posted on 03/28/2013 8:05:24 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: hattend

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

No, they’ll ask your church to marry them and then imprison your pastor for refusing.


15 posted on 03/28/2013 8:05:24 AM PDT by struggle (http://killthegovernment.wordpress.com/)
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To: struggle

And it only gets worse from there.

Once this wall falls, so does EVERY other. When a civil right, that is a statue created by man and trump a natural right, that is an endowment from God, no natural right is safe.

This is the last wall. Once breached. The entire game of Western Civilization is over.

Prepare for a dark dark age.


16 posted on 03/28/2013 8:08:34 AM PDT by Waywardson (I did not vote for that pro-abortionist candidate!)
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To: apillar
It is amazing that our once great country as been reduced to accepting any decision made on demand of 1-2 percent of the population. It is disgusting that progressives have such little moral values. But, I guess they don't have to live up to much.
17 posted on 03/28/2013 8:09:37 AM PDT by Bitsy
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To: Sub-Driver

We started down this long and weary road in 1970, when Ronald Reagan signed no fault divorce into law in California. Before that, marriage was indeed viewed as sacred, special, and important. Now it is simply a social contract that arguably anyone can enter into and out of with impunity and without cause or reason.


18 posted on 03/28/2013 8:11:18 AM PDT by Burkean (.)
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To: Sub-Driver
If the Republican Party supports homosexual marriages, social-issue conservatives will abandon the Republican Party by the millions.

Yes, by the millions.

Hey, RINO’s: try to win a national election without us.

19 posted on 03/28/2013 8:12:42 AM PDT by Oak Grove
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To: Sub-Driver

Sadly I have come to the same conclusion as Rush.

Only one side showed up for this PR battle (public opinion) and of course Obama got two SCOTUS picks, Kennedy is with them on the issue.


20 posted on 03/28/2013 8:13:10 AM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position.)
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