Posted on 06/25/2015 1:59:57 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: I checked e-mail as I always do during the break. "Rush, why are you so sure" -- this is several e-mails -- "Why are you so sure that the court is going to legalize gay marriage nationally?" I had a bunch of people want me to explain why I made the prediction. After today, I don't know how anybody could doubt that's going to be the result, but let me give you a practical reason why. How many times have we joked on this program about Justice Kennedy being the subject of profiles in the Washington Post Style section or the New York Times Sunday magazine to influence him and so forth, and Chief Justice Roberts, too?
Well, this past Sunday, I don't know if it was the Sunday Times magazine or just the newspaper itself, but there was this fawning profile. I mean, you could have put this profile on your pancakes it was so syrupy about Justice Kennedy and his days in Sacramento. Now, I happened to be working in Sacramento at the same time Justice Kennedy was there. In fact, we both left Sacramento, he for Washington, me for New York, the same year. You know, when the Bork nomination was rejected, Anthony Kennedy got in there. Ginsberg was gonna get it but then they discovered he had blown the evil weed at some point in his earlier life, so he's disqualified.
So they found Justice Kennedy, McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, and in Sacramento McGeorge was a big deal. The dean at the time was a man named Gordon Schaber. And Gordon Schaber was a closeted -- said the New York Times. I did not know this, it didn't matter to me, but the New York Times reported Sunday he was a closeted gay man. And there were rumors at the time, everybody I think knew it, rumors of who his boyfriend was, partner.
Anyway, the New York Times story just ladled it on about how Gordon Schaber and everybody deeply sensitized Tony Kennedy to the gay life, deeply sensitized him to the problems of having to stay in the closet. It detailed many social evenings where Tony Kennedy was a guest at gay dinner parties and how everybody was just so pleasantly surprised at how accepting he was and nonjudgmental he was.
Now, I'm reporting this without the story right in front of me so I'm giving it to you paraphrased. That's pretty close to the tone of the piece. Well, folks, I mean, it's clear as a bell that that piece isn't gonna run if -- (laughing) -- if Kennedy is in the dissent on gay marriage. There's gonna be a revolt at the New York Times. I mean, there are just things that happen that give you an indication of what's coming down the pike. I would make the prediction even without the New York Times piece this past weekend, based on everybody's past ruling, just based on the inertia of where we are headed right now as a culture.
I'd be willing to see it, but somebody point out to me where the brakes are being applied here. I don't see anyplace. So why should the court -- that's not this court's job. This court has made it plain that it's going to survey public opinion and get right in line with it. Or what they think is public opinion. Here, let me give you just a little sample from the New York Times story on Justice Kennedy this past weekend.
"Now, as the Supreme Court prepares to rule on whether to grant a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, Justice Kennedy, a onetime altar boy, has emerged as an unlikely gay rights icon. At 78, he has advanced legal equality for gays more than any other American jurist, making his friend Mr. Schaber," the dean of McGeorge Law, who has since passed away, look prescient. Meaning Schaber is largely credited for convincing the Reagan administration to pick Tony Kennedy to sit on the court.
Justice Kennedy invited me to attend a Margaret Thatcher lecture with his family in New York one night, and I knew his son Justin for a while. They're fine folks. I don't want anybody to misunderstand what I'm saying here. I'm not saying anything more than what I'm saying. People want to know why do you think the ruling's gonna be what it is, it's staring at us, it's right in front of our face. You don't need to be prescient. All you have to be is be aware. I don't think there's any doubt.
I also don't think there's any doubt that they waited until the last two days of the term to release these two things. This is called flooding the zone. I don't doubt that there's strategy in this.
They will do it because it’s bible prophecy.
Mark my words.Sharia law will be next. It will be as 0bama intended.
Mark my words.Sharia law will be next. It will be as 0bama intended.
The one I am worried about is the redistricting. That one must be a win for us. The Oklahoma one is probably the least important and the gay marriage is a loss for us. I still can’t believe how fast our country changed in 20 years. Stunning.
It is the end of freedom of religion and freedom of association.
I can’t even get my head around it what has happened in 20 years, and I can’t imagine at all what lies in wait in the next 20.
Humpty Dumbty Roberts now has a SCOTUS precedent to use in word redefinition situations.
It's settled law now.....
Pandora’s box is going to open further up, the nuts are going to be in control.
It’ll be 6-3 in favor of gay marriage. Roberts got Kennedy to provide him cover for his SCOTUSCare decision and Roberts will return the favor by supporting Kennedy on his gay-marriage decision.
Kennedy, the raving liberal ‘moderate’.
They will do it because it’s bible prophecy.
Yep. I don’t think it matters anymore, this is not our world to worry about. We need to keep our eyes on the prize, which is eternal life through Jesus Christ. I’m sure at some point people will regret the decisions they made in their lives, when it’s way too late.
I guess they also will legalize illegal “immigrants”. Certainly they just “have to” interpret all these people hanging around here illegally in a way that makes them legal and makes all the benefits work out for them.
The Founding Fathers, Constitution, Congress, etc “couldn’t have intended” there be a big mess to clean up so anyone found inside this (former) country can just stay.
After all, it only makes sense. Right?
Legalize it? Heck at this rate they will make it mandatory.
Every now and then I try and think about how much worse the next 20 could get and it boggles my mind as I can’t even fathom it getting worse then it is not. I imagine that we will be paying at least 50 percent in taxes and that is the low rate. Everything will be “free” but the requirements to get the “free” will be stringent that most won’t benefit. Social Security will be pretty much over so elderly will be out in the streets because the money they did invest is worth a penny so no money is coming in for them. Robots have taken over the majority of entry level jobs so only a very small amount of people are able to work. It is too frightening to even fathom what it will be like. I do know one thing, they will be monitoring what we eat, how fast we drive and a host of other things that we barely are free to do now.
Roberts has long worked FOR the gay agenda on legal issues.
SCOTUS will do whatever they want and you are obliged at the point of a gun to F-ING FALL IN LINE SLAVE!!!
Yep, it will mark the moment I go from praying for my country, to praying against it.
Faggot nation. Ready for the ash-heap.
18 The wrath of Godo is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.p 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made,q so that people are without excuse.r
21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.s 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became foolst 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for imagesu made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.
24 Therefore God gave them overv in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.w 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie,x and worshiped and served created thingsy rather than the Creator—who is forever praised.z Amen.a
26 Because of this, God gave them overb to shameful lusts.c Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.d 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.e
28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them overf to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips,g 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;h 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love,i no mercy.
“I imagine that we will be paying at least 50 percent in taxes and that is the low rate”
I live in New York City and my all-in tax rate is already 50 percent of my income.
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