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They are gone after just as viciously as somebody who is straight and who opposes it. There\u2019s some bunch of wackos that\u2019s trying to destroy Mary Cheney<\/a>, Dick Cheney\u2019s daughter, who is a lesbian. She is not for this. She won\u2019t come out for it. Some bunch of goons have set up a website “Dear Mary” where they\u2019re trying to force her in public to take a stand on this and force her dad to do it. No less than Tammy Bruce, the former NAG chairman of Los Angeles. Well, National Association of Gals, National Organization for Women. <\/line>Even she is outraged, and she\u2019s saying, [paraphrased] “You people in this gay Mafia are acting like all gay people are monolists and monolithic, and we all want the same thing — and we don\u2019t. Some of us don\u2019t think gay marriage is good. Some of us don\u2019t think it\u2019s going to help us. Some of us don\u2019t think it\u2019s going to do anybody any good,” and those gay community members who don\u2019t join the gay marriage movement are being just as savaged as anybody else who\u2019s not. [Studio interruption] There is. Of course, there\u2019s a strategy behind this. You think — and you\u2019re going to laugh. You think that Justin Timberlake\/Janet Jackson thing was just accidental, or was it part of a trend? <\/line>I told you people this is coming for 15 years. We could see it, and it\u2019s only getting worse. And it\u2019s only getting worse because the people who oppose it are categorized as a bunch of fundamentalist right-wing. What do you think Mel Gibson\u2019s movie is so opposed for? Why do you think so many people are so upset about Mel Gibson\u2019s movie? We\u2019ve had all kinds of Biblical movies in the past and we have had movies all throughout our history where directors and artists have taken license with the facts in order to present their art. <\/line><\/p>\n

<\/a> Well, all the sudden he\u2019s not allowed to do that? Why is Mel Gibson not allowed to do it? I\u2019ll tell you why. Because Jesus Christ portrayed accurately is going to shore up the Christian movement in this country. There are too many people in this country — this is going to surprise you. I want to frame this the right way. There are more people than you would care to think…[pause]. Let me take a break. I\u2019ve got to think of the right way to phrase this because it\u2019s too important to just hodgepodge say it and wander in search for a thought while trying to see it at the same time, but there\u2019s a specific reason why Gibson is being blamed. <\/line>It\u2019s more complicated and more complex than just, “Well, it\u2019s about Christ.” It\u2019s more complicated than that. You have to understand what Christ and Christianity represent to a whole slew of people in this country, and they would just as soon be done with it. Anything that comes along and reinforces people\u2019s belief in morality, essentially, has got to be dealt with savagely. You can\u2019t have that. The whole culture movement, the whole cultural deterioration has been about getting rid of morality. It\u2019s about getting rid of moral judgmentalism. <\/line>It\u2019s about getting rid of the black-and-white areas of right and wrong. It\u2019s about muddying everything up and graying everything up so there is no concept of right and wrong other than how individuals define it. And here comes Gibson\u2019s movie, and Gibson\u2019s movie is unifying a whole bunch of people who stand in direct opposition to the direction the people destroying the culture are trying to take us. It\u2019s become a huge obstacle. It\u2019s not just about religion. Although that\u2019s probably either the foundation or the umbrella, depending on how you want to look at it. <\/line>(COMMERCIAL BREAK 12:48 PM EST)<\/emphasize><\/strong><\/line><\/p>\n

Here: Rich Lowry says it pretty well today, National Review Online<\/a>. He said, “America is in the midst of a new Great Awakening. It\u2019s the mainstream media, prompted by excitement…” but it\u2019s not just the media. It\u2019s all of leftists — and, by the way, folks, this whole assault on marriage. This whole assault on it is just a microcosm of where the left will take us if nobody stops them in this country. This is just one small area of the culture, but you can look in a whole lot of other areas of the culture that have deteriorated, and if left unchecked that\u2019s where the left will take us. And I keep saying that it\u2019s got its benefits happening in an election year. <\/line>I\u2019ll guarantee you the last thing the Democrats wanted was for Bush to start riling people up with this amendment. The Democrats have been praying Bush wouldn\u2019t be able to coalesce his base. I saw Bush\u2019s speech last night. He\u2019s not going to have any trouble coalescing the base. Did you watch the speech last night? I watched the speech last night. He\u2019s not going to have any trouble coalescing the base, and he didn\u2019t even talk about this last night. He talked about our future. He talked about the future we face at war and the people who want to destroy us and it. <\/line>And the president maybe is a victim of something. He\u2019s a victim of success, because more and more people are removing the War on Terror down their priority list. When they\u2019re asked by reporters, “What\u2019s the most important thing facing the country?” many people are moving the war on terror down to position two or three instead of #1 because they think the threat\u2019s been dealt with Saddam\u2019s been captured Osama hasn\u2019t done anything, and this frees people up to start thinking about their own…you know, social societal interests that come after considering you\u2019re free and secure.<\/line><\/p>\n

“Okay, my freedom\u2019s secured. I can do what I want to do. Now I want my health care! Give it to me!” And so who\u2019s talking about doing that? That\u2019s where the campaign will go. This is one of the theories. But I heard the president speak last night and he started talking about the successes of this administration and the philosophy of this administration, and I\u2019ll tell you what. I got all, I tell you what, folks. I got all charged up. I did. I said, “Bring it on! Bring it!” [Interruption] What do you mean? I did. I got enthused. My passion was kicked back up. This is going to be good. But he\u2019s not going to have any trouble coalescing the base especially with this marriage amendment, and, you know, Lowry. <\/line>Let me get back to what he says here very quickly before my time expires here in this break, He said, “America is in the midst of a new Great Awakening. It\u2019s the mainstream media, prompted by excitement over (Mel Gibson\u2019s movie) waking up to the fact that the country still has an enormous block of orthodox Christians.” I don\u2019t think it\u2019s just the media although it\u2019s certainly they\u2019re included, but there has been you cannot deny. Christianity, Catholicism, Protestantism, all have been fair game. <\/line>You can laugh and make fun of any aspect of that religion you want. You can poke fun at these people. You\u2019re supposed to poke fun at these people. Can\u2019t make fun of any other religion. Got to be dutifully respectful and show the proper decorum. Christianity, you can stomp on it; you can trash it; you can make fun of the people who believe in it. You can clich?, characterize them and that\u2019s been done. And here comes this movie and it\u2019s the worst thing that could happen to the people who want to destroy the culture. And I think there are a lot of leftists in this country actually thought that they had dispatched with the Christian right. They had successfully gotten rid of Pat Robertson and Falwell and characterized them as a bunch of fluke kooks, and then here comes Mel\u2019s movie. And they\u2019re reminded just how many Christians there are in this country. Actually, goes deeper than that, but I think you get the drift, folks. <\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/emphasize><\/strong><\/line><\/p>\n

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