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Contents:

• GLENN'S TAKE ON GAY MARRIAGE
• MEET RIAZ PATEL, THE GAY LIBERAL MLIM WHO IS GLENN BECK’S NEW BFF
• 3 GAY NSERVATIV REVEAL WHAT PRI MONTH IS REALLY ABOUT
• GLENN BECK’S CO-AUTHOR DECRI GAY PARENTG AS A ‘PROFOUND, DISGTG, VILE EVIL’
• WHERE IS GLENN BECK ON GAY MARRIAGE? 5 REASONS HE IS IN FAVOR
• GLENN BECK'S ANTI-GAY ARMY OF GOD
• GLENN BECK: GAY ACTIVIST GROUPS ‘ARE BEG NOTHG BUT A TERRORIST ANIZATN’
• BILL O'REILLY AND GLENN BECK: CHAMPNS OF GAY RIGHTS?
• GLENN BECK: GAY MARRIAGE NOT THREAT TO AMERI (VIDEO)

GLENN'S TAKE ON GAY MARRIAGE

Essentially, if the argument for gay marriage is equal rights for nsentg adults - are they gog to stand up and fight for the rights of three thirty year old women to marry a sixty-five year old guy? The unlikely metamorphosis of Glenn Beck om nutty right-wg nspiracy-monger to ratnal-seemg fenr of Amerin mocracy—and opponent of all thgs Donald Tmp—has crossed over to a new 53-year-old multimedia firebrand and self-scribed “tastrophist”—who shocked and possibly alienated his dwdlg fan-base three months ago by formg an anti-Tmp alliance wh lefty satirist Samantha Bee—is the days spendg qualy time wh a Pakistani-born, polilly liberal, gay, Mlim televisn Patel—who also happens to be the parent, wh his Brish-born hband, of an 11-month old girl nceived by artificial sematn and rried to term by a Mexin surrogate—is the Emmy-nomated prcipal of Axial Entertament, a succsful Los Angel-based productn pany rponsible for such realy TV shows as Lifetime’s How to Look Good Naked and VH1’s I Heart Nick Carter, among more than a dozen other ed to fear and loathe Beck’s divisive hype.

’”Patel, who attribut some of Beck’s wackier and more offensive statements to the pfalls of fillg three hours of unscripted rad every morng, said he ntu to disagree wh much of Beck’s rabble-rog rhetoric, yet se his surprisg new iend as willg to listen and maybe even stance, Beck has been a fenr of same-sex marriage at least sce December 2012, when he argued on his show, “The qutn is not whether gay people should be married or not, the qutn is why is the ernment volved our marriage”; Beck add that the legal solemnizatn of gay relatnships don’t “pick my pocket or break my leg. In one of his prev rnatns, he speculated that same-sex marriage would stroy sential social and relig stutns and evably lead to legalized also zied up to a rogu’ gallery of policians and pastors who promoted anti-LBGTQ polici and rhetoric, cludg Jam Dobson, John Hagee, Michele Bachmann and Sarah by December 2013, he was publicly supportg mpaign group GLAAD their opposn to Rsia’s official anti-gay bigotry. Patel, wearg tradnal Pakistani garb, was attendg a weddg Orlando, Fla., the weekend last June when ISIS-spired terrorist Omar Mateen, the Amerin-born son of Mlim Afghan parents, shot more than 100 revelers and killed 49 at the gay Orlando nightclub Pulse.

MEET RIAZ PATEL, THE GAY LIBERAL MLIM WHO IS GLENN BECK’S NEW BFF

Schwartz / ContributorLet's start wh Dave Rub, host of The Rub Report, who is well known for many thgs, the least of which is beg a gay nservative (much to the dismay and nfn of the "Rabow Mafia").

Here's what he said:They've separated human begs based on iology havg nothg to do wh who they tly Left has prented simply "beg gay" as an iologil stance that is patible wh and even spised by other (typilly right-leang) iologi. Klavan brought up an important pot:The loust and the crazit voic are [the most] Rabow Mafia typ are ma out to be the majory—the unanimo voice of anyone the LGBTQIA+ muny—which nveniently means they n weaponize cricism towards them by labelg crics as homophob.

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3 GAY NSERVATIV REVEAL WHAT PRI MONTH IS REALLY ABOUT

As we have noted before, Glenn Beck seems to have a rather strange unrstandg of what means to be “anti-gay” sce he brags that “I don’t know anybody who is anti-gay” while, at the same time, regularly associatg wh some of the Relig Right’s most vilently anti-gay activists. This apparent disnnect was perfectly illtrated today when we me across a vicly anti-gay lumn WorldNetDaily this weekend wrten by Joshua Charl, a rearch fellow at the Public Policy Instute at William Jsup Universy, who -thored Beck’s 2011 book, “The Origal Argument: The Feralists’ Case for the Constutn, Adapted for the 21st Century.

GLENN BECK’S CO-AUTHOR DECRI GAY PARENTG AS A ‘PROFOUND, DISGTG, VILE EVIL’

Now we accept as a matter of urse, bee homosexual people want their “own” children at the price of them beg oftentim permanently separated om one of their parents. But now, homosexuals want their own children (ironilly, the very thg they claim is not important to marriage they now claim as a new right), and to assert this right, they prive the new children of at least one of their parents. Glenn reviews the ttimony of two IRS whistleblowers — cludg one gay Democrat — who told the Hoe Oversight Commtee that Print Bin's Department of Jtice terfered their vtigatn to Hunter Bin.

WHERE IS GLENN BECK ON GAY MARRIAGE? 5 REASONS HE IS IN FAVOR

The re of his argument is for the simple prervatn of rights, rather than a ph to create new laws that affect both heterosexual and homosexual married prefers the Constutn to the Book of Mormon.

While he is normally alignment wh GOP valu — which typilly are of the nservative Christian flavor — should be no surprise that his stance on gay marriage will be more of a rult of polil science than church philosophy. While the Mormon fah do not ndone homosexualy nor perform homosexual marriage ceremoni, certaly don’t hold s polil members acuntable the same way that, say, the Catholic Church do. While the Catholic Church has taken a notably vol stance over the years on many social issu the public square — gay marriage and abortn gag the most steam recent months — the Mormon church is not as proment of a polil player for Beck’s ments to be supremely disarmg, given his church many may expect om polil mentators like Bill O’Reilly a distctive outlook on certa social issu by virtue of his beg Roman Catholic, that expectatn don’t necsarily translate for a polil Mormon like Beck.

”When O'Reilly asked aga whether gay marriage was a harm to the untry, Beck replied:“I believe that Thomas Jefferson said: ‘If neher breaks my leg nor picks my pocket what difference is to me?

GLENN BECK'S ANTI-GAY ARMY OF GOD

” Barton wrote that “General Washgton held a clear unrstandg of the l for orr and disciple, and as the origal Commanr--Chief, he was the first not only to forbid, but even to punish, homosexuals the ary.

” He further stated that “Based on the statut, legal mentari, and the wrgs of proment ary lears, is clear that any ia of homosexuals servg the ary was nsired wh repugnance; this is ntrovertible, wh no room for differg terpretatns.

David Barton of the Texas-based group Wallbuilrs said the Bible nmns not only homosexualy but also pal-gas tax, progrsive e tax, tate tax and mimum-wage laws. Michele Bachmann, R-Stillwater, the Legislature's chief proponent of the proposed amendment, led one ssn on s uncerta stat Mnota, while her hband, Christian therapist Marc Bachmann, led another on “the tth of the homosexual liftyle.

GLENN BECK: GAY ACTIVIST GROUPS ‘ARE BEG NOTHG BUT A TERRORIST ANIZATN’

On the November 22, 2006, edn of CNN's Larry Kg Live, Dobson offered the followg explanatn for what homosexualy: "[I]t has to do wh an inty crisis that occurs too early to remember , where a boy is born wh an attachment to his mother and she is everythg to him for about 18 months, and between 18 months and five years, he needs to tach om her and to reattach to his father. Durg the December 11, 2006, edn of Dobson's rad show, gut Michael Medved claimed that the children's film Happy Feet, an animated film about pengus livg Antarcti, ntas a “subtext, as there so often is, about homosexualy. ” In his September 2003 newsletter headled “Marriage on the Rop, ” which is still available on Foc on the Fay's South Ain webse, (PDF versn) Dobson wrote that “The homosexual activist movement, which has achieved virtually every goal and objective set out to acplish more than 50 years ago, is poised to admister a vastatg and potentially fatal blow to the tradnal fay.

The history of the gay and lbian movement is that s adherents quickly move the goal le as soon as one has been breached, revealg even more shockg and outrageo objectiv.

” A recent study nducted the Netherlands - a “progrsive” natn which gay marriage has been legal for several years - found that the average homosexual relatnship lasts only 1. ” In a November 8, 2007, Washgton Tim article (accsed via Nexis) on the Hoe passg the Employment Non-Discrimatn Act, which would prohib discrimatn agast employe on the basis of sexual orientatn, the paper reported that "[s]ome nservative lawmakers also say extendg special rights to homosexuals uld harm protectns granted to married upl.

BILL O'REILLY AND GLENN BECK: CHAMPNS OF GAY RIGHTS?

Gallagher: Polygamy is “better” than same-sex marriage, “wng the gay-marriage bate” parable to the fall of Communism, losg that bate “means losg Amerin civilizatn. ” In a July 14, 2003, Natnal Review lumn, Gallagher claimed that "[p]olygamy is not worse than gay marriage, is better, " bee "[a]t least polygamy, for all s ugly fects, is an attempt to secure stable mother-father fai for children. " Gallagher went on to argue that there has not been a “culture that has survived whout a reasonably functnal marriage system” and that losg the bate over gay marriage “means losg Amerin civilizatn.

” She also likened the battle over gay marriage to the battle agast munism, statg that "[w]ng the gay-marriage bate may be hard, but to those of who wnsed the fall of Communism, spair is excable and irrponsible. In her March 3, 2004, ttimony before the Senate's Submtee on the Constutn, Civil Rights, and Property Rights, Gallagher exprsed her support for an amendment to the Constutn that would ban gay marriage.

GLENN BECK: GAY MARRIAGE NOT THREAT TO AMERI (VIDEO)

” Back the '90s, when Andrew Sullivan first suggted gay upl had a thg or two to teach oppose-sex upl about our rigid sistence on sexual fily, public reactn was so negative that he rented (and to this day he gets mad if you even mentn he said ! But om the new-won nfince of his legally regnized gay marriage Massachetts, Eric Erbeldg is que fortable explag to The New York Tim: “Our le is you n play around bee, you know, you have to be practil.

” In another June 17, 2008, article, this time for Natnal Review Onle, Gallagher claimed that “many gay married upl reject 'heteronormative' assumptns about marriage. ” She aga ced Andrew Sullivan and Eric Erbeldg's ments about fily and monogamy and also ced those of David Benkof, “a gay lumnist who gave up sex wh men when he adopted a Torah-observant liftyle” who cricized the "[p]roblematic kds of relatnships that are 'monly found the LGBT muny but virtually unheard of among oppose-sex upl.