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RUSH: Here\u2019s Lisa, Morristown, New Jersey. Hi, Lisa. Great to have you on the program. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, it\u2019s an honor to speak with you, Rush. Thank you so much for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The point I wanted to make is Barack Obama, in his inaugural address this past January — you can Google it — made this statement reflecting that we should accept gay marriage, “that their love and commitment should be considered just as equal as anyone else\u2019s love and commitment.” Namely the heterosexual communities. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

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CALLER: Well, based on that statement, he\u2019s just reducing and diminishing the entire definition of marriage because then anybody could come into the fray and say that my love and commitment is as equal to anyone else\u2019s, and that\u2019s where this is heading down this slippery slope, because — in fact, Antonin Scalia, back in a case in 2003 with Lawrence v. Texas — I\u2019m reading it from an article — it says, “If the high court removes one natural parameter for one special interest group, then that equal protection under the law would require that it removes all natural marriage parameters for all special interest groups.” And that\u2019s why the next natural thing that\u2019s going to occur if they would make gay marriage the law of the land, is that every single group, from polygamy, from minor to adult relationships that are consensual, they\u2019ll all be considered having to have equal protection under the allow.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, wait a minute, wait a minute, everybody knows that\u2019s not what Obama meant. That says what these people would say to you. Obama didn\u2019t mean that an adult man could get married to a 14-year-old boy simply because there\u2019s love. He didn\u2019t mean that. But what you\u2019re saying is, wait a minute, once the legal boundaries are gone or obliterated, anything fits the definition of love.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s right. And the other thing is, everybody\u2019s missing this point. I\u2019ve been following and researching this issue because I\u2019m so angered by this phony civil right framing that they\u2019ve done and they\u2019ve been successful at it. You have to look at what the criteria is. Marriage is a legal contract. Being a black person or getting a civil right simply because you\u2019re a person, that\u2019s a dignity of the human person. A marriage, if you ask a matrimonial lawyer, involves criteria being met, and societies — or, rather, government got involved from the get-go overseeing and regulating marriage for the protection of generational continuity, meaning that you had the propensity in your marriage union to bring forth children. So, as you were saying earlier with Justice Roberts bringing out that point that now we would have to really remove the entire definition and reconstruct it. And if you\u2019re really equal you would be able to be equal, two people, and satisfy all the criteria which gays cannot do because they cannot procreate. So when they cry marriage equality, you can\u2019t give it to them not because you\u2019re biased. Because they don\u2019t satisfy all the criteria. If you look up the word equal, they have to have abilities. Everything has to be equal, and they\u2019re not, so right there it\u2019s an unbiased way of telling a gay marriage proponent–<\/p>\n

RUSH: When you put it that way you are losing everybody under 30. When you talk about it that way, you are encouraging support. I\u2019m not saying you\u2019re wrong. Just in discussing it, when you say they are not equal, you\u2019re creating sympathy like you cannot imagine.<\/p>\n

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CALLER: The person is equal. They have rights. The gay person should have rights. They\u2019re a person. The dignity of the human person is recognized as a true civil right. But now we\u2019re talking about union status. That\u2019s what\u2019s up for the question, not whether a gay person —<\/p>\n

RUSH: The civil right vanishes once a choice is made. People don\u2019t have a choice being black, being female, being whatever, they don\u2019t have a choice. Marriage is a choice. And you do. It is a contract that you enter into and nobody\u2019s denied that. There are certain ways that adults can get married. The definition is what it is, and it\u2019s in the process of being obliterated. But I am just saying that even though you are within the concept of the law a hundred percent right, when you characterize it as — and you get in their face, say, “You are not equal because you cannot fulfill one of the requirements, i.e., procreation…” “You\u2019re not fair! You can\u2019t say people are not equal! Not fair! They are equal, they\u2019re human beings and they love people (crying),” and the argument is advanced. Anyway, I appreciate the call. I know exactly what you\u2019re saying. This is simply a matter of semantics and we\u2019re at a point now where low-information people are involved, and emotion trumps all kinds of reason, fact, law. None of that matters in this. <\/p>\n

I gotta take a break. We\u2019ll be back. Don\u2019t go away, folks.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: She was talking about contracts, folks, just so you understand, and we all are equal in the ability to make contracts. Everybody can contract with a member of the opposite sex to marry them, but her point was if same sex fits the bill of the contract, then everything fits the bill. And at some point, who\u2019s to say you cannot have sex with a child, at some point? I mean, if love is involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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