• Congrats to Rush Limbaugh on his fourth traditional marriage
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[url=http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/06/06/marriage/index.html]Source[/url] [release] Rush Limbaugh, October 6, 2009: Look, we found another Obama oddball. Obama's nominee to become commissioner for the equal opportunity employment commission is Chai Feldblum. She's an outspoken gay rights activist, Georgetown University law professor, and she has praised polygamy and contended that traditional marriage should not have privileged status. MSMDC News, yesterday: Conservative radio man Rush Limbaugh is taking a fourth stab at marriage with a weekend wedding to Kathryn Rogers, an events coordinator 26 years his junior, according to various reports. Limbaugh, 59, will reportedly marry the 33-year-old Rogers at his Palm Beach compound. . . . The childless Limbaugh's first two marriages were over by the time he rose to national prominence. His third wedding, to Marta Fitzgerald in 1994, was officiated by his friend, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. They divorced in 2004. Before beginning his courtship with Rogers in 2007, Limbaugh was romantically linked to then-CNN anchor Daryn Kagan. So as Newt Gingrich does while standing next to his third wife (who, as was true for Gingrich's second wife, was previously known as his "adulterous mistress"), Rush Limbaugh will now crusade for Traditional Marriage with his fourth wife (and counting) at his side. As is so often the case, the Traditional Marriage movement is led by people who discard their wives and get new, younger replacements the way most people change underwear. That's how so many Americans sit on their sofas next to their second and third spouses, with their step-children and half-siblings surrounding them, and explain -- without any recognition of the irony -- that they're against same-sex marriage because they believe the law should only recognize Traditional Marriages. And it's how Rush Limbaugh can hide from his followers that, by demanding state recognition for his fourth "marriage," he himself believes "that traditional marriage should not have privileged status." As usual, all of the actual rules of Traditional Marriage are casually discarded when it comes to the law (all that dreary, annoying stuff about "till death do us part" and "in sickness and in health" and "for as long as we both shall live") and the only one that's maintained is the one that is easy and cost-free for most Traditional Marriage proponents people to fulfill (the one about needing "a man and a woman"). As the gay Wired writer Steve Silberman wrote yesterday: "Between them, Gingrich and Limbaugh have had 7 marriages. And they want to abolish my one." On that note, The Boston Globe highlights how this Traditional Marriage hypocrisy is not merely vile in its own right, but breeds serious oppression for countless Americans, as it reports on the harrowing experience of an American citizen who has been barred from living in the U.S. with his foreign national same-sex spouse (as a result of the Defense of Marriage Act's ban on granting the same federal rights to same-sex couples which opposite-sex couples are entitled to receive, such as immigration rights). The latest "marriages" of Gingrich and Limbaugh (as well as their 5th, 6th, and 7th ones which, if history is any guide, will take place as soon as their most recent "wives" age a bit) will receive the full panoply of rights under American law, while -- as a result of this twisted, self-serving definition of "Traditional Marriage" -- gay Americans are denied all such rights even for their first marriages. UPDATE: As always happens when this issue is raised, there are several people in comments and elsewhere confusing the point. The issue here is not hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is when someone preaches "nobody should do X" and then proceeds themselves to do X -- such as preaching that "nobody should break the law or consume illegal drugs" and then proceeding to consume huge quantities of illegally obtained oxycontin. That's hypocrisy. That's not what this is. Hypocrisy occurs when there's a disparity between the actions one advocates and the actions one undertakes. Here, the disparity is between (a) what same-sex opponents such as Limbaugh claim they advocate (the law's recognition of only Traditional Marriages) and (b) what they actually advocate (having the law recognize completely untraditional marriages, such as Gingrich and Limbaugh's multiple, serial unions). They don't really advocate the law's recognition of Traditional Marriage, as they claim; rather, they only advocate that the law bar the untraditional marriages they don't want to enter into (same-sex marriages) while recognizing the ones they do (multiple, serial "marriages"). The point is that one cannot oppose same-sex marriage on the ground that the law should only recognize Traditional Marriages, while simultaneously demanding that the law recognize third, fourth and other multiple marriages following divorce: at least one cannot do so coherently.[/release] Does anyone else find it ironic that such a huge defender of the sanctity of marriage has had 4 weddings?
Wouldn't that make sense he likes marriage so much he gets married a bunch
[quote=Matthew 19:4-6; also Mk 10:7-9]Have you not read that at the beginning the Creator "made them male and female," and said, "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh"? So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore, what God has joined together, let no one separate.[/quote] Nice job following your own religion, jackass.
[QUOTE=Lambeth;22429962] Does anyone else find it ironic that such a huge defender of the sanctity of marriage has had 4 weddings?[/QUOTE] No, he likes traditional marriage so much he just can't stop doing it. [editline]01:44AM[/editline] Gummylamb beat me. :frown:
If he's so into traditional marriages? Why does he keep on getting divorces?
[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;22430132]If he's so into traditional marriages? Why does he keep on getting divorces?[/QUOTE] So he can have another, duh.
[QUOTE=Gummylamb;22430053]Wouldn't that make sense he likes marriage so much he gets married a bunch[/QUOTE] It doesn't seem so precious or holy when you do it so much.
[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;22430132]If he's so into traditional marriages? Why does he keep on getting divorces?[/QUOTE] Traditional divorces.
[QUOTE=Mexican;22430217]Traditional divorces.[/QUOTE] :psyboom:
Were his first three marriages to prescription drugs? BING BANG BONG WOOOO YEAH
I don't see why you hate this guy. He doesn't bash Obama, he just bashes the government in general for doing shitty jobs during some current events. The hot topic lately has been how the government has done shit all to clean it up. Sean Hannity is much worse. Obama this, Obama that, holy shit.
[QUOTE=Uberman77883;22431527]I don't see why you hate this guy. He doesn't bash Obama, he just bashes the government in general for doing shitty jobs during some current events. The hot topic lately has been how the government has done shit all to clean it up. Sean Hannity is much worse. Obama this, Obama that, holy shit.[/QUOTE] Because he is a hypocrite. And a Bill O'Reilly wannabe in my opinion.
[QUOTE=Uberman77883;22431527]Sean Hannity is much worse.[/QUOTE] I agree with you there, but that doesn't make him any less of an asshole and a hypocrite.
why hasn't he moved to cuba yet????
[QUOTE=Wii60;22432124]why hasn't he moved to cuba yet????[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;22431635]Because he is a hypocrite.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Wii60;22432124]why hasn't he moved to cuba yet????[/QUOTE] Why would he move to a country like Cuba? It's socialist and run by a man that is completely opposite of the type of person someone like Rush would want in charge.
[QUOTE=yawmwen;22432574]Why would he move to a country like Cuba? It's socialist and run by a man that is completely opposite of the type of person someone like Rush would want in charge.[/QUOTE] He said he would move to Costa Rica if the US went through with plans for Universal Healthcare. I have no clue how he thinks.
Who needs to get married 4 times let alone at all
[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;22431635]Because he is a hypocrite. And a Bill O'Reilly wannabe in my opinion.[/QUOTE] But how is he a hypocrite? I get that he got divorced, but his thing is marriage between 1 man and 1 woman. That's what he means by sanctity of marriage from what I have gathered. He gets divorces so he's still keeping that. I haven't heard Rush say anything about divorce. He would be a hypocrite if he was into polygamy or if he was actually gay. But gay marriage should be legalized.
I wouldn't say he's a hypocrite because of this.
[IMG]http://www.synthstuff.com/mt/archives/limbaughmug1.jpg[/IMG] Ladies. :pervert:
who would mate with this frog-mutant?
[QUOTE=thisispain;22433680]who would mate with this frog-mutant?[/QUOTE] Considering he has no kids, not even his last three wives would fuck him.
[QUOTE=Uberman77883;22431527]I don't see why you hate this guy.[/QUOTE] He is terrible in so many ways, but as an example, he said Michael J Fox was faking his Parkinson's disease in order to get more donations.
[QUOTE=Sgt.Sgt;22433359]But how is he a hypocrite?.[/QUOTE] In traditional Roman Catholic/Christian marriage, a divorce is non compliant to the ceremony. You would need to get an annulment from the priest. Which is hard enough, considering the bureaucracy they put it through.
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