14 DAY TRIAL // Whatever the Supreme Court rules on Prop 8, the battle is lost for supporters of traditional marriage, conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh says in his latest radio show. Once the very notion of marriage has been changed, there is no winning.
At this point, gay marriage is “inevitable” because the concept of marriage no longer means what it once meant – and what was supposed to mean until the end of time, he argues: the union between man and woman.
By perverting language to allow modifiers next to the word “marriage” (like “traditional” or “gay”), the Democrats have won the war, he believes.
“I don't care what the Supreme Court does, this is now inevitable and it's inevitable because we lost the language on this,” Limbaugh says.
“I maintain to you that we lost the issue when we started allowing the word ‘marriage’ to be bastardized and redefined by simply adding words to it, because marriage is one thing, and it was not established on the basis of discrimination,” he continues.
“It wasn't established on the basis of denying people anything. ‘Marriage’ is not a tradition that a bunch of people concocted to be mean to other people with. But we allowed the left to have people believe that it was structured that way,” Limbaugh adds.
As he sees it, no one is denying the gays anything, so their claim that they want to be legally married to have the same benefits is only an excuse to fundamentally change the notion of marriage.
“Once you decide to modify the word ‘marriage,’ then the other side has won, or at least they're 90% of the way home. The best thing that ‘marriage’ had going for it was basically what they teach you the first day in law school: ‘If you hang a sign on a horse that says “cow,” it does not make it a cow,’ although today it might,” he says.
He also illustrates how absurd the idea of legal gay marriage is by drawing a parallel of him wanting to have the same benefits as the Obama family, and asking for a law that would change the notion of “family,” just so he could be “happy.”
Here is a full transcript of his impassioned speech, as well as an audio.