Posted on 06/08/2010 6:02:55 PM PDT by Steelfish
JUNE 8, 2010 Rush Limbaugh and Kathryn Rogers: Why Elton John Played Their Wedding
By Zev Chafets
A lot of people were unpleasantly surprised to learn that Elton John, one of the world’s most proudly prominent gay entertainers, played at Rush Limbaugh’s Palm Beach wedding to Kathryn Rogers last Saturday night. Evangelicals voiced dismay that a pious fellow like Rush would give legitimacy to the libertine Sir Elton. Limbaugh-haters jeered at what they considered el Rushbo’s hypocracy.
This demonstrates that even after more than twenty years on the radio, not everyone understands who Limbaugh actually is.
For starters he is not, and has never pretended to be, a member of the Christian Right. As a young disc jockey he invented a fictitious faith healer, “Friar Shuck” who saved people over the radio for a hundred bucks a pop. Shuck is gone now, but Rush’s show still has a rakish, sometimes impious edge. His fans know he was an Oxycontin addict who spent time in rehab, that he unapologetically appreciates “adult beverages” and beautiful women and that his Sunday devotionals take place in the Church of the NFL. As his good friend Roger Ailes once told me, Rush lives the way Jackie Gleason would have lived if Gleason had been rich enough.
On some social issues, like abortion, Limbaugh is a conventional conservative. On others he sounds a lot like Barack Obama. In an interview last summer he told me that he regards homosexuality as most likely determined by biology, considers other people’s sex lives to be none of his business and supports gay civil unions. I’m pretty sure that Elton John’s sexual orientation never even crossed Limbaugh’s mind.
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Listen for three weeks and you will understand.
LLS
Handing out gay porn to elementary school kids is fine with you is it??
Rush is my man.
I don’t have a negative view of him at all. I just don’t revere him as many here seem to do. And I don’t understand why so many conservatives are ga-ga over him. He’s glib and funny, sure. But a lot of dums feel the same way about Keith Olbermann, the male bitch.
I read Limbaugh’s first book, too. It was good but I’m thinking that was, what—over a decade ago? Maybe it’s time to get over him, and Ann C., and the other `buy my book’ cons and move ahead with some novel, 21st century conservative ideology/plan, and pitch this `ranting from the peanut gallery’ mode we seem to be in.
Voters are sick of dems and the GOP, and conservatives are tired, IMHO, of supporting candidates & public figures (authors, commentators, etc.) just because they seem to wear our `colors,’ then they go to DC and become friends with guys like Bill Maher and hire flaming homosexuals to sing at their (4th) wedding, and get chummy with the socialists, and change parties, and so forth and so on.
Maybe it’s just that I just don’t listen to much radio, but that’s my mini-rant. It won’t take me six weeks to learn to appreciate him because I don’t intend to invest that much time in any celebrity political pundit.
Don't be silly please.
Because he can afford it? (must be nice)
It’s not fine??
That’s embarassing.
Yeah, nothing special. I think he’s known for kind of pioneering the market really. I allways thought that Michael Savage was the most entertaining.
I was expecting that reponse. Google Hudson and Landry and draw your on conclusions. The Hudson is not Rush.
“What is wrong with Rush Limbaugh hiring Elton John? If Rush likes his music and they can agree on a price then what’s the big deal?”
What? You’re going to let free market capitalism and individual preferences in music interfere with some good self-righteous stone throwing ?
Fine, touche, I was obviously not precise enough. I was mainly referring to national politics and movements.
When someone has a heart attack because they’re obese, or they contract lung cancer due to their pack-a-day habit; there’s not a soul alive who can’t put two and two together. But when someone contracts AIDS due to their promiscuity - people become deaf and dumb. It’s very peculiar.
“Evangelicals voiced dismay that a pious fellow like Rush would give legitimacy to the libertine Sir Elton.”
I love Rush, but he is not a confessing Christian, hardly what this Evangelical would call a “pious fellow.”
In fact, most of his statements have been to the effect when gays claim that they are "discriminated as blacks have been," that "black's skin color is a matter of birth while gay is not."
I'd ask Zev to back up his statement on Rush's position on gay "behavior."
As to being a fan of someone's art, I'm certain that Rush, as many of us, including social conservative Christians, are not at odds with people but rather believe that "we are all sinners, saved by grace" and "my sin is no more approved of by God than yours." (Some might even call those who presume their sin, less hated by God as "holier than thou.")
Whether Rush or his bride are fans of Elton's talent should be of no consequence, especially his fans.
“Why is no one on the left questioning why Elton agreed to play?”
There were meltdowns at dailykos and democraticunderground.
“To me conservatism is about minimal, responsible and constitutionally limited government and regulating marriage is just not within the domain I see. “
Then you don’t accept the ‘three legged stool’ model -
leg one: social conservatism
leg two: strong defense and foreign policy
leg three: your limited government with low taxation
leg three alone is pretty much “libertarian.”
“Conservatives” see great harm in a society due to social ills such as porn, homosexuality, prostitution, etc., and work against them.
As for the moral values of Christianity, they don’t save anyone from their sins, but they are best for society, and to act as if they aren’t is rather callous.
When they aren’t enforced, people suffer, many of them rather helpless and vulnerable people.
I can relate.
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