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Rush Limbaugh on gay marriage: “This issue is lost” [ What othre issue does Rush concede ?]
hotair.com/ ^ | April 7 2013 | hotair.com/

Posted on 04/07/2013 12:35:22 PM PDT by NoLibZone

Rush claims the battle was lost when conservatives started modifying the word “marriage” (“traditional marriage,” “straight marriage”) to describe the institution rather than insisting that the word itself necessarily refers to traditional/straight relationships and therefore doesn’t require modification.

How would you have enforced that message discipline against the left, though? Their 40 percent of the country would have been calling it “gay marriage” no matter what.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: culturewars; homosexualagenda; rush; talkradio
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To: Yaelle

It is not wise to take morality out of a society for any society to endure long term. The religious voices are important in this discussion. If you don’t have integrity or set standards, the financial system and basis of the government as it is now will always be corrupt. Why change a marriage to accommodate a lifestyle choice (free choice) for some citizens. What’s next to be changed? Why create further stress on the court system and on families. Why do the gays need special rights. It’s amazing people cannot admit that Rush gave the enemy motivation while depressing his listeners. Very disappointed in ElRushbo. A team wins with confidence. He gave reason for uncertainly; when we have no opposition voices in leadership (as he knows very well) who will not speak up. I think it was a bad move. It’s done now. We can disagree though.


61 posted on 04/07/2013 3:22:13 PM PDT by Christie at the beach
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To: Steelfish

Serious conservatives don’t continue to drone on and on about that which they know little about......


62 posted on 04/07/2013 3:32:46 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: Bryan24

—>>We can only win by taking down the mainstream media. To take down/abandon Rush as you are doing is helping them win.

By the way, I didn’t speak for Rush. He plans for his show so if there’s any fallout/praise, talk to Rush.


63 posted on 04/07/2013 3:33:36 PM PDT by Christie at the beach
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Serious conservatives don’t have to listen to Limbaugh to get their brains activated in his morning talk show.


64 posted on 04/07/2013 3:38:18 PM PDT by Steelfish (ui)
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To: Christie at the beach
Well..going on and on and on about this as a given is not an inspirational motive for the opposition to defend traditional marriage.

Sadly, it seems that Rush no longer wants to be inspirational. Though at least he discusses some social issues these days. He rarely did in the past. I think he's come late to the realization that politics is downstream of culture.


65 posted on 04/07/2013 3:55:21 PM PDT by Cinnamontea
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To: NoLibZone
Is Rush just in it for the cash now?

Rush, Hannity, Beck and all of the rest have always been in it for the cash. Rush, especially, could have run for President and won with the ideas he has...but, he won't do it. No one wants to face the real fire. However, making money on the side selling tickets to watch the fire is a lucrative proposition.

66 posted on 04/07/2013 4:16:14 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Steelfish

“It should have been an eye-opener when Rush who brands himself as a conservative icon calls upon the world’s most
notorious fag to perform at his wedding. Rush has begun to seriously believe that we are all stupid dittoheads and drink from his fountain of conservative thinking.”

I stopped listening to him regularly several years ago; for those who still do, has he admitted on-air that he supports civil unions or does he save that little tidbit for interviews he doesn’t think you’ll read?

There are two Rush Limbaughs: the man himself, and the character he plays on the radio. Conflate the two at your peril. He’s a very successful entertainer, nothing more.


67 posted on 04/07/2013 4:17:41 PM PDT by highball ("I never should have switched from scotch to martinis." -- the last words of Humphrey Bogart)
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To: JerseyDvl
These people care very little for the common man although they pretend to.

Really. And what have you done for "the common man" lately?

besides, who said it was their responsibility to care about "the common man" anymore than anyone else?

68 posted on 04/07/2013 4:18:56 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: NoLibZone

I think it is lost. I think the entire country is lost. Conservatives are being bred out of this society and will be non-existent in less than 50 years. The history books will be overhauled to create criminals of us and all of our principled leaders, etc. We’ve seen this in progress for 50 years now and it is continuing in every school in the country. Unfettered immigration is speeding it up, too, and there’s zero we can seemingly do about it.


69 posted on 04/07/2013 4:24:26 PM PDT by SoDak
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To: RIghtwardHo
Rush and crew are irrelevant to the human condition.

Really? As compared to you, who has done what for "the human condition" besides nothing?.

70 posted on 04/07/2013 4:25:18 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: NoLibZone

surrender is not going to win any votes

How votes is the GOPe willing to lose over this issue by giving up?


71 posted on 04/07/2013 4:45:57 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: NoLibZone

Marriage it self is lost so long as it is integrated with the sin of sodomy its meaning cannot be made truly be compatible with its propose.


72 posted on 04/07/2013 4:59:57 PM PDT by Monorprise (`)
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To: ctdonath2

“Not lost.
Someday society will rediscover the fact that “breeders” are different from every other permutation of “couple”, and need be treated different to improve society.”

I agree and on that day marriage will be rediscovered.


73 posted on 04/07/2013 5:00:47 PM PDT by Monorprise (`)
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To: NoLibZone

How can Rush not concede? It was over when the MSM started calling it “marriage equality”. Now if you are for real marriage, you’re an anti-equality bigot.


74 posted on 04/07/2013 5:16:50 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte ( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
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To: NoLibZone
Is Rush just in it for the cash now?


"Now" ?

                           

75 posted on 04/07/2013 5:21:18 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: NoLibZone
Is Rush just in it for the cash now?

What, did he only accept checks before?

76 posted on 04/07/2013 5:22:27 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Bryan24

We can only win by taking down the mainstream media. To take down/abandon Rush as you are doing is helping them win.


They aren’t going to listen to you. They don’t care if they end up helping Pravda USA.


77 posted on 04/07/2013 5:29:28 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: Yaelle
"In some ways it is the fault of the religious. They spent so much time worrying about other people’s sins. The Bible warns against it. Just because you wear a necklace calling yourself a Christian or Jew doesn’t mean you don’t sin. You do. In the public discourse, focus only on your OWN sins. You are no cleaner than most others on the planet."

Who in the world says Christians don't sin? Everyone does, and no one has claimed otherwise. The Bible instructs us to speak up about sin, but when we do, to make sure we aren't committing the same offense. Otherwise, Scripture tells us how TO judge sin.

Liars, thieves, and adulterers aren't running around, demanding people fawn over them and approve of their behavior. People are falling over themselves to cave to the homofascists. I never will.

" We could have shown compassion for gays as human beings and tried to help. Jesus would have. I’m not Christian but even I know Jesus ignored people’s sins and tried to serve them."

Jesus ignored people's sins......what?? No. He did not.

Visit San Francisco, where you can see queers prancing naked in public, urinating on each other and drinking it, and parading their adopted children around in leather. Or, maybe you might be at a Catholic Mass when a bunch of them invade God's house and commit sacrilege against the Eucharist.

My compassion is damn well running at an all-time low.

78 posted on 04/07/2013 5:40:43 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon (Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Go tell it to YOUR boss.


79 posted on 04/07/2013 5:42:11 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: dfwgator

I think when he hired Elton John for his wedding that should have told us, how we would be on this issue.

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Amen!


80 posted on 04/07/2013 5:44:22 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved! -Ps80)
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