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RUSH: During the break, I had an e-mail. “Rush, in all of this talk about gay marriage, I haven\u2019t heard what you think about it.” I thought about that. I asked myself, “Is my position on this really not known?” Snerdley, are you curious as to my position on gay marriage? (interruption) Well, let me try it this way. A friend of mine sent me a note, actually, and it\u2019s got some things in it that I think are on point. As usual, what we\u2019re talking about, again, with the left is the language. <\/p>\n

The language game, the left really excels at changing the language to benefit them politically, and they do it in such a way that a lot of people on our side have no idea what\u2019s happened until it\u2019s too late and the issue is already lost, which this issue is. This issue is lost. I don\u2019t care what the Supreme Court does, this is now inevitable — and it\u2019s inevitable because we lost the language on this. I mentioned the other day that I\u2019ve heard people talk about “opposite-sex marriage,” or you might have had heard people say “traditional marriage.”<\/p>\n

You might have heard people say “hetero-marriage.” 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\u2019t established on the basis of denying people anything. “Marriage” is not a tradition that a bunch of people concocted to be mean to other people with. But we allowed the left to have people believe that it was structured that way. <\/p>\n

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I would go so far as to say that there are some people who think marriage is an evil Republican idea, simply because they\u2019re the ones that want to hold on to it. So far as I\u2019m concerned, once we started talking about “gay marriage,” “traditional marriage,” “opposite-sex marriage,” “same-sex marriage,” “hetero-marriage,” we lost. It was over. It was just a matter of time. This is the point a friend of mine sent me a note about.<\/p>\n

“Once you decide to modify the word ‘marriage,\u2019 then the other side has won, or at least they\u2019re 90% of the way home. The best thing that ‘marriage\u2019 had going for it was basically what they teach you the first day in law school: ‘If you hang a sign on a horse that says “cow,” it does not make it a cow,\u2019 although today it might.” That\u2019s where we are: 5 + 5 could = 11, if it works for the Democrats. A cow could be a horse, if it works for the Democrats. The thing is, discrimination has never been a part of marriage. <\/p>\n

It evolved as the best way to unite men and women in raising a family and in cohabitating a life. It\u2019s not perfect. The divorce rate\u2019s what it is. But it evolved with a purpose. It was not a creation of a bunch of elitists wanting to deny people a good time. It was not created as something to deny people “benefits,” but it became that once we started bastardizing the definition. But discrimination is not an issue, and it never was. No one sensible is against giving homosexuals the rights of contract or inheritance or hospital visits. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s nobody that wants to deny them that. The issue has always been denying them a status that they can\u2019t have, by definition. By definition — solely, by definition — same-sex people cannot be married. So instead of maintaining that and holding fast to that, we allowed the argument to be made that the definition needed to change, on the basis that we\u2019re dealing with something discriminatory, bigoted, and all of these mystical things that it\u2019s not and never has been. <\/p>\n

Let me give you an example. <\/p>\n

If I were to say, “The Obama family has more rights than I do. Obama\u2019s family, which hasn\u2019t been elected to anything, get millions of dollars in government benefits. They are globally admired in a way that I\u2019m not. My self-esteem is wounded. The world loves the Obamas and they don\u2019t love me. Therefore, I want to be considered an Obama. From now on, I want to be an Obama so that people respect me and love me — and so that I, too, can take a vacation every month on a big 747.<\/p>\n

“So that I, too, can have access to the federal Treasury, I want to be an Obama. I want to be Rush Hudson Obama the First. It\u2019s not fair that I can\u2019t be an Obama. Look at all the benefits the Obamas have! By the way, the Obamas, only one of them got elected to anything, but look at all the benefits they get that I don\u2019t get. Look at all the admiration that they get that they don\u2019t get, and look at all the media fawning they get I don\u2019t get. <\/p>\n

“Don\u2019t tell me that I can\u2019t be an Obama just because I\u2019m not an Obama! Just because I\u2019m not a member of the family doesn\u2019t mean I can\u2019t be an Obama! I want to be an Obama, and I want to have all the benefits Obama gets. I want to be loved. I want to be rich without having to use any of my own money. I want to be able to blame everybody else for what\u2019s going wrong and I want to be able to get away with not being blamed for anything. I really, really want to be an Obama, and they won\u2019t let me! <\/p>\n

“They\u2019re discriminating against me!<\/p>\n

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“Being an Obama would make me happy. The Declaration says we have the right to ‘life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.\u2019 Well, I would be happy if I was an Obama — and they won\u2019t let me be an Obama! So the law has to change. The law has to change so that I can become an Obama. Just change the definition of what a family is, and I could be an Obama. It\u2019s easy. The whole definition of a family is perverted in this country. Why can\u2019t everybody be a Rockefeller? Why can\u2019t everybody be a Kennedy? <\/p>\n

“Why can\u2019t everybody be an Obama? <\/p>\n

“I want to be an Obama! <\/p>\n

“That\u2019d make me happy. I\u2019d probably be a loving person if I were an Obama!” <\/p>\n

Well, this is what we\u2019re hearing about marriage. <\/p>\n

“I want to be happy. It\u2019s not affecting anybody else. It wouldn\u2019t matter to anybody. Pursuit of happiness, love. Don\u2019t tell me that I already have all the same legal rights as Michelle has. That\u2019s not good enough. I want to ‘feel\u2019 like an Obama, and so the law has to change so that I can say, ‘I am an Obama.\u2019 And if you think that that\u2019s absurd, if you think that my wanting to be an Obama for all the reasons that I\u2019ve stated are wrong — and if you think that my feelings are being hurt because I can\u2019t be an Obama and if you think my being offended because I can\u2019t be an Obama — you\u2019re a bigot!<\/p>\n

“You\u2019re a hater. You\u2019re trying to deny me something I want that wouldn\u2019t hurt anybody else. It wouldn\u2019t affect anybody else. I just want to be an Obama, and the fact that this society isn\u2019t liberated enough and is not kind enough to let me be an Obama means it has to change even if I have to take this all the way the Supreme Court. ‘But wait, Rush. You\u2019re not an Obama.\u2019 It doesn\u2019t matter! I want to be one, and it\u2019s this stupid country\u2019s problem and fault that I can\u2019t. I\u2019m unhappy, and I\u2019m miserable, and I\u2019m discriminated against. Look at all I\u2019m missing out on! <\/p>\n

“Really, folks!<\/p>\n

“Look at all that I am not getting because I can\u2019t be an Obama. <\/p>\n

“So I think the law has to change, and I think we have to change the definition of a family so that I can be an Obama.” <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, I\u2019m just illustrating absurdity by being absurd. Just trying to point out what happens if we lose definitions, which is why we are where we are here. People refuse to stand fast on the definition of something. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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