What rush limbaugh said about gays
My dad listened to Rush Limbaugh assault gay people love me, and echoed his contempt
My father started listening to Rush Limbaugh in the 1990s, about the time he retired as a scientist, while living in Cincinnati. I lived in Washington, D.C., working as a field organizer for national organizations that supported civil rights and sought to count and punish hate crimes against what we then called the gay community.
By coincidence, Cincinnati was a hot spot for efforts by religious conservative organizations to stop the movement for legal protections from discrimination for LGBT people and attacks fueled by bigotry, including dislike crimes, against us. I had reach out to my parents about four years earlier. I was selective in describing the risks or threats I experienced, including a taxi that once started to control off with my then-boyfriend’s hand on the handle.
I was also deeply emotionally attached in the 1993 campaign in Cincinnati against a measure, Issue 3, to amend the capital charter to ban any law that grants “minority or protected status … or other preferential treatment” to homosexual men, lesbians or bisexuals. The measure, the focus of a divisive campaign filled with harsh invective ove
Rush Limbaugh on gay marriage: 'This is going to happen'
Forget the polls. You know the tide on gay marriage in this country has turned when Rush Limbaugh has resigned himself to the notion of its inevitability.
The conservative shock jock admitted on his radio show Wednesday that it's only a matter of time before gay marriage is the law of the land.
"The bottom line is all of this is academic. This is going to happen, whether it happens now at the Supreme Court or somehow later, it is going to happen. It's just the direction the culture is heading. There is hardly any opposition to this. The opposition that you would suspect exists is crumbling on it," Limbaugh said.
Indeed, a number of lawmakers have recently changed their tune on queer marriage, including Republican Ohio GOP Sen. Rob Portman, moderate Democratic Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill and North Carolina's Sen. Kay Hagan
The latest edition of Time magazine reflected the shift.It features two different provocative covers, showing a female and a male same-sex couple kissing, with a headline that reads: Gay Marriage Already Won. The Supreme Court Hasn't Made Up It's Mind--But America Has.
"However the Cour
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh is facing heat over his remarks about Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg on his show Wednesday. Limbaugh, who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom last week, suggested that Buttigieg, who is openly gay, wouldn't watch as masculine facing President Trump because he "loves to kiss his husband on the debate stage."
Limbaugh has a long history of making inflammatory comments on the air. While discussing the leading Democrats in the 2020 presidential race, he wondered how some would fare against President Donald Trump in a debate. In audio flagged Media Matters, Limbaugh predicted that Mr. Trump would "wipe the floor" with Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar, before turning his focus to Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana.
"They're looking at Mayor Pete, 37-year-old gay guy, mayor of South Bend, loves to kiss his husband on the debate stage," Limbaugh said. "And they're saying, OK, how's this going to look, 37-year-old gay guy kissing his husband on stage next to Mr. Man Donald Trump? What's going to happen there?"
Limbaugh said that "despite all the fantastic progress" made for queer rights in
Rush vs. O’Reilly: Conservative pundits feud over marriage equality
The most famous conservative of television and of radio are in a bit of a spat. Rush Limbaugh has accused Bill O'Reilly of "marginalizing" some conservative Christians over marriage equality. MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell serves as their couples counselor in his latest Rewrite.
Conservative radio talk display host Rush Limbaugh went after Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly Wednesday for saying same-sex marriage opponents don’t have a “compelling” argument other than “thumping the Bible.”
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell spoke about the tense affair between the “king and queen” of Republican media on Wednesday’s Rewrite segment. Their hostility is so strong that they typically refuse to acknowledge one another on the wind, O’Donnell said of the two conservative pundits. But Limbaugh couldn’t resist ripping O’Reilly over a biblical reference he made on his show while condemning the argument against male lover marriage.
On Tuesday night, O’Reilly agreed with guest Megyn Kelly and said that the “compelling argument is on the side of homosexuals.” Limbaugh then accused O’Reilly of marginalizing his own viewers–opponents of same-sex attracted marriage–b
Rush Limbaugh: Regardless of Supreme Court Judgment Gay Marriage Is 'Inevitable'
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In his radio show today, conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh said defenders of traditional marriage have confused the battle, even though the Supreme Court won't hand down its decisions for another not many months.
"I don't care what the Supreme Court does, this is now inevitable," Limbaugh said, "and it's inevitable because we missing the language on this."
Limbaugh took issue with the idea that the word marriage was already applied to gay couples. Therefore, he asserted, modifiers like "hetero" or "opposite-sex" are now at times added to denote a union between a man and a woman.
"I maintain to you that we lost the issue when we started allowing the word 'marriage' to be bastardized and redefined by simply adding words to it - because marriage is one thing, and it was not established on the basis of discrimination. It wasn't established on the basis of denying people anything," the radio host said. "Marriage is not a tradition that a bunch of people concocted to be represent to other people with. But we allowed the left to have people believe that it was structured that