{"id":16637,"date":"2012-02-07T17:27:41","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T17:27:41","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-02-07T17:27:41","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T17:27:41","slug":"catholic_church_decision_highlights_the_totalitarian_nature_of_the_obama_regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/02\/07\/catholic_church_decision_highlights_the_totalitarian_nature_of_the_obama_regime\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Church Decision Highlights the Totalitarian Nature of the Obama Regime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Folks, let me tell you something.  Don\u2019t be surprised if the regime reverses this.  I\u2019ve heard that they\u2019re rethinking it, that Obama might be rethinking this ban that he\u2019s put in effect on the Catholic Church and the schools and so forth.  And it could be true.  It could be true.  I mean even Muslim clerics have come out against this decision. <\/p>\n<p><BR\/>If Muslim clerics have come out against this decision, then Obama will hear that, much more than he\u2019ll hear Catholics being upset about it.  Upsetting Catholics was the point. But the point is there are a lot of Catholics that vote Democrat, 70 million some odd and this is obviously a bone that he\u2019s thrown to the base, it\u2019s part of Obamacare, and it goes back. It didn\u2019t get much attention at all when Sebelius, back in February 2009, when this was first discussed, it didn\u2019t get a whole lot of attention back then.  And what\u2019s happened since is that the churches now have until August of 2013 to get right with Obama\u2019s law.  So that\u2019s safely after the elections. <\/line><BR\/><a view=\"full\" href=\"http:\/\/newyork.cbslocal.com\/2012\/02\/06\/catholic-league-poised-to-go-to-war-with-obama-over-mandatory-birth-control-payments\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_58873\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ObamaCatholicChurch.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/line><\/p>\n<p>Back on January 20th Kathleen Sebelius announced that the Department of Health and Human Services had ruled in August that all government-funded service providers provide free contraceptive services, including morning after pills and surgical sterilizations.  When this thing first hit as part of Obamacare it barely caused a ripple outside the Catholic Church.  Now, in the same announcement back on January 20th she said she was gonna give the churches until August of 2013 to get right with the law, which is after the election.  So what\u2019s happened here is that an uproar has taken place in a clear bid to please the base, and it\u2019s actually more than just pleasing the base.  This whole decision by Obama as part of health care is who he is.  The government telling everybody, including churches and church education institutions, schools, what they can and can\u2019t do.  It is hideous, but it\u2019s right there in front of everybody\u2019s face for them to now see.  Every day it seems, every week, there are more and more examples of the totalitarian nature of this administration and what its true desires are.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Way back in February of 2009, at the height of the health care reform bill, Obama leaked the idea of rolling back the so-called conscience clause that the Bush administration had put in place. That was a regulation &#8220;allowing health-care workers to refuse to provide services based on moral objections&#8230;&#8221; In other words, a health care worker could not be forced to perform an abortion. A health care worker, with the conscience clause, could not be forced to pass out the morning-after abortion pill, the RU-486. &#8220;The Provider Refusal Rule was proposed by the Bush White House in August and enacted on January 20, the day President Barack Obama took office.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Obama backed down on that so as to get Obamacare through. Now he\u2019s going after it again. &#8220;A couple of weeks ago Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, announced that all health care providers that get money from the federal government must,&#8221; would have to, &#8220;provide conception and other birth control treatments, such as the morning-after pill, free.&#8221; It wasn\u2019t just that they had to provide it. They had to pay for it as well! It didn\u2019t matter what their moral objections. It didn\u2019t matter the conscience clause. It didn\u2019t matter what they wanted to do or not based on a religious belief. None of that mattered; the state was supreme. The state would triumph here.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_58863\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/PelosiMonopoly.jpg\"\/><BR\/>It didn\u2019t get a whole lot of attention back in 2009 at the time. But now because the Catholic Church is fighting it, it\u2019s back in the news. One quarter, 25% of the hospitals in this country, are Catholic hospitals. So this is a major policy change, and the Church says that it will not back down. Now, let\u2019s see. Did I just see something from CNN? I did, but I can\u2019t have it, so I don\u2019t know where it is about this. I don\u2019t want to speculate. There\u2019s some news about this that I\u2019m told is just breaking. Here\u2019s the Sebelius story, February 27, 2009: &#8220;White House Set to Reverse Health Care Conscience Clause &#8212; The Obama administration plans to reverse a regulation from late in the Bush administration allowing health-care workers to refuse to provide services based on moral objections, an official said Friday.&#8221;<\/line><\/p>\n<p>Remember, now, this is February 27th of 2009, about three years ago. Now, this document is what I was just talking about. And this has been Obama\u2019s plan since he took office. He just had to wait \u2019til Obamacare got rammed through and then he thought he could do it on the QT. But this Sebelius mandate is the beginning of the rollback here. Everything is now blowing up where this is concerned, because&#8230; It\u2019s like the old saying back in Nazi Germany: &#8220;When they came for X, I didn\u2019t do anything. When they came for Y, I didn\u2019t do anything. When they came for me, there was nobody left to stop \u2019em or to care about it.&#8221; It\u2019s the same thing happening here. All of these little things that happened, if they don\u2019t affect people, they say, &#8220;Ah, no big deal. I don\u2019t care about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But when finally an Obamacare edict hits something as big as the Catholic Church, and it fights back, then of course everybody finds out what\u2019s going on and has an opinion about it.<\/p>\n<p>And, in this sense, it\u2019s a good thing. <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. Bill Donohue from the Catholic League. This is last night on Channel 2 news, Channel 2 Eyeball News in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>DONOHUE: Never before&#8230; It\u2019s unprecedented American history, for the federal government to line up against the Roman Catholic Church. This is gonna be fought out with lawsuits, with court decisions &#8212; and, dare I say, maybe even in the streets.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Maybe in the streets. So now something has blown up in their faces. They probably expected it to. They relish this, I think. I think the people at the regime love this. I think they love it when Bill Donohue gets livid. I think they love it when the Catholics get mad. I think they love taunting their opponents. They think they love every aspect of this. Now, whether or not this finally awakens people above and beyond the Catholic Church? You know, even Muslim clerics have come out in opposition to this. And if this regime is gonna hear anything, it\u2019ll be them. Here is Bishop James McFadden. This is January 24th in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on an ABC News affiliate during an interview.<\/p>\n<p>MCFADDEN: In a totalitarian government, they would love our system. This is what Hitler and Mussolini and all of them tried to establish: A monolith, so all the children will be educated in one set of beliefs and one way of doing things.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, the Drive-Bys very concerned. The libs in the media are terribly upset about this. On Morning Joe today on MSNBC, TIME Magazine political analyst Mark Halperin had a discussion about this and they\u2019re worried. (paraphrased) &#8220;How\u2019s Obama gonna convince these idiot Catholics to understand what\u2019s good for \u2019em? Contraception is good for them! Abortion is good for them!&#8221; Listen to this discussion.<\/p>\n<p>HALPERIN: When you do something this complicated &#8212; when you have a policy that implicates religion and people\u2019s deepest feelings &#8212; you cannot leave it to the bureaucrats to just announce it. This is when a president, as politically dangerously as it is, must step forward and explain it himself.<\/p>\n<p>SCARBOROUGH: I think they were surprised, Mika, by this.<\/p>\n<p>BRZEZINSKI: M\u2019yeah.<\/p>\n<p>HALPERIN: Yeah. I think they had a blind spot here that they didn\u2019t realize how this would upset Catholics.<\/p>\n<p>BRZEZINSKI: Well and &#8212; and I don\u2019t think the way they have it laid out is the way it\u2019s being characterized by, mostly, those on the right.<\/p>\n<p>HALPERIN: It is being mischaracterized in some ways!<\/p>\n<p>BRZEZINSKI: It\u2019s being &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_58864\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ObamaRegime.jpg\"\/><BR\/>HALPERIN: But, again, there\u2019s a vacuum. The president got elected to be the leader. He needs to explain why he put his finger on the scale on the side that he has. Why is that the right policy for the country?<\/line><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: He can\u2019t say it that way. It\u2019s not the right policy for the country. It\u2019s an affront! It\u2019s the president of the United States telling Catholics he doesn\u2019t believe what they believe. And he doesn\u2019t respect their right to believe it. And that they are wrong. And that the state will have dominion over the Catholic Church. The state is going to have dominion over the rights and freedoms of the Democrat voter base. This is all about politics. It\u2019s all about keeping the Democrat voter base happy: The feminazis and the far left, who hate the Catholic Church. Obama is doing exactly what his base wants! AIDS activists have thrown condoms at Cardinal O\u2019Connor in the Church.<\/p>\n<p>The political leftist activists, whatever the issue, despise any authority. Any source authority. They despise anything that seeks in their mind to make a moral judgment. They can\u2019t stand it. They didn\u2019t get caught. What is this surprise? Halperin, you\u2019re better than this. To say the regime got caught? They were surprised? They wanted to do this since 2009! That\u2019s why they started off the Kathleen Sebelius story from February 2009 where they spell out what they want to do inside of Obamacare. This is something &#8212; a desire &#8212; they\u2019ve harbored for a long, long time. And now they\u2019re in the process of executing it. Now, it is being said that the regime is hinting that they may be having second thoughts on their conception mandate. Here\u2019s David Axelrod. He\u2019s on MSNBC this morning as well. And the co-host Mika Brzezinski asks, &#8220;Has the White House failed in its messaging on this?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>AXELROD: Secretary Sebelius included an exemption for churches and church employees. The question is now about these extended, affiliated, uh, institutions like hospitals and universities and there are tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of women who work in these hospitals and universities who are not Catholic &#8212; or they may be Catholic &#8212; but they use birth control. And the question is whether they\u2019re gonna have the same package that every other woman in the country has, the same right and access to basic preventive care.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: <a view=\"line\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=16631\">They don\u2019t care about the Constitution.<\/a> They\u2019re gonna change this country whether the people want it or not. And, as always, they\u2019re gonna focus on, &#8220;What about the people that don\u2019t like the Catholic Church?&#8221; The Catholic Church has separation of church and state, if it\u2019s an institution. (New Castrati impression) &#8220;Well, Mr. Limbaugh, they take federal money!&#8221; You know how hard it is not to take federal money in education anymore? This is all flat-out absurd. These excuses: &#8220;They take federal money.&#8221; We all know what\u2019s going on here. It\u2019s right in front of our faces. We just have to admit it.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Ferris, Fairfield, Connecticut. Great to have you, sir.  Hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Undeniable Truth of Life Number 24 dittos from the nut ball state.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Well, thank you, sir, very much.  I\u2019m happy that you remembered it.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Well, I\u2019d like to repeat it because it ties into the Catholic Church situation which is one of the topics of the day.  That feminism was formed so as to provide unattractive women free access to the mainstream of society.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Well, not free, but easier access.  Yes, Undeniable Truth of Life Number 24 authored by me, 1986.  This one\u2019s the one that established me as a great thinker.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_58870\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushGenericStool.jpg\"\/><BR\/>CALLER:  I stand corrected.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.  Yes.  Exactly right, it\u2019s borne out every day, it\u2019s just whether or not you got the courage to admit it.  Most people find it a very uncomfortable truth of life, which is what makes it a truthful truth.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  As are most of the truths today uncomfortable.  But here\u2019s how it ties into the discussion of what is happening in the Catholic Church, and I very highly respectfully disagree with your analysis that it will cost them votes.  It will not cost them votes.  You used the phrase a few minutes ago &#8220;idiot Catholics.&#8221;  And Rush, nothing could be closer to the truth.  And I\u2019m coming from a standpoint of a lifelong baptized Catholic as a child, lived with it, loved it, I learned it, and devoured it right up until recently when I became an Amish man.  So I understand what\u2019s going on in the Catholic Church, and I was taught &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Yeah, but, you know, it\u2019s not just Catholics that are gonna be impacted by this. Muslims are gonna be impacted by this.  Mormons are gonna be impacted.  Catholics are not the only ones who have such proscriptions on contraception and abortion.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Well, I speak for the Catholics only, Rush, because I\u2019ve never been a Muslim, nor a Jew.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Look, I know what you\u2019re saying.  Kind of like Hollywood liberals and liberal Jews, they\u2019ll sell Israel out in order to maintain primacy of liberalism.  So you think there are a lot of dumb Catholics who will vote against their own interests simply because they\u2019re liberals first, right?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Certainly.  But it goes deeper than that.  It goes to what you said recently about &#8212; you recently revealed the truth about teachers in the classrooms and that the truth is there are not any teachers anymore, with some notable exceptions.  There are indoctrinators, and there are people in front of the classroom whose job it is to dumb down the students and indoctrinate them.  And the Catholics who were affected by this ruling are in that group, and they have infiltrated the Catholic Church.  And again I speak from my own personal experience at activities during the 2008 election campaign at St. Bernard\u2019s Church in Vernon, Connecticut.  And in that reception, as I talked about the evils of Obama to that assembled group, I heard the infiltrators, let\u2019s call them people who are covered by Undeniable Truth of Life Number 24, the feminists, the militant feminists who had haircuts that looked a certain way, who stated that they were four square behind Obama regardless of the fact &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Right. It\u2019s the same as, there are there people, and I don\u2019t know if you are one of them, but there are people who believe that the priesthood has been infiltrated, compromised. Not taken over, but infiltrated by people who actually intend to do it harm. There are people that believe the Catholic Church as a target has been taken over or certainly infiltrated by people who are not Catholic, who are false Catholics with the express purpose of weakening the Church or ripping it apart.  I know there are a lot of people that believe this.  The practicing Catholics vote majority Republican.  Among Catholics who attend mass every week, which is required, McCain won 55-43, for example. <\/p>\n<p>Now, Catholics in name only will vote for Obama, but practicing Catholics, at least according to recent data, don\u2019t.  Well, they do, but they\u2019re a minority.  As I say for McCain, 55 to 43.  It\u2019s a touchy area.  I know exactly what you\u2019re thinking. It\u2019s not new, and there have been people who have been called weak or sellout, not just Catholics, but every other institution that has a moral code or a strict political code still has people who don\u2019t abide by it, don\u2019t want to abide by it, but want the title. They want to be able to say, &#8220;Yes, I\u2019m Catholic,&#8221; but they don\u2019t follow it, really.  This is gonna be true of any institution that there is.  (interruption)  Did who not anticipate this?  Did they not anticipate the flare-up here?  No, I think they clearly anticipated it.  I think they like it. <\/p>\n<p>My point is I think the regime loves irritating people like this.  I think they love upsetting the applecart, and I think they love this show and others having this kind of thing happen on it.  I think they relish it.  They love taunting.  They love taking on the traditions and the institutions.  That\u2019s why I think it\u2019s funny when Mark Halperin says, &#8220;Well, weren\u2019t prepared for this, wow, they really got caught here.&#8221;  They didn\u2019t get caught doing anything.  They\u2019re not surprised by this. They\u2019ve intended to do this since 2009.  But even so, even if they are surprised, it\u2019s not gonna stop \u2019em.  By definition, these people are authoritarians.  They don\u2019t care about opposition.  If they did, they wouldn\u2019t be doing 90% of what they\u2019re doing.  They don\u2019t care about the opposition.  I actually think they turn around, they enjoy it. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not even talking a political sense here.  Sure there is an element of this that is being done to placate, satisfy, energize the base, there\u2019s no question about it.  I\u2019m talking about simply in terms of who they are.  Yeah, there\u2019s no question he\u2019s unifying the base.  He\u2019s in trouble.  If they back down, they\u2019re gonna do it after Election Day, after Obama\u2019s reelected, but this time around they\u2019re not because he\u2019s not gonna be reelected again, theoretically.  There will be no accountability, no reason to back down.  I mean do the NAGs back down?  Does the ACLU ever back down?  Planned Parenthood ever back down?  They don\u2019t back down and look at all the opposition they get.  They enjoy it.  They love seeing conservatives get upset about this.  They just chuckle about it.  They get behind closed doors and they laugh about it.  Planned Parenthood\u2019s already running ads in support of a mandate out there.  They love it. <\/p>\n<p>Now, the Heritage Foundation with their blog, Morning Bell, the title today: &#8220;Obamacare Awakens a Sleeping Giant.&#8221; This is how it begins.  &#8220;It is a rare moment indeed when faith denominations of all stripes unite together in common cause, and it is rarer still when that cause is a political one, with a sole piece of legislation as its principal target. But when that law eviscerates the very foundation of religious liberty in America as protected under the First Amendment, it should not be surprising that Catholics and Jews, evangelical Christians, and mainline Lutherans alike find common cause in defense of their liberties. Such is the case with the firestorm of opposition to Obamacare and the Obama Administration\u00c2\u2019s attack on religious liberty.&#8221;  Here it is again for those of you just now getting up to speed on this. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Under a new Obamacare mandate issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the White House is mandating that virtually all religious employers, with the exception of churches, provide health care coverage for contraception &#8212; including abortion-inducing drugs &#8212; thereby trampling upon their constitutionally guaranteed free exercise of religion. And it is this mandate that has caused a vehement response in churches and synagogues across the country.&#8221; We played the sound bite of Bill Donohue, head of the Catholic League. He &#8220;warned that the nation\u2019s 70 million Catholics are ready to go to war with the [regime]\u2019s dictates, saying, &#8220;&#8216;maybe even in the streets.'&#8221; But Heritage points out here:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Catholic Church is not alone in its opposition to Obamacare\u00c2\u2019s onslaught against religious freedom. David Addington, The Heritage Foundation\u00c2\u2019s vice president of Domestic and Economic Policy, details the growing ranks of the faithful who say the [regime] has crossed a very dangerous line. The National Association of Evangelicals commented that &#8216;The HHS rules trample on our most cherished freedoms and set a dangerous precedent\u2019 and the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America stated, &#8216;In declining to expand the religious exemption within the healthcare reform law, the [regime]has disappointingly failed to respect the needs of religious organizations such as hospitals, social welfare organizations and more.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_58851\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ObamaHealthcareHomeSM.jpg\"\/><BR\/>Who cares what they\u2019re saying here, but the point is: They\u2019re united in this. That\u2019s why some people are hoping, thinking maybe a turning point has occurred here. Heritage does allude to the fact that the regime &#8220;is beginning to feel the pressure. On Sunday, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius authored an op-ed in USA Today defending the [regime]\u00c2\u2019s actions, claiming that a very narrow exemption to the mandate is evidence that the White House is &#8216;working to strike the right balance between respecting religious beliefs and increasing women\u2019s access to critical preventive health services.'&#8221; Well, you see right there that the regime, Sebelius-Obama, think that the Church and religious institutions are resulting in women being denied access to &#8220;critical preventive health services.&#8221;<\/line><\/p>\n<p>Which is an out-and-out lie. Being a Catholic is a choice. You don\u2019t have to be one. And if you are one, you can punt. The Catholic Church doesn\u2019t have anywhere near the power Obama does. The Catholic Church doesn\u2019t have near the power Obama wants! The Catholic Church can\u2019t deny anybody anything. It\u2019s something that the flock have to support and agree with. It\u2019s part of the rules. This is why I\u2019ve always marveled at the left\u2019s attempt to challenge religious orthodoxy. &#8220;The Church must conform! The Church must modernize. The Church must realize it\u2019s the 21st Century!&#8221; No! The Church is what it is. If people don\u2019t want to follow along, that\u2019s their business.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not the government\u2019s business to make any church or any religion &#8220;modernize,&#8221; quote, unquote, or get with the program or what have you. There is no permissible way the government can do this, according to our Constitution. But the Constitution doesn\u2019t matter here, which is really what this is all about. The Constitution doesn\u2019t matter to the regime. The regime is simply saying, &#8220;To hell with the Constitution. We\u2019re gonna implement this regardless what the Constitution says!&#8221; But if you don\u2019t like the Catholic Church view on abortion, if you don\u2019t like their view on contraception, don\u2019t be Catholic. If you don\u2019t like what the Methodist Church says or if you don\u2019t like what you hear in synagogue, don\u2019t go. It\u2019s as simple as that.<\/p>\n<p>But Obama wants you to believe that the Church has all these prisoners. Everybody who shows up for Mass is a prisoner. They\u2019re all wishing the Church would modernize and change. But the Church, being obstinate, won\u2019t. What they don\u2019t tell is people can get up and leave Mass. They can walk out of there if they don\u2019t like it. They don\u2019t have to sign up for the articles of faith. It\u2019s theology. This is no place for the government to be. They are taking what are moral and religious beliefs and turning them into totally nothing but political elements multiply. And when it becomes political, then the regime says they can force people to agree with or not agree with or what have you. This is an abomination. The Catholic Church is just the latest springboard. The target here is the Constitution of the United States, pure and simple.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Who\u2019s next on the phone? Dick in Kalamazoo, Michigan, I\u2019m glad you waited. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Thank you, Rush. You are truly the evangelist for the American way. I appreciate you taking my call. In your assessment of this imposition of a federal religion, you\u2019re exactly right. I\u2019m involved in it personally right now with one of the cabinet members &#8212; cabinet-level members &#8212; arguing this. But the other thing that has fallen aside in these two pieces of recent history with the court decision is an age-old support by the courts for communities to establish their own mores and standards. It\u2019s why communities were allowed not to have bars or strip clubs near churches and schools. It\u2019s why we don\u2019t have public sex. It\u2019s why we don\u2019t have nudity on billboards. California, taken as a community&#8230; And that used to be the ruling. If all the people in that community were affected and they spoke loudly, which is what a ballot does &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: In fact, I can give you the phrase that the court handed down: &#8220;Contemporary community standards.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: That\u2019s correct. And that was long upheld by the courts. And in this case it\u2019s a first reversal, and the domino effect could be just atrocious across the country. It\u2019s extraordinary. The court has always said that the people&#8230; I can\u2019t vote to say that Detroit can\u2019t do something, and the people in Sterling Heights can\u2019t dictate to people below Eight Mile, but if the whole community speaks loudly the courts have always observed it. And this is the first time they haven\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, that\u2019s true, but, of course, it\u2019s really not true any longer.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Correct.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Because now you\u2019ve got people like the Ninth &#8220;Circus&#8221; Court of Appeals saying that\u2019s unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, this is&#8230; You know, Rush, not to be reactionary, but when from the federal government down starts it to impose what equates to a state religion, isn\u2019t this an impeachable offense?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Ummm&#8230; (sigh)<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: If a certain murder, incest &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Let me put it to you this way.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_58885\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushRepealObamacare585.jpg\"\/><BR\/>CALLER: &#8212; that general mores held by all churches stand one way and the court says, &#8220;No, you\u2019re going to believe this&#8230;&#8221; This is the argument I\u2019m having with one of the secretaries, a cabinet member right now. I work for the federal government and one of the things they\u2019re imposing on us is this idea of celebrating these alternative lifestyles, and I have protested saying, &#8220;I won\u2019t bother anybody and I\u2019m not going to try evangelize them, but you can\u2019t use the force of government to make me celebrate these things.&#8221;<\/line><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I understand. As it relates to your question: &#8220;Is it impeachable?&#8221; In the instance that you\u2019ve sighted, even if it is, nobody\u2019s gonna pursue it. I don\u2019t know that what you\u2019ve described rises to the level of a high crime or misdemeanor. It\u2019s just unconstitutional. You can do unconstitutional things all day until somebody stops you. A court stops you. Congress stops you. You can do unconstitutional things. This is the whole point of a loyal opposition. Obama can violate the Constitution all day long, make recess appointments when there aren\u2019t any recesses. 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