{"id":12936,"date":"2013-03-18T17:42:26","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T17:42:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-03-18T17:42:26","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T17:42:26","slug":"mrs_clinton_comes_out_for_gay_marriage_rand_paul_wants_marriage_out_of_tax_code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/03\/18\/mrs_clinton_comes_out_for_gay_marriage_rand_paul_wants_marriage_out_of_tax_code\/","title":{"rendered":"Mrs. Clinton Comes Out for Gay Marriage; Rand Paul Wants Marriage Out of Tax Code"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: If you just missed it, the first hour today was devoted to explaining to the Republican Party and everybody else why they are where they are. It\u2019s a neat trick that the Democrats have pulled off. Once again, I — in a way — feel like I ought to apologize.<\/p>\n

This is something I should have figure out 20 years ago, but I just figured it out in a conscious, able-to-explain-it way over the weekend. It\u2019s much like the Limbaugh Theorem. I shoulda figured that out long ago, but eventually I got it. All that\u2019s going on here — gay marriage, illegal aliens, whatever, every issue — is simply a vehicle for the Democrat Party to portray itself as liberators. They\u2019re the great liberators, the party of freedom, the party that\u2019s going to free people from the chains of the no-fun Republican Party.<\/p>\n

It really isn\u2019t any more complicated than that.<\/p>\n

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Now, of course the Democrats don\u2019t liberate anybody. As these groups are ostensibly granted their freedom, what happens? The government gets bigger and we all give up a little freedom, and morality goes to hell. The virtues that define a civil society get trampled on and eliminated in the name of freedom, in the name of liberty. So we end up with freedom without virtue. We have leadership without character. We have hedonism substituting for freedom.<\/p>\n

Guess who it is that doesn\u2019t want you to have freedom and be free?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the Republican Party.<\/p>\n

So the Democrats come on along and what do they do? They put people in groups as victims. All the while I thought this was done to expand one of the state, which it is, but there\u2019s another purpose. Once you\u2019re a victim, it\u2019s a victim of what? Discrimination. What\u2019s that? Anti-freedom. Discrimination and bigotry. What\u2019s that? Racism, bigotry, homophobia, all these things are bias against your freedom, bias against your liberty. Ostensibly. So Democrats constantly need a group that needs liberating.<\/p>\n

They always have to have a group that\u2019s oppressed, and that\u2019s why homosexual marriage has risen to the top now. There\u2019s a battle going on for primacy between the same-sex marriage crowd and illegal aliens. They\u2019re the next group of oppressed people in this country who need to be liberated, who are being denied their Americanism. “They\u2019re being denied their rights, as granted by government,” is what people think. It really isn\u2019t any more complicated than that, when you get right down to it.<\/p>\n

Young people have this almost romantic attachment to civil rights, liberties, emancipating people from oppression, from liberty. The idea that such exists in this country offends me, but it\u2019s pushed and able to be sold because education in this country is so woefully incompetent and inept. Here, just to show you: The Clintons used to be two of the most vocal, anti-gay marriage Democrats you could find — and they got votes on it. They had that position to coalesce voting blocs. Now, Mrs. Clinton has just done a 180, and nobody\u2019s gonna call her on it.<\/p>\n

Barack Obama, up until last summer during the campaign, was totally opposed to gay marriage — and got votes on it. He campaigned on and secured votes by being anti-gay marriage. Or maybe I should say “pro-traditional marriage.” Let\u2019s put it that way. It\u2019s the Republicans who are anti-gay marriage. Democrats are pro-traditional marriage. But all that\u2019s out the window. Something happened, and every Democrat\u2019s now done a 180 and it is the most important issue. Homosexual marriage.<\/p>\n

People try to figure out why. You go about your daily business, turn on the news, and all of a sudden you would think we\u2019re back in the days of slavery, except today\u2019s slaves are homosexuals who are not allowed to get married. You\u2019d think, “What the hell happened while I wasn\u2019t looking? What happened?” What you don\u2019t know is that you are being suckered as a victim yourself. You\u2019re being drawn into some nonexistent oppression, and tyranny that a bunch of poor Americans need to be liberated from. There\u2019s the Democrat Party doing it, and who stands in their way?<\/p>\n

The Republicans.<\/p>\n

(And they wonder why they\u2019ve got a branding problem?)<\/p>\n

You know, maybe the Republicans ought to say something like, “We don\u2019t have designs on your private property. We would never just unilaterally confiscate 10% of your bank account like the liberals in Cyprus and Italy do. We would never advance a wealth tax or seize your bank account to pay for government. We wouldn\u2019t put a bureaucrat between you and your doctor. We wouldn\u2019t pretend that food stamps and unemployment benefits help the economy. We wouldn\u2019t limit your right to self-defense.<\/p>\n

“We wouldn\u2019t spend all day trying to figure out how to separate you from your guns.” I mean, it\u2019s not hard. Conservatism — which is real freedom, which is real liberty — is not that hard. But today\u2019s Republicans think everybody so hates it, so opposes to it, that they\u2019re scared of it. Defense of Marriage Act? That was Bill Clinton! You remember? The Defense of Marriage Act, 1996, was Bill Clinton! The Democrat Party devised it, proposed it, came up with it! The Democrat Party.<\/p>\n

“Defense of marriage,” which said what?<\/p>\n

“We are going to stand united against anything other than marriage being a man and a woman.” The Democrat Party, Bill Clinton — and here it is a little over ten years later, and every Democrat\u2019s done a 180, and nobody\u2019s calling them on it. Why have they switched? Why have they changed their minds? Well, asked and answered. Been there, done that. I\u2019ve given you the answer to everything. It\u2019s time to move on. Here\u2019s Hillary, just to play you the sound bite. This is today. It\u2019s on the Human Rights Campaign website. They released a video of Mrs. Clinton now. You know, she and her husband were right in there with DOMA, Defense of Marriage Act.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know if you\u2019re aware of this, but they\u2019re about to tear that law up. They\u2019re about to pretend it doesn\u2019t exist. Obama stopped enforcing it last year.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Mrs. Clinton…<\/p>\n