Posted on 05/11/2015 11:31:21 AM PDT by servo1969
RUSH: There are rolling themes on this program. There are umbrella items under which fall a number of, oh, stories and sub-ideas, sub-topics, if you will. One of the themes of this program for its duration since we started, and actually predating this program going back to when I was in Sacramento, has been that the American left and the Democrat Party are engaged in an escalating -- and it has been escalating year after year after year -- attack on the institutions and traditions that have defined and made American greatness. Not just political institutions, but social institutions and traditions and cultural institutions and traditions.
And it's not stopped. And every so often there is a new line of attack. Some of the items that are attacked and assaulted are huge, like marriage. Marriage is an institution and tradition that has been in the crosshairs of the American left for as long as they have had a hatred of religion. They have made repeated, consistent efforts to undermine the tradition of marriage, and they've succeeded. They're well on their way to rendering the whole point of marriage new, different, and meaningless as it relates to the primary reason it even came into existence.
There are many things like this that the left is -- religion, as a giant topic and things that come underneath this, such as gay marriage...speaking of, I got an idea. I thought of something over the weekend, because the left is not through promoting gay marriage. Now, what has happened is that the resistance to gay rights and gay marriage is practically gone, so they've had to come up with a new substitute for it in order to keep the protest meme or narrative alive. And that has resulted in now a major push for equality and fairness and justice for lesbians, gays, and transgenders and bisexual people.
Since gay marriage is a fait accompli, no matter what the Supreme Court says, it's a fait accompli, up next, transgenders. They will be the next aggrieved victimhood or group of victims that will require attention, and the majority will need to be attacked as discriminatory and mean in order to pave the way for the normalcy of the transgendered status of human beings. That's just a little aside. And, in fact, we've already seen this.
But here is an idea I've got because they're not through. I mean, they never give up. To them, nothing is ever mission accomplished, because there's always gonna be some holdouts. There's always gonna be some people that oppose normalizing gay rights and agreeing to the concept of gay marriage and redefining it. There's always gonna be holdouts. There will always be religious people that own businesses that will refuse to serve or do business with people promoting activity that violate someone's religious practices. So to date we've had gay activist groups target bakeries and photography stores and similar types of things in order to prove discrimination, to show a bias and to beat down opposition.
Well, one of the things we've learned recently, and frankly I'm pleasantly surprised by this, that so many people on the left have agreed with me. We go out of our way to not offend Muslims, and we chastise anybody who does anything along the lines of, say, drawing cartoon characters of the prophet Mohammed, right? We don't permit that. We frown on that, and we condemn anybody that does that, because, why? Well, there's no need to provoke millions and millions of Islamic people, Muslims who are not terrorists. Why do it, and anybody who engages in a cartoon rendering of the prophet Mohammed is chastised and ripped to shreds and criticized because we dare not offend our Muslim brothers and sisters.
I pointed out the other day, well, then should we maybe stop flouting and flaunting gay marriage, because gay marriage is really disapproved in Islam. Gay marriage, homosexual behavior is not tolerated, it is not permitted, and it is punished severely when it is caught, when it's spied. And yet in American media all over the place we are celebrating gay marriage, we are flaunting gay marriage, and I ask, does this not also offend Muslims?
Where do we draw the line, I asked poignantly, in what aspects of Islam we will respect and others we will ignore. When it comes to pictures of the cartoon drawings of the prophet, we will absolutely obey the demands of militant Islam and we will not only refrain from drawing cartoons, we will condemn and seek to destroy anybody who does. But MSNBC, CNN, TIME magazine, the New York Times can readily, happily promote gay marriage and gay rights all day long, and the Muslims are supposed shut up about it?
Why, on the one hand, do we respect their wishes when it comes to cartoon renderings of the prophet Mohammed and ignore their wishes and ignore what they claim upsets them and angers them when it comes to gay marriage? Therefore I have an idea. I know that many of you out there run businesses that if a gay couple, a married gay couple came in and asked for your service, you would deny it on the basis that you disapprove, your religion does not sanction the approval of gay marriage.
My idea for you is quite simple. Don't use that as the excuse anymore. Let's say that you own the ABC wedding cake bakery. The only thing you do is you bake wedding cakes. And as such, militant gay activists target your bakery. They're gonna take you out, they're gonna take you down, they're gonna walk in there, they're gonna tell you they're gonna get married, and of all the bakeries in the world, yours has been recommended to them because that's all you do, therefore you must be better than anybody else at baking wedding cakes.
Instead of telling the gay couple that you refuse to bake the cake for their wedding because you disapprove of homosexuality, you should now say you are not going to bake a cake for the gay wedding because you fear Muslim backlash. Or, due to your respect of Islam, you cannot bake a cake for a gay wedding. See how that flies. Since the left is agreeing, a bunch of people on the left have gone on TV, "I hate to say this, you know, Limbaugh's got a point. We do flaunt gay marriage at 'em, wow. Wow. That's a good point. I mean, we readily agree not to do the thing with the prophet and the pictures and the cartoons, but gay marriage, yeah, we're kind of in their face on that."
Well, just make a note. Any of you small business owners who think you're gonna get a visit from a gay couple asking you for your product or service at a gay wedding just say, "Nah, nah, nah, we refuse because of our respect of Islam. We can't." Don't say anything about your religion. Don't say anything about it's your religion that prevents you from doing it. Say it's Islam. You respect Islam or you're afraid of Muslim backlash. See how that flies. It's just an idea. Hope it works.
“Your actual reasons for refusal is between you and God.”
Is it? Whatever happened to “don’t hide your light under a bushel”? Or “whoever denies me before men I will deny before the Father”?
I would LOVE to bake that cake BUT it would offend Muslims. LOL Rush rules...
IOW - those who can’t “do”, teach...
Rush thinks childbearing is optional in marriage. He is perfectly fine with the notion of entering into marriage with the intention of never having a child. The main thing is mutual attraction and sexual satisfaction. Those are the basis of the argument for gay marriage.
Rush’s disordered view of marriage is well within the American mainstream, which makes it inevitable that this country will not — cannot — see anything wrong with same sex marriage.
Unfortunately, in today's world, you're punished for being principled and honest.
God bless you, I am in total agreement.
Yeah, and just think of all those people who fake it - year after year of marriage, and those stinking liars still never have even one child. And don't even start about whether the bride is an actual virgin! Stinking whores everywhere, I tellya.
Nope, we need to bring back accountability. Publicly documented sex on the wedding day, hang the bloody sheet out the window to prove virginity, and definitely forced coupling under supervision until pregnancy is confirmed. Otherwise what do you have? Marriage based on so-called "love" instead of the God-required stock breeding that provides all the morality the world will ever need, and none of the moral corruption we see all around us.
Its about time things were set right again, says I.
These days you can believe just about anything and still call yourself conservative.
You’re playing for the other team and don’t even know it.
I still prefer the following sign,
“We gladly cater to gay ceremonies. All proceeds will be cheerfully donated to Ted Cruz for President.”
I’d go with - “No hablo inglés!”
Yes. I’m called to be honest and honorable and principled, not clever.
I’ve always been honest. If I did something wrong, I fessed up to it and took the punishment. Sometimes it sucks having a conscience.
Rush rules is right. “Personally, I have nothing against it. But those radical Muslims might cut my head off.”
Really? I thought I agreed with you. Is there something in particular I got wrong?
And that word - "conservative." As I'm an American, to me it refers to the US Constitution. You want to teach me how I'm going against that? I'm all ears.
Childbearing is optional in marriage, that isn't an opinion, it's a fact.
"The main thing is mutual attraction and sexual satisfaction. Those are the basis of the argument for gay marriage.
Well no, that isn't the basis of the argument for gay marriage. They claim, as a basis of their argument, that it's about equality and civil rights. It still doesn't make any sense, but that is the basis of their argument.
...which makes it inevitable that this country will not — cannot — see anything wrong with same sex marriage....
I would say it's more that people don't understand the basis of the homosexual argument, and therefore don't understand how to dispute it with rationality and reason.
Congratulations; you are now an advocate for gay marriage.
If marriage is going to be re-defined as unmoored from childbearing and motivated entirely by mutual attraction, there will be NO reasonable basis for denying it to same sex couples. The liberal view of marriage, accepting of contraception and divorce, is entirely mainstream in America today, and gays are absolutely correct in asserting that in such an environment there’s no reason apart from discriminatory animus, for arguing that same sex couples should not enjoy equal access. This was baked in the cake when the Protestant churches caved first on divorce, and post-1930, on contraception.
If you have a rational argument against same sex marriage — or better still, what REAL marriage is — let’s hear it. But do not kid yourself that you can gut marriage of its essential orientation to childbearing and still retain an argument that can stand up.
As to my rational argument against homosexuals destroying marriage I would start with the unalterable fact that homosexuals have the exact same rights as heterosexuals they just don't wish utilize these right preferring their chosen fetish instead. Willing abrogation of rights is not a legally rational reason to ask for more rights. Then it can be further argued that there is no real reason for the cultural institution of marriage to be overthrown when everything they are asking for can be handled with civil unions.
Lastly and most importantly it should be recognized that marriage as an institution was formulated by our shared Judeo-Christian western ethos. As it is the basic building block of our civilization it should enjoy respect and protection from it being undermined. It predates our Government by centuries and as there is no constitutionally enumerated power for government to regulate marriage as it has no legitimate say over it, period. Their only involvement should be in enforcing the marriage contract.
Marriage is a vital social construct and child bearing is an important facet but its essential role can be filled without the marriage being a productive union.
Just charge 1 million for the cake.
This is where you go wrong. That is precisely the gay argument.
If marriage is a social construct, it can change. The only thing that makes marriage not susceptible to change is the fact that it's not socially constructed at all. It's not man-made. It's given, with the rest of human nature, and childbearing is part of that nature, unless someone frustrates the course of nature.
The shared Judeo-Christian tradition to which you appeal has no concept of marriage as a thing that can be severed from childbearing. Modern day Jews or Christians asserting to the contrary are not a continuation of that tradition, but a departure from it.
Just imagine you are on the witness stand being asked these questions? If marriage is a given why do so many people have children outside of marriage? If Marriage is a given how do you explain how different cultures have radically different family constructs if they have any similar constructs at all if? Do you support divorce for infertile marriages? Do you support divorce for those past their child breeding years or, for that matter, should people outside of their fertile years (or otherwise infertile) people be allowed to marry? What is the purpose of a marriage that beyond the respective spouse's fertile years? If marriage is intrinsically about childbirth should childbirth outside of marriage be illegal? If having children is the primary purpose of a marriage, would a marriage that resulted in 5 children be a better marriage than one that resulted in two children? Does it matter who raises the children once they are born if the marriage is primarily about having children? Historically or Biblically has marriage been legitimately or customarily terminated because of infertility (in the Judeo-Christian culture)? Historically and or Biblically has marriage been customarily prohibited between men and women who could no longer have children (in the Judeo-Christian culture)? Historically or Biblically (in the Judeo-Christian culture) has the number of children borne been more important the how well they were raised?
It is against these sort of poorly thought out arguments that homosexual marriage advocates have had so much success.
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