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RUSH: Well, I guess it\u2019s official now. If there was any doubt, there isn\u2019t any longer. My New Year\u2019s resolution to go low profile and not get noticed is officially now out the window. Are you aware of what I\u2019m talking about? I simply proclaim the inevitability of gay marriage, and you would think that God has spoken on this. Honestly! On the left, you would think God has spoken on this.<\/p>\n

JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny South Florida, it\u2019s Open Line Friday!<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: I kid you not. There\u2019s an element, however, that everybody — at least that I\u2019ve seen or heard, and we got sound bites galore on this — is leaving out in reporting my claim yesterday that gay marriage in America is inevitable. What they\u2019re leaving out is rather crucial, in terms of why I made the statement. If you recall, I made that statement after sharing with you the details of a Politico story <\/a>about two Republican consultants, combined with 75 Republicans who signed on to the amicus brief supporting gay marriage at the Supreme Court to overturn Proposition 8.<\/p>\n

The Politico story said that the belief in the elite leadership levels of the Republican Party is to not fight it, to let the Supreme Court decide it. In fact, the desire is that the Supreme Court issue a sweeping ruling and make gay marriage legal in every state. When I saw that, what I interpreted is, “The Republican Party wants the issue to go away.” That\u2019s what the consultants in The Politico story said, and one of them was from Florida. I forget where the other one was from, but it wasn\u2019t just those two. <\/p>\n

Remember, there are 75 Republicans of various ideological persuasions who signed an amicus brief before the court, and the consultants said they don\u2019t want to keep the issue alive. They can\u2019t win in 2014 or 2016 if this issue is still being debated because they\u2019re gonna be called bigots and sexists and homophobes. So just like every other budget deal, they want to let the Democrats have it and move on to the next thing, and the point I made was, “Why don\u2019t we just stop fighting everything?<\/p>\n

“Why don\u2019t we just say, ‘You know what, Democrats? You\u2019re gonna win every election and we\u2019re not gonna argue with you because we don\u2019t want people to hate us.” My conclusion that it is inevitable was based on two things: A, the left isn\u2019t gonna let go of it, ever. They never do, once these things start. Want me to go through the list here? Did they let go of global warming? Have they let go of amnesty? Have they let go of legalizing drugs? Have they let go of banning nuclear weapons? Have they let go of gun control? <\/line><\/p>\n

They don\u2019t ever let anything go — and right now, folks, there\u2019s no pushback from the Republican Party on any of these things. There\u2019s pushback by you. There\u2019s pushback by the Tea Party. There\u2019s pushback by evangelicals. But there\u2019s no pushback from the Republican Party. The Republican Party is doing everything it can to send the signal that it would be okay with some form of amnesty, it\u2019d be okay with some form of gay marriage. In fact, the more the better to get the issue off the table. <\/p>\n

The Republican Party is not really fighting much of anything budget-wise. So my conclusion that gay marriage is inevitable was simply in recognition of what The Politico story said, that the Republican Party wishes it would go away. By that, they mean the Supreme Court issue a sweeping ruling legalizing it in all 50 states. If the primary source of pushback isn\u2019t going to push back, I\u2019m sorry, it\u2019s inevitable. That element of what I said was left out of every report on this.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s fascinating, folks, is that every report treats my proclamation as though it comes from on high. “Rush Limbaugh said gay marriage is inevitable! That means it\u2019s inevitable,” just because I said it. Do you want to hear some sound bites? Here we go. What we have first is CNN Starting Point. This is a montage of Soledad O\u2019Brien and John Berman reporting on my “gay marriage announcement.” (chuckles) It wasn\u2019t an “announcement.” It was political analysis. It wasn\u2019t, by the way, an expression of desire; it was a political analysis. <\/a><\/line><\/p>\n

Anyway, here\u2019s that sound bite…<\/p>\n

SOLEDAD O\u2019BRIEN: (music) It\u2019s over!<\/line><\/p>\n

JOHN BERMAN: Rush Limbaugh telling his listeners that the battle over same-sex marriage is (dramatic pause) over. <\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: This issue is lost. I don\u2019t care what the Supreme Court does. This is now inevitable. 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.<\/p>\n

JOHN BERMAN: So the issue now goes behind closed doors, of course. Justices will spend the next three months drafting their legal opinions outside the public eye until their decision is ready probably at the end of June.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: It won\u2019t matter what it is if there\u2019s not gonna be any pushback on it. Don\u2019t forget now, The Politico had a story yesterday (I\u2019ll keep drumming this out until people get it)<\/a> featuring two Republican consultants who made it clear they hope the court legalizes it. They said the best thing for the party would be for the court to massively make this stuff legal, so it would be another element of criticism the Republicans think would be removed from the table. Oh, and there was also the fundraising angle. <\/p>\n

They actually think it would eliminate some fundraising opportunities for Democrats if the issue were to go away. Hopefully I made mincemeat of that argument yesterday as well<\/a>. Anyway here\u2019s the next sound bite. By the way, there\u2019s one element here of the sound bite they played of me. I want to build on this a little bit today, \u2019cause I talked about the language here being lost. Once we conceded that the definition of marriage isn\u2019t marriage, just in terms of the timing…<\/p>\n

Folks, it is what it is. Once marriage isn\u2019t marriage — once it\u2019s “hetero-marriage,” once it\u2019s “opposite-sex marriage,” once you concede that marriage doesn\u2019t mean what it means — you have effectively lost the argument. I\u2019m speaking there within the context of debate technique, and it goes back to pushback again. There isn\u2019t any Republican pushback. There is either nothing or one degree or another of acquiescence on all these things the left wants, which they never give up. <\/line><\/p>\n

They never stop advancing their agenda, and they don\u2019t care about any causal effects of this. They don\u2019t care if the country\u2019s never gonna be the same. They don\u2019t care if the country\u2019s never gonna be unified. It doesn\u2019t matter to them! There are really two factions in this country — many more, but really two — where there is no commonality. There isn\u2019t any ground for compromise. Anyway, here\u2019s Piers Morgan Live last night CNN. He was talking with — well, just himself, which he does a lot.<\/p>\n

MORGAN: I want to play you an astonishing piece of tape, really. Yesterday we had Bill O\u2019Reilly almost converting to gay marriage. Today, Rush Limbaugh joined in. Listen to this…<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: 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. … [W]e lost the issue when we started allowing the word “marriage” to be bastardized and redefined by simply adding words to it …<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: In terms of debate, that\u2019s not even arguable, folks. We allowed the definition of the word to change so that we could end up being called bigots and all religions could be called bigoted, and Christianity can be called bigoted. Do you realize, as this keeps going, one of the conclusions the left is gonna make is that 2,000 years of Christianity has just been a lie, has just been bigoted? Do you realize what\u2019s at stake here and what is under assault? And there\u2019s no pushback! <\/p>\n

Piers Morgan Live. He did have a guest, Piers Morgan. He had former White House “green jobs czar” Van Jones in there. They played the tape that you just heard of me, and Piers Morgan said, “Sort of reminds me, I imagine, of conversations in America in the fifties and sixties which would go along the lines of — I don\u2019t mind having thought about this quite carefully — black people using the same bus as me, but I\u2019m not really ready for \u2019em to come to the same school. Is it that kind of repositionin…?”<\/line><\/p>\n

I have no clue what this lightweight means with the question, no clue what he\u2019s talking about. He just clearly doesn\u2019t understand even what\u2019s happening here. But here\u2019s what the reason we\u2019re playing this anyway, here\u2019s what Van Jones said…<\/p>\n

JONES: It\u2019s sad. First of all, we are on the verge of one of the great breakthroughs in achievements in human freedom, human equality. I can\u2019t tell you how proud I am to be in a country where people — where the freedom to marry is going to be available to everybody very soon. Rush Limbaugh is right.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, so, from on high, El Rushbo has proclaimed it and therefore it must be. (interruption) Well, I don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t care about Piers Morgan, but the answer that Van Jones gave is quite, quite eye-opening, folks. Having marriage redefined to include anybody now equals “one of the great breakthroughs and achievements in human freedom,” meaning gay people been living in bondage when it comes to marriage, but now they\u2019re about to escape the shackles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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