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BILL O’REILLY’S GAY-MARRIAGE EVOLUTN 10 QUOT

From marryg a duck to acknowledgg the pro-gay marriage argument to lamentg an attack on Juo-Christian roots. * bill o reilly on gay marriage *

Bill O’Reilly talkg on a phone 2004, probably about the “chaos” that gay marriage would e. But as the followg timele shows, O’Reilly’s views on gay marriage have been shiftg, fs and starts, for years now. October 27, 2004: “I’ve been sayg that all along, that if you open the door for gay marriage, then you have to have the polygamists and the triads and the mune people and everybody else, right?

BILL O’REILLY’S NEVER-ENDG EVOLUTN ON GAY MARRIAGE

Bill O'Reilly says gay marriage opponents are losg the bate. * bill o reilly on gay marriage *

April 14, 2005: “We told you this would happen, if gay marriage is legalized, then much chaos would follow.

July 10, 2006: “The gay marriage thg to me, I don’t unrstand why ’s so important for the secular progrsiv this untry, the people who want to change Ameri fundamentally and every way, why this is the lead issue. September 25, 2006: “To this culture warrr, gay marriage is not a val issue. And as long as gays are not penalized the civil arena, I thk the folks should make the ll at the ballot box.

January 18, 2009: “My tact is that you don’t change the fn of marriage for one group, homosexuals, bee you have to change for all the groups. May 10, 2012: “Unlike abortn nobody gets hurt when gays marry but do have ep implitns for what kd of society we want to be. It is also not wrong for homosexual Amerins to want to get as much pary as they n.

BILL O'REILLY ON GAY MARRIAGE: 'COMPELLG ARGUMENT IS ON THE SI OF HOMOSEXUALS'

The Hoe of Reprentativ on Tuday passed a bill to dify the right to gay marriage the wake of the Supreme Court's reversal of Roe v. Wa * bill o reilly on gay marriage *

December 3, 2012: “I’ve got nothg agast gay marriage, ’s not my issue. All right, I want homosexual Amerins to be happy and to pursue happs. March 26, 2013: “The pellg argument is on the si of homosexuals.

All right, the gay marriage thg, I don’t feel that strongly about one way or the other.

O’Reilly’s Gay-Marriage Evolutn 10 Quot.

BILL O’REILLY CONTU GAY MARRIAGE REVERSAL, SHOUTS OUT DENNIS RODMAN (VIO)

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Some signifint moments the gay marriage posn of Fox News host Bill O’Reilly:Marry a duckMay 26, 2009: O’Reilly discs a cisn by the California Supreme Court that gay marriage would rema illegal: “If the California Supreme Court had allowed the gays to marry, then anybody uld have gotten married. “Homosexuals” prevail on the mersMarch 26, 2013: O’Reilly discs arguments before the U. Supreme Court on gay marriage.

“The pellg argument is on the si of homosexuals. Gay marriage — ’s No.

BILL O'REILLY SLAMS GAY MARRIAGE RULGS BY SUPREME COURT (VIDEO)

Bill O'Reilly: Gay marriage proponent? Bill O'Reilly said on Tuday that the arguments agast gay marriage were weak. But do that mean he's a gay marriage supporter? * bill o reilly on gay marriage *

Aga, O’Reilly:Number 4, gay marriage.

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Bill O'Reilly aga theorized that the legalizatn of gay marriage uld lead to terspeci marriag, statg to Margaret Hoover, "[Y]ou would let everybody get married who want to get married. You want to marry a turtle, you n." O'Reilly has prevly suggted that gay marriage uld ultimately allow for a person to marry a goat, duck, or dolph. * bill o reilly on gay marriage *

They have turned public opn around and gay marriage is now legal many plac.

In his monologue, O'Reilly claimed that while he personally “uldn't re ls about gay marriage, ” if judg ntued to “impose their views on everybody else...

BILL O’REILLY CALLS GAY MARRIAGE OPPONENTS ‘BIBLE THUMPERS,’ SEEMGLY REVERSG STANCE (VIO)

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O'REILLY: Personally I uldn't re ls about gay marriage. But acrdg to a poll by the Pew Rearch Center, only 32 percent of Amerins favor gay marriage.

BILL O'REILLY: GAY MARRIAGE ADVOTE OR OPPONENT?

O'Reilly's Astonishg Comments About Gay Marriage * bill o reilly on gay marriage *

As public opn on same-sex relatnships and homosexualy shifted, so too did media pictns of the LGBT muny, both mirrorg and rercg the normalizatn of same-sex relatnships the public's imagatn. On his rad show  2005, O'Reilly argued that the Foundg Fathers hadn't addrsed gay marriage the Constutn, “Bee back then, if you were gay, they hung you":.

O'REILLY: You know, the Foundg Fathers didn't wre anythg to the Constutn about gay marriage. Bee back then, if you were gay, they hung you. In 2009, Fox & Friends -host Steve Doocy noted the growg acceptance of marriage equaly and asked, “Gay marriage on the march...

O'REILLY'S ARK: GAY MARRIAGE ULD LEAD TO GOAT, DUCK, DOLPH, AND TURTLE MARRIAGE

Papa Bear dubs the gay marriage argument "pellg" but nmns Bill Clton for flip-floppg. * bill o reilly on gay marriage *

” Her answer garnered wispread cricism, promptg Fox News to sh to her fense and cry the tolerance and polil rrectns of the gay muny.

Fox's opposn to same-sex marriage garnered praise om anti-gay groups. In Febary of 2010, Maggie Gallagher, -founr of the Natnal Organizatn for Marriage (NOM), penned a New York Post op-ed toutg Fox News as an example of the “unter-media” that would help anti-gay nservativ w the culture war.

BILL O'REILLY QUOT ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE

And anti-gay groups would soon fd themselv needg Fox's help more and more.

Fox News ntributor Liz Trotta cried the media's posive verage of the cisn, suggtg that Walker had a "vted tert" strikg down the ban bee he is gay - a sentiment echoed elsewhere on Fox News. It was a vastatg loss for anti-gay groups, who poured signifint funds to unsuccsfully prsurg a handful of morate Republin lawmakers to oppose same-sex marriage. " His ments were, unsurprisgly, cricized by Gallagher and her anti-gay peers.

BILL O'REILLY: GAY MARRIAGE FO CAN ONLY 'THUMP THE BIBLE' IN THEIR ARGUMENTS (VIDEO)

But even as the work backed away om s typil talkg pots agast same-sex marriage, ntued to support anti-gay nservativ who were fdg themselv creasgly out-of-step wh public attus on the issue.

A Gay Marriage “Revolutn” At Fox?

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

The same month that Huckabee was rallyg the untry around Chick-fil-A, Buzzfeed clared that “The Gay Rights Revolutn” had arrived at Fox News, cg a number of pro-equaly ments ma by Fox News personali. Evince of Fox's “gay rights revolutn” ntued to mount as the months went on. Fox personali cludg Megyn Kelly, Lou Dobbs, and Geraldo Rivera ma ments suggtg they supported allowg gays and lbians to marry.

BILL O'REILLY EXPLOS AT CONSERVATIVE RAD HOST LRA INGRAHAM OVER HIS GAY MARRIAGE COMMENTS

When Print Obama mentned marriage equaly his 2013 State of the Unn addrs, the -hosts of Fox's The Five exprsed sual support, wh -host Dana Pero even askg “who talks about gay marriage anymore?

Still,  would be misleadg to scribe Fox's changg tone on same-sex marriage as evince of a “gay rights revolutn. Rather than attackg same-sex marriage outright, the work would highlight stori that picted anti-gay groups and dividuals as the victims of the culture war whose ee speech and relig liberty were beg threatened by overly amb gay rights activists. That narrative has allowed the work to ntue providg red meat to s anti-gay dience while avoidg the kd of blatantly homophobic arguments that have fallen out of favor wh the public.

Bill O'Reilly says gay marriage opponents are losg the bate. "The pellg argument is on the si of homosexuals, " O'Reilly said on "The O'Reilly Factor" Tuday.

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Bible-thumpers and gay marriage: Bill O’Reilly is right about nservative fundamentalists. .

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