Limbaugh Gives Up On Anti-Gay Marriage Fight: ‘This Issue Is Lost,’ ‘It Is Now Inevitable’
On his radio show this afternoon, Rush Limbaugh seemed to wave the white flag over his opposition to same-sex marriage. “This issue is lost,” he said. “It is now inevitable” that gay marriage will come to pass, regardless of how the Supreme Court rules on two separate cases related to the issue.
“We lost the issue when we started allowing the word ‘marriage’ to be bastardized and redefined,” Limbaugh explained, pointing the finger at “the left,” whom he believes has attempted to co-opt the word “marriage” to go beyond its definition.
“Once you decide to modify the word marriage then the other side has won,” he lamented. “The best thing that marriage had going for it was basically what they teach you the first day in law school: If you hang on a horse the sign that says ‘Cow,’ it does not make it a cow.”
“Although today it might,” he added. “And that’s where we are today.”
Limbaugh went on to dismiss the notion that anti-LGBT discrimination plays any role in the same-sex marriage fight: “Discrimination is not an issue and never was. No one sensible is against giving homosexuals the rights of contract, or inheritance, or hospital visits. There’s nobody that wants to deny them that. The issue has always been denying them a status that they can’t have by definition.”
“And by definition,” he concluded, “same sex people cannot be married.”
Listen below:
[h/t MofoPolitics]
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