March 16, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show
06:35
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| Hello, Ty. | |
| Hi, Dennis. | |
| Thank you for taking my call. | |
| You know, and I'm going to bring this home full circle quickly. | |
| Whenever they legalize homosexual marriage, I looked at my boss and I said, he needs a rating left, this 65-year-old white guy. | |
| I said, you got what you wanted, but this is not where it stops. | |
| They will continue to move on because liberalism meets the next division tactic. | |
| And it wasn't six months down the road that we were worried about men walking into women's restrooms and hormonal therapy and all this other stuff. | |
| And it's amazing listening to this woman who I appreciate what she's done, but her clarity that transitions to schools and what's happening to kids, it's almost as amazing that she doesn't realize what homosexual marriage is doing to the kids and what it's doing to the institution of morals it's almost as amazing that she doesn't realize what homosexual marriage is | |
| Because she was very willing to argue against liberalism out of one side of her mouth, but then y'all got into a debate slightly on homosexual marriage and what it's done to the families and different things. | |
| Well, we didn't actually debate what it's done to families. | |
| This is a very complex question. | |
| Let me say a couple of things here, because I know so many gay couples, and I love them. | |
| And I don't love them because they're gay. | |
| I just happen to love them and they happen to be gay. | |
| And I don't love anybody because they are something. | |
| I love them because they're good. | |
| Anyway, when conservatives frame things in a way that doesn't comport with reality or much reality, we do ourselves a disservice. | |
| My argument was, and it's unanswerable, The argument, otherwise there was no argument for gay marriage, and I said it in Congress. | |
| I said it a long time ago. | |
| The argument is, and they said it, gender doesn't matter. | |
| There is no other argument. | |
| Love matters, gender doesn't. | |
| That was the entirety of the argument. | |
| Most Americans, or many Americans, bought it. | |
| Because love is a powerful word, and because gays can love each other just as much as heterosexuals can love each other. | |
| That's it. | |
| And that is what has happened. | |
| I also have the religious belief, as I said to her, that God wants marriage to be between a man and a woman. | |
| Okay? | |
| I acknowledge that's my belief. | |
| But my package of beliefs are what sustain me to resist the crushing of freedom in this country. | |
| I had an atheist, an Ayn Rand atheist, on my fireside chat. | |
| Wonderful man. | |
| We spoke for an hour and 20 minutes. | |
| My fireside chats, my weekly... | |
| Quite popular podcast, videocast, is always a half hour. | |
| It was an hour and 20 minutes with this man. | |
| And he acknowledged that he is an atheist who loves liberty. | |
| A lot of atheists are on the left and have contempt for liberty. | |
| But he's an atheist who loves liberty. | |
| And he acknowledged... | |
| That, overwhelmingly, it was religious Americans who are protecting liberty today. | |
| So, fine. | |
| So, before we dismiss religious Americans, we're a package. | |
| We come with a lot of beliefs. | |
| One is God wants us to be free. | |
| Another one is that God wants man and woman to marry. | |
| That is not a statement against a gay. | |
| It is no more a statement against a gay than it is a statement against single people. | |
| God wants people to marry. | |
| Is that anti-single? | |
| In the simpleton world of the left, that is what it means. | |
| It's single phobia. | |
| Do I hate singles because I believe people should marry? | |
| Isn't that idiotic? | |
| It doesn't matter. | |
| Idiocy is the norm today. | |
| But that's the way we should frame the argument. | |
| The kids of the couples I know are good kids. | |
| Just for the record. | |
| I don't know if that's the norm, but I don't know if it's the norm in general. | |
| It's tough to raise good kids. | |
| But of course, to be honest, the gays I know except one... | |
| For one case, are in fact conservative. | |
| All right, anyway, the topic was raised and I needed to address it. | |
| Okay, let's go to Roxanne in Los Angeles. | |
| Hello. | |
| Hello, how are you? | |
| I'm well, thank you. | |
| I have to thank you. | |
| When I first came to L.A. and started listening to you, I was just a total lefty liberal, and your thoughtful advice and clarity has helped me become the wildly conservative person I am now. | |
| But I just want to point out something that I have to disagree with you on. | |
| Barry's article hit home because my four kids have attended an L.A. private school that we chose precisely That they could have a religious community. | |
| And I don't think... | |
| It's easy to say that we're cowards, but I'm the den mother for over 100 closeted conservative parents at my school. | |
| This happened sort of slowly and then all at once. | |
| And they wield a cudgel that is so strong, and that is... | |
| The accusation of racism. | |
| And we aren't concerned about college. | |
| We're concerned about our sixth graders being bullied by teachers. | |
| I kid you not. | |
| Oh, I believe you. | |
| So, wait, wait. | |
| So, stay on with me. | |
| You've got to tell me where we differ. | |
| Because we're both agreeing about the problem. | |
| Anyway, I want to hear. | |
| And I'm very touched. |
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