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RUSH: So I checked the e-mail during the break, and I can tell you I need to further explain why I think the court decision leads to polygamy. And, by the way, I could easily do that by simply reading to you some blog posts that I printed out from people that are already gonna agitate for it, that they want it, and they think they know that this opens the door for it. Look, folks, you can think all you want, but there\u2019s no legal basis to stop it now. There is no intellectually honest way to distinguish the reasoning on gay marriage from applying the same reasoning to supporting polygamy.<\/p>\n

Because it was all rooted in self-esteem and dignity and not being denied things that make you happy. The Supreme Court decision on marriage was not about any particular number of people in a relationship. It did not assume, in other words, that marriage is of two people. It did not accept that limit, in other words. That limit is not specifically there. They\u2019ve rewritten what marriage is now, is the point here, folks. Marriage was what it was as ordained from the ancient biblical texts. <\/p>\n

Want me to read it to you from Genesis? Maybe that would help. Maybe this will help. Actually, well, Genesis does. It\u2019s Genesis 2:23-24: A sacred union between one man and one woman. It\u2019s also the New Testament. Jesus Christ reaffirms the biblical definition of marriage. Jesus said, “Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh; so no longer two, they\u2019re one. What, therefore, God has joined together, let no man separate.” <\/p>\n

Matthew chapter 19, verses 4 through 6. I didn\u2019t write it, so don\u2019t get mad at me. But there it is. It\u2019s in Genesis and the New Testament as well. But it\u2019s been rewritten now, and it\u2019s been written not under any sort of constitutional purview but rather some people out there that were denied something and it\u2019s not right. A lot of people had something and those people didn\u2019t and then those people want it so we think they should have it. Their self-esteem and their dignity is tied up into it. <\/line><\/p>\n

Well, if now a guy comes along and says, “I want two wives,” fine. I mean, my only point is the ruling in this case does not give anybody the right to tell \u2019em “no.” Marriage has been redefined, folks. It\u2019s not been “expanded.” It has been redefined. Marriage had a specific definition. Words mean things. And now it\u2019s become something entirely different by virtue of the Supreme Court. You wait. There will be attempts to expand on this in ways that you can\u2019t even conjure. <\/p>\n

The other thing in the e-mails from people, “What do you mean, this is happiness and self-esteem?” I think a lot of this — I think a lot of liberalism, folks — is rooted in the misery and unhappiness of being in a minority. And I\u2019m not… Take any minority you want — could be a numerical minority, could be a behavioral minority — and along with that unhappiness is a resentment of the majority, a resentment or an envy of the majority. So the motivating mechanism here is to be what the majority is, to have what the majority has, simply because it\u2019s not fair that some people have it and some people don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

So you can take something as specific and lofty and meaningful as marriage and reduce it to a thing or a benefit that some people get and some people don\u2019t. And that isn\u2019t fair, and it\u2019s not democratic. “How can you have that in a country like America?” Okay, so the reason the quest for happiness will never be met is because the reason for the happiness — the reason for the misery, the self-loathing, whatever you want to call it — the void that people have, is they mistaken we think that getting what the majority has is gonna make \u2019em happy, and they\u2019re gonna find out that it doesn\u2019t. <\/p>\n

And it won\u2019t. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s why we keep coming back for more. It\u2019s why nothing is ever enough. No matter how much of their demands are met, it\u2019s never enough. I have noticed this my entire adult life analyzing these things. It\u2019s just never enough. And the reason it\u2019s never enough is because the whole reason why or the… There\u2019s a misunderstanding of why there\u2019s misery in the first place, why there\u2019s unhappiness in the first place. You can reduce and say, “The grass is greener. People think it\u2019s happier on the other side of the fence.”<\/p>\n

They find out when they get there it isn\u2019t. All this is wrapped up in this, and in the process it has become political and the majority is attacked vividly, belligerently and often. Because it is felt that this happiness is being actively denied people in the minority because the people in the majority are reason. They\u2019re racist, they\u2019re sexist, whatever. It\u2019s their fault, they\u2019re denying all this to us. So the quest is to take it away from them or to become what they are and water down what they are. <\/p>\n

But that never results in satisfaction.<\/line><\/p>\n

It just never does. <\/p>\n

So the continued effort here at happiness\/contentment will continue to evade because the real reason for it\u2019s not even being addressed. I mean, the unhappiness born of envy and resentment is never, ever mollified. That\u2019s why all of the great philosophers have warned people, “Do not act on vengeance, do not act on envy, \u2019cause you\u2019re not gonna like what you get. It\u2019s not gonna give you the happiness you thought.” <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Here\u2019s Mike in Allen, Michigan, as we start on the phones. Great to have you, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. Thank you for taking my call.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: It\u2019s a great honor. My point is, I read a op-ed that Allen West wrote on the 27th about ruling on the gay marriage, now that it opens up to other issues with some states for, like, concealed carry. My concealed carry permit here in Michigan is now valid in all 50 states, including Washington, New York City, Chicago, Illinois, everywhere now.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I read that whole thing. I saw that story last week. It was on Allen West\u2019s blog, and it was one of these stories, “Hey, you people on the left? You better be careful what you wish for,” one of those deals. The point was made, “Okay, since the Supreme Court said that since gay marriage has been recognized in 36 states, the other 14 have to recognize it, too.” The point on the blog was, “Well, hey, I mean, the same thing could be true now the concealed carry permits.<\/p>\n

“If they\u2019re legal in one state or some states, they have to be legal in others.” This was the theory, the point made. Because the way the court reasoned gay marriage, it can supply the same thing to concealed carry laws. I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s true. But to me, it\u2019s no mollification. It doesn\u2019t mollify me at all, for the way the Constitution\u2019s been bastardized here, which it has been. The Constitution\u2019s taken a huge hit here. Just because it may allow things which anger the left here or there, that\u2019s not just… That\u2019s my whole point. That doesn\u2019t make me happy, just \u2019cause the left might have to deal with a concealed carry permit. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: About that “polygamy is inevitable” thing. A lot of people are writing about this. A lot of blog posts are theorizing and philosophizing about it. A lot of activists in the politically active gay community are talked about it as well. Here\u2019s a reading from the chief justice, his dissent on the gay marriage case. “Although the majority randomly inserts the adjective ‘two\u2019 in various places, it offers no reason at all why the two-person element of the core definition of marriage may be preserved while the man-woman element may not.<\/p>\n

“Indeed, from the standpoint of history and tradition, a leap from opposite-sex marriage to same-sex marriage is much greater than one from a two-person union to plural unions, which have deep roots in some cultures around the world. If the majority [i.e. Kennedy, et. Al.] is willing to take the big leap, it is hard to see how it can say no to the shorter one. It is striking how much of the majority\u2019s reasoning would apply with equal force to the claim of a fundamental right to plural marriage.”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s from the Chief Justice John Roberts. It\u2019s apparently a day where he felt like actually being a judge. So we have here the chief justice warning about polygamy just as… You remember the Texas sodomy law? When was that? That was back in 2003. So 12 years ago the Supreme Court overturned a Texas law on sodomy. Texas prohibited it, and the Supreme Court said, “You can\u2019t do that, you bunch of backward hayseeds!”<\/p>\n

It prompted Justice Scalia to openly predict that the court would someday down the road very soon be hearing a case on the constitutionality of homosexual marriage and any number of things, and he turned out to be exactly right. So just as Scalia warned gay marriage was coming, as a result of overturning Texas\u2019 anti-sodomy law, Chief Justice Roberts is warning that polygamy is right around the corner because of the way this decision was written by Anthony Kennedy.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s gonna be the argument against it? <\/p>\n

Let\u2019s say that you\u2019re worried about this. You don\u2019t think that marriage should be anything about two people. It could be interracial, now it can be same sex, but it shouldn\u2019t be more than two people. You understand, folks, that that whole definition\u2019s been thrown out now? The whole concept of marriage and what it was has been tossed out now, and it\u2019s a brave new world and an entirely new definition for all intents and purposes was written. Ad the way it\u2019s been written as the chief justice says, you can\u2019t find a way to not permit polygamy if somebody brings this case before this court.<\/p>\n

And he predicts that that will happen. Somebody\u2019s gonna bring this case up here. Now, some people have claimed that we\u2019ll never have polygamy because if you let a guy marry two women, then that\u2019s placing women in a subservient role; that would be wrong. “I mean, let one guy have control over two women? You can\u2019t do that!” That\u2019s not gonna hold water. But that argument would take place under the tenets of feminism. You\u2019d somehow discriminate against women.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019re not gonna have two women in a marriage to one guy. No way, Jose! We\u2019re not permitting that.” Well, what if it\u2019s two women who want to get married to one guy? I mean, feminism argument there doesn\u2019t exist. It\u2019s out the window. In fact, it may even be amplified. What happens if a woman wants to marry four guys? Let\u2019s say that the Shawskank prison guard up there wanted to marry those two prisoners and two others after this. I know you\u2019re saying, “No, no, no. Marriage is two people. You can\u2019t.” <\/p>\n

Folks, you\u2019ve gotta understand here: Supreme Court decisions create a lot of things. Precedents, new rules. Now, animals? The one thing about animals is that even though a woman in the UK did marry her dog, animals cannot give consent, so that\u2019s not a legitimate thing. An animal can\u2019t consent to a marriage to its master. An animal doesn\u2019t know… I\u2019m thinking that the line would be drawn there. Actually, who the hell knows anymore. But there\u2019s nothing to limit the number of people in a marriage with this ruling, with the dignity and self-esteem and benefits. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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