Limbaugh desperately trying to explain Roberts' pro-bono work for gays

[kentuck]

or a gay-rights group. You see, he worked for one of the largest firms and he didn't really choose to do it himself...uh..uh..uh...And now the NYTimes is investigating the adoption of his children! Uh...uh...uh...

[TheDebbieDee]

1. Roberts' children are adopted? I didn't know that.

[Connie_Corleone]

6. Adopted from Latin America.

[zbdent]

8. The boy's from Brazil?

That would explain his blond hair and the penchant for the short pants (lederhosen . . .)

[Coventina]

14. ROFL!!!!!

nice!

[myrna minx]

17. You owe me a keyboard.

:7

[zbdent]

20. Okay -

Close your eyes, count to 3, and open them.

There! I've replaced your keyboard with an exact duplicate.

Now, one that's not ruined, well, that might take a little more time . . .

[Cats Against Frist]

19. ????

Did they like scour Latin America for the 2 percent of blondes, or something? I know that people in Latin America have blonde hair, sometimes -- but that's just weird.

[Catfight]

2. How do you even listen to him? He sucks. nt

[OrlandoGator]

3. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

It's important to know your enemy.

[kentuck]

4. It is in very small segments....

Believe me! And it's usually when I'm driving...

[charlie]

5. And thousands of ditto monkeys

have their fingers perched over the last button in the phone number, so when Rush finally makes up his fucking mind they'll be first to call in with "you're SOOO right, Rush!"

[SheepyMcSheepster]

7. he also said he wasn't sure if the grand canyon was formed by erosion

i hate is fake ass vague dismal of science so he can attempt to pander to the non-reality based religouis right.

[Mike Daniels]

9. Speaking of religious right

How do they reconcile their "sanctity of marriage" crap in light of Rushbo's less than impressive record. Was the last belly flop his 3rd or 4th time around the block?

[SheepyMcSheepster]

10. i believe it was his 3rd

he is working on his 4th? i am not sure if him and daryn kagan have been married yet?

[bryant69]

11. One important think Limbaugh said - Being Gay isn't a Choice

Which was an unusual thing for him to say - he said that he doesn't know anyone who believes being Gay is a choice. But you could hear him flailing around.

Rush Limbaugh is from New York City and Palm Beach Florida (if memory serves). His values are not the same as the Fundies - as much as he tries to fake it.

On the other hand I seriously doubt that segment will show up at his website, and his words will be quickly forgotten.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politcialcomment.blogspot.com

[Terran]

12. He actually said that??

He must not have reviewed his script or something, because it's an essential right-wing belief that gay people choose to be gay. If you believe they don't, then you pretty much have to agree that they deserve legal protections against discrimination. But then, Rush isn't a quarter as smart as he makes himself out to be, so I'm not surprised he screwed that up.

On the subject of Roberts, he could well be right. In a big law firm where the firm makes sure everyone does some pro bono work, you probably don't get to choose what you do, the partners assign it to you. But interestingly, I think this is the flip side of his having a US Solicitor General. In that position he was also assigned to argue points of law, he wasn't choosig them because he agreed with them. This is how lawyers generally have to work: you argue law, not personal belief or ideology. So while I can well believe the man doesn't personally support gay rights, I can equally reserve judgment on the positions he argued as a Solicitor General.

[Ian David]

13. Catholic law forbids sexually impotent people from marrying (edited)

Edited for accuracy.

Because marriage = 1 Woman + 1 Man (with a functional penis).

Documentary spotlights Catholic denial of paraplegic weddings

Flavia Fontes was talking on the phone when a headline in a small Brazilian
newspaper caught her eye:A paraplegic man was forbidden to get married by the
Roman Catholic Church because he was impotent. Even though Fontes, a Brazilian
filmmaker living in New York, was already immersed in another project, she
decided she needed to capture Hedir Antonio de Brito's story. The result is
"Forbidden Wedding," which premieres on the Sundance Channel at 9 p.m. EST
Monday.

De Brito was two weeks away from marrying Elzimar de Lourdes Serafim, a widow,
in August 1996, when he received a shocking letter from the local bishop
denying their application for a marriage certificate. According to canon law,
any man or woman who is impotent and unable to have intercourse cannot get
married. De Brito wrote a letter to Pope John Paul II to appeal the bishop's
decision, but didn't get a response.

<snip>
Their friendship and mutual acceptance - she had no education, he was in a
wheelchair - soon developed into romance and they decided to marry. Wedding
plans were well underway when a local priest asked de Brito during premarital
counseling if he was impotent and de Brito answered him honestly. The priest
told de Brito he couldn't marry the couple, which the bishop's letter
confirmed.

"If (de Brito) had left the issue in doubt, it wouldn't have been a problem,"
said the Rev. Dr. Bernard Olszewski, a canon law expert and vice president for
academic affairs at Hilbert University in Hamburg, N.Y. "Unfortunately, he gave
full disclosure. In a pastoral sense, it would have been better for the priest
to have a 'don't ask, don't tell' policy."

More:
http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=77128

[NYCGirl]

15. So, if you're supposed to remain celibate until marriage, how do you know

you're infertile?

[Ian David]

18. Sorry, I stand corrected. It is impotent, not infertile ones who can't wed

Because marriage = 1 Woman + 1 Man (with a functional penis).

Documentary spotlights Catholic denial of paraplegic weddings

Flavia Fontes was talking on the phone when a headline in a small Brazilian
newspaper caught her eye:A paraplegic man was forbidden to get married by the
Roman Catholic Church because he was impotent. Even though Fontes, a Brazilian
filmmaker living in New York, was already immersed in another project, she
decided she needed to capture Hedir Antonio de Brito's story. The result is
"Forbidden Wedding," which premieres on the Sundance Channel at 9 p.m. EST
Monday.

De Brito was two weeks away from marrying Elzimar de Lourdes Serafim, a widow,
in August 1996, when he received a shocking letter from the local bishop
denying their application for a marriage certificate. According to canon law,
any man or woman who is impotent and unable to have intercourse cannot get
married. De Brito wrote a letter to Pope John Paul II to appeal the bishop's
decision, but didn't get a response.

<snip>
Their friendship and mutual acceptance - she had no education, he was in a
wheelchair - soon developed into romance and they decided to marry. Wedding
plans were well underway when a local priest asked de Brito during premarital
counseling if he was impotent and de Brito answered him honestly. The priest
told de Brito he couldn't marry the couple, which the bishop's letter
confirmed.

"If (de Brito) had left the issue in doubt, it wouldn't have been a problem,"
said the Rev. Dr. Bernard Olszewski, a canon law expert and vice president for
academic affairs at Hilbert University in Hamburg, N.Y. "Unfortunately, he gave
full disclosure. In a pastoral sense, it would have been better for the priest
to have a 'don't ask, don't tell' policy."

More:
http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=77128

[brentspeak]

16. Al Franken did a funny impersonation of a gay Rush Limbaugh today

Franken opined that people who get divorced 3 times should not be allowed to marry ever again, unless that 4th marriage happens to be a gay one. So he impersonated Rush (who's on his 3rd marriage) explaining how he'd get around that: "Folks, I've decided that, yes, I am gay."

[Flying Dream Blues]

21. Down. In. Flames. bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Excellence in Assholery.