{"id":12937,"date":"2013-03-18T16:31:52","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T16:31:52","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-03-18T16:31:52","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T16:31:52","slug":"gay_marriage_and_freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/03\/18\/gay_marriage_and_freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay Marriage and Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: I\u2019ll tell you, there\u2019s something else I\u2019d like to spend some time on today and develop further if it works out. I\u2019m making no commitments. Hillary Clinton has come out today for gay marriage.<\/a> I warned you about this months ago.<\/p>\n

This issue has now catapulted to the top seemingly of everybody\u2019s list. It\u2019s stunning the way this has happened. In the millennial generation, 25 and under, it\u2019s all that matters. Gay marriage. Young conservatives 30 and under, 35 and other, Manhattan bar scene conservative: Gay marriage, all that matters. People are willing to leave the party if the party doesn\u2019t change its mind, and you know how it\u2019s happening? Not just on the basis that love is a wonderful thing and who are we to say somebody could or could not love somebody.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s also coming under the umbrella of freedom. This is something that concerns me, because I think “freedom” is being misapplied or maybe incorrectly defined. Freedom does not mean hedonism. Freedom does not mean the sybaritic pursuits, “Just do what you want.”<\/p>\n

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RUSH: One of the things here that the left does, that the Democrat Party does, is they pretend to be the party of freedom and liberation. You talk about marketing? What a masterful marketing trick they have pulled off here, with the notion that they are the party of freedom and liberation when, in fact, it\u2019s just the opposite. You see, the left\u2019s big lie is that government frees people and that only government can liberate people, when really it\u2019s just the opposite.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why the left is constantly looking for new groups that they can cast as victims. I mean, we acknowledge that the left seeks to victimize everybody. But many people think that it\u2019s so that they can provide benefits and grow the welfare state — and that\u2019s, in part, true. But there\u2019s another hideous reason for trying to put so many people into different groups of victims, and it is that those groups need protection. From whom? Mean-spirited, extremist, radical, right-wingers!<\/p>\n

Who are the groups all of a sudden or for all times who need protection? Gays, they need to be liberated by the government. Blacks, Hispanics, women, left-handed people, you name it. Anyone they can claim is being discriminated against and who must be protected by government, can then be liberated by government. So the Democrats set themselves up as these great liberators, when in fact they stigmatize people. They make them members of groups, they plug them into these groups, and they cease to exist as individuals.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Okay, this is crucial. Remember what we\u2019re about here: Informing people, educating people, while, at the same time, interesting everybody with a good show. We\u2019re trying to explain things, making the complex understandable. Now, a lot of things are happening in the world today, and we could fit them all in under one umbrella: Radical liberalism. Socialism. Communism. Whatever you want to call it, it\u2019s radical, and it is governing not just our country, but the world.<\/p>\n

Our country used to be an exception to this kind of governance. But now we have been ensnared by it, to the point that “freedom” is taking on a whole new meaning, incorrectly and dangerously so. I might say — and I know I\u2019m gonna make some people mad by saying this. But this very broad definition of freedom that is used to, for example, justify gay marriage, is being advanced not just by radical leftists but by libertarians as well, and even some conservatives.<\/p>\n

But the reason the whole issue of freedom is working against us… Ron Paul said something, and I\u2019ve mentioned this before, in his so-called farewell address to Congress when he left. This was his last speech before leaving the House of Representatives. He said he couldn\u2019t believe how difficult it was, or is, to sell freedom to people. Now, he meant freedom from government, self-reliance, responsibility, taking control of your own life and making the most of it as a concept.<\/p>\n