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

Contents:

• BILL O’REILLY’S GAY-MARRIAGE EVOLUTN 10 QUOT
• BILL O’REILLY’S NEVER-ENDG EVOLUTN ON GAY MARRIAGE
• BILL O'REILLY ON GAY MARRIAGE: 'COMPELLG ARGUMENT IS ON THE SI OF HOMOSEXUALS'
• BILL O’REILLY CONTU GAY MARRIAGE REVERSAL, SHOUTS OUT DENNIS RODMAN (VIO)
• BILL O'REILLY SLAMS GAY MARRIAGE RULGS BY SUPREME COURT (VIDEO)
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS COULD REMOVE IT NEXT YEAR
• BILL O’REILLY CALLS GAY MARRIAGE OPPONENTS ‘BIBLE THUMPERS,’ SEEMGLY REVERSG STANCE (VIO)
• BILL O'REILLY: GAY MARRIAGE ADVOTE OR OPPONENT?
• O'REILLY'S ARK: GAY MARRIAGE ULD LEAD TO GOAT, DUCK, DOLPH, AND TURTLE MARRIAGE
• BILL O'REILLY QUOT ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
• BILL O'REILLY: GAY MARRIAGE FO CAN ONLY 'THUMP THE BIBLE' IN THEIR ARGUMENTS (VIDEO)
• BILL O'REILLY AND GLENN BECK: CHAMPNS OF GAY RIGHTS?
• BILL O'REILLY EXPLOS AT CONSERVATIVE RAD HOST LRA INGRAHAM OVER HIS GAY MARRIAGE COMMENTS

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

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?

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.

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

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.

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

It is also not wrong for homosexual Amerins to want to get as much pary as they n. 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. 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.

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

“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. Aga, O’Reilly:Number 4, 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... O'REILLY: Personally I uldn't re ls about gay marriage.

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

But acrdg to a poll by the Pew Rearch Center, only 32 percent of Amerins favor 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.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS COULD REMOVE IT NEXT YEAR

Bee back then, if you were gay, they hung you.

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

In 2009, Fox & Friends -host Steve Doocy noted the growg acceptance of marriage equaly and asked, “Gay marriage on the march... ” 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. 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.

BILL O'REILLY: GAY MARRIAGE ADVOTE OR OPPONENT?

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.

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? 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. 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?

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

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. On Tuday, jtic heard oral arguments on the legaly of California's 2008 Proposn 8 ban on marriag for gay and lbian upl.

BILL O'REILLY QUOT ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE

O'Reilly said that both men ma polilly expedient cisns by alterg their views to match growg popular support for gay marriage.

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

"They don't re about gays, " he add. "If they red about gays they would have been on board the begng. "O'Reilly, who supports civil unns, ma clear that gay marriage is not an issue that animat him and is one that should be cid by dividual stat.

"The gay marriage thg, I don't feel that strongly about one way or another, " O'Reilly said.

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

The fight started a week ago, when the Supreme Court heard oral arguments about gay marriage. [I asked] ‘What is about … llg a gay unn a marriage that offends you?

The pellg argument is on the si of homosexuals: … ‘We're Amerins. ” In a follow-up h, Limbgh repeated that O’Reilly “said the people that oppose [gay marriage] are jt a bunch of Bible thumpers. ” Send, O’Reilly never said opponents of gay marriage didn’t have a pellg argument.

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

” Lev acced O’Reilly of “trashg” and “mischaracterizg” opponents of gay marriage. Kelly never said gay marriage didn’t fy anyone’s relign.

” He answered that he classifi people as Bible thumpers when “all they do is say, ‘I object to gay marriage bee God objects to . When parts of the text n’t be squared wh those prcipl—the three-fifths clse, for stance, or the stctn to kill gay men—sensible people, cludg believers and nstutnalists, choose the prciple over the text. What nservatism needs today is ls fundamentalism about guns, dron, tax, and gay marriage and more emphasis on the unrlyg objectiv: eedom, orr, secury, fay formatn, fisl rponsibily, and growth.

Liz Cheney of Wyomg -- a break om her past stance on the issue, which publicly put her at odds wh her parents and sister, who is gay. "I've ma clear my support for gay marriage years ago.