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• 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 AND GLENN BECK: CHAMPNS OF GAY RIGHTS?
• BILL O’REILLY’S GAY-MARRIAGE EVOLUTN 10 QUOT
• BILL O'REILLY: GAY MARRIAGE FO CAN ONLY 'THUMP THE BIBLE' IN THEIR ARGUMENTS (VIDEO)
• BILL O'REILLY WONRS WHY GAY NEW YORK TIM REPORTER ACTS SO GAY
• BILL O’REILLY CALLS GAY MARRIAGE OPPONENTS ‘BIBLE THUMPERS,’ SEEMGLY REVERSG STANCE (VIO)
• BILL O'REILLY: GAY MARRIAGE ADVOTE OR OPPONENT?
• BILL O'REILLY DRAWS LLS FOR APOLOGY AFTER HE MOCKS 'GAY IENDLY' MCDONALD'S AD ON HIS FOX SHOW
• BILL O’REILLY CONTU GAY MARRIAGE REVERSAL, SHOUTS OUT DENNIS RODMAN (VIO)
• STEPHEN COLBERT TAK BILL O’REILLY TO TASK OVER HIS $32 MILLN SEXUAL-HARASSMENT SETTLEMENTSHAMEDTHE ‘LATE SHOW’ HOST JOKED THAT PAYG OUT A $32 LN SETTLEMENT IS ‘EXACTLY THE SORT OF THG YOU DO WHEN YOU’RE NOCENT.’MATT WILSTESENR EDORUPDATED OCT. 24, 2017 11:29AM EDT / PUBLISHED OCT. 24, 2017 12:45AM EDT CBSBILL O’REILLY IS BACK THE NEWS AND STEPHEN COLBERT IS BACK HIS ELEMENT.THE LATE SHOW HOST RETURNED OM A ONE-WEEK BREAK ON MONDAY TO NEW VELOPMENTS THE SAGA OF HIS FORMER “PAPA BEAR” AND EX-FOX NEWS HOST, WHO WE FOUND OUT THIS WEEKEND PAID A $32 LN SETTLEMENT FOR SEXUAL HARASSMENT BEFORE THE WORK RENEWED HIS NTRACT.  “WE’RE , SADLY, THE MIDST OF A FLURRY OF SEXUAL HARASSMENTS AND ASSLT ALLEGATNS AGAST SOME PRETTY BIG NAM SHOWBIZ,” COLBERT SAID. “PRODUCERS LIKE HARVEY WESTE, DIRECTORS LIKE JAM TOBACK, EVEN FORMER REALY-SHOW HOSTS,” HE ADD, AS PRINT DONALD TMP’S FACE APPEARED ON THE SCREEN. “AND OF URSE, FORMER FOX NEWS PUND AND SCROTUM WHO WISHED TO BE A REAL BOY, BILL O'REILLY.” COLBERT JOKED THAT PAYG OUT A $32 LN SETTLEMENT IS “EXACTLY THE SORT OF THG YOU DO WHEN YOU’RE NOCENT.” AMONG THE APPROPRIATE ACTNS FORMER FOX NEWS LEGAL ANALYST LIS WIEHL ACCED O’REILLY OF DOG WAS SENDG HER GAY PORN, PROMPTG COLBERT TO SAY, “WOW. SO, I GUS BOTH HER-ASSG AND HIS-ASSG.” O’REILLY CLAIMED HE WAS FORWARDG HER HARASSG MSAG OTHERS SENT TO HIM. “SO, LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT,” HE ADD. “PEOPLE SENT BILL GAY PORNOGRAPHY WHEN THEY WROTE TO CRICIZE HIM? IT MAK PERFECT SENSE. ‘DEAR MR. O’REILLY, I ULD NOT DISAGREE MORE ON YOUR TAKE ABOUT THE REPUBLINS’ NEW TAX PROPOSAL. AND TO DRIVE HOME MY POT, HERE ARE TWO YOUNG MEN DRIVG HOME THE POT.’” AFTER THE SETTLEMENT, FOX REWARD O’REILLY WH A $25 LN PER YEAR NTRACT. “WHAT DID BILL O’REILLY DO TO BILL O’REILLY?” COLBERT ASKED. “IT’S SHOCKG THAT FOX NEWS KNEW ABOUT ALL THE SEXUAL-HARASSMENT SETTLEMENTS AND KEPT HIM EMPLOYED FOR SO LONG. BUT MAYBE THEY WERE JT TRYG TO PROTECT THEIR FEMALE EMPLOYE. BEE IF BILL’S ON MERA, THAT’S ONE HOUR A DAY THEY KNEW HE’S NOT GROPG SOMEBODY.”SUMMG UP FOX’S APPARENT POLICY TOWARD O’REILLY OVER THE YEARS, COLBERT SAID, “FOOL ME ONCE, SHAME ON YOU. FOOL ME TWICE, SOME MORE SHAME. FOOL ME THREE TIM, YOU REALLY GOTTA DO A BETTER JOB OF FOOLG ME. FOUR TIM, WE'RE EXTENDG YOUR NTRACT. FIVE TIM, WE WISH THE BT OF LUCK TO BILL ALL HIS FUTURE ENAVORS—NOW, ENJOY THE TUCKER CARLSON SHOW!”   MATT WILSTE
• BILL O’REILLY ON GAY MARRIAGE: ‘COMPELLG ARGUMENT IS ON THE SI OF HOMOSEXUALS’
• BILL O'REILLY WONRS WHY GAY NEW YORK TIM REPORTER ACTS SO GAY
• BILL O'REILLY AND GLENN BECK: CHAMPNS OF GAY RIGHTS?

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

Is Bill O’Reilly Gay? McPhilmy for 15 years and has been acced of sexually harassg women, which clearly prov he is not gay. 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.

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

On Tuday, jtic heard oral arguments on the legaly of California's 2008 Proposn 8 ban on marriag for gay and lbian upl. O'Reilly said that both men ma polilly expedient cisns by alterg their views to match growg popular support for gay marriage. "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?

Though his posn has changed over the years om 2005 when he said, "If gay marriage is legalized, then much chaos would follow, " to 2013 when he said, "I support civil unns I always have. All right, the gay marriage thg, I don't feel that strongly about one way or the other, " Bill O'Reilly has always mataed throughout that "tradnal marriage" is a rnerstone of Amerin society.

So om a legal standpot, O'Reilly was fally nvced that gays had right to marry. But he's never stopped harpg on "secular progrsiv" and how they supposedly ed the gay marriage issue to ero what he views as an sential part of the value system that built Ameri, so 's clear that om philosophil standpot, O'Reilly still disapprov. Statistics regardg heterosexual marriage over the past few s have shown that long before gay marriage was even beg nsired a urtroom, "tradnal, " heterosexual marriage was dog jt fe stroyg self on s own.

Peter Bart on Wednday put to rt mors that he is gay and datg Bill O’Reilly. The edorial director of Variety and the host of The O’Reilly Factor were the targets of a bizarre Inter hoax Wednday which Bart, who is married to Phyllis Frette, out of the closet as a gay man who tends on marryg O’Reilly. I have been livg a lie for years, I am gay and datg Bill O’Reilly.

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

“I am Gay and I thk I always have been I am datg Bill O’Reilly om Fox and we are very much love Bill is ever so sweet real life all the redneck stuff he spouts on Fox is jt showbiz, In real life She is so sweet jt this morng I awoke wh a daisy cha on my pillow that Bill picked and left there wh a note ‘Je T’aimerai Ma Cherie’ She speaks French I uld have melted. He said that gays are wng the battle over marriage bee they have "the pellg argument, " and that those opposed to gay marriage need to e up wh an actual argument rather than jt "thump the Bible. O'Reilly is "a pompo, arrogant wdbag, " Fischer said, which was kd of like Ldsay Lohan llg Judy Garland a boozer and a pill then, O'Reilly, who spent years railg agast gay activists and beltlg gay marriage, has gotten ver om none other than Glenn Beck, who only last year acced gays of tryg to "stroy" marriage.

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

Beck, who nverted to Mormonism years ago, has spent the past 12 months sort of beg all over the place on the issue, but he now says the "prciple" of gay marriage is a sulkg Rh Limbgh was forced to adm that gay marriage "is gog to happen" and that "the genie is not gettg put back the bottle. " And when O'Reilly's fellow Fox mentator Sean Hanny recently attempted to make his and the right's posn agast gay marriage clear, blew up his face. Ben Carson to say the words that have plunged the Johns Hopks nrosurgeon and nservative risg star to boilg hot water, parg homosexualy to btialy and pedophilia while he me out agast same-sex marriage.

BILL O'REILLY WONRS WHY GAY NEW YORK TIM REPORTER ACTS SO GAY

O'Reilly ntu to e unr attack om "pro-fay" groups and moralizg nservative bloggers, but he's been gettg a lot of support for his posn om Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, who has promoted marriage equaly and has taken on anti-gay advot such as Maggie Gallagher, founr of the Natnal Organizatn for Marriage. Sudnly, there's actually discsn and bate about gay marriage on Fox News -- wh real live nservativ supportg -- and looks like the two will be leadg that bate. None of this is to let O'Reilly off the hook for his idtic and ugly posns of the past on the issue (and surely he'll be attackg gay activists for one thg or another short orr), nor is to negate the fact that O'Reilly is que gnizant of keepg his ratgs high as he se support for gay marriage rise rapidly the polls.

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

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. 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.

BILL O'REILLY: GAY MARRIAGE ADVOTE OR OPPONENT?

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.

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.

BILL O'REILLY DRAWS LLS FOR APOLOGY AFTER HE MOCKS 'GAY IENDLY' MCDONALD'S AD ON HIS FOX SHOW

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. Speakg to Megyn Kelly about the Supreme Court's hearg on Proposn 8, O'Reilly--who has prevly pared gay marriage to btialy--appeared to have "evolved" on the subject.

He said he didn't "feel that strongly" about gay marriage "one way or another" and thought the cisn should be left to dividual stat. The pellg argument is on the si of homosexuals, " O'Reilly said. Relatedsupreme urt gay marriageBill O'ReillyGay MarriageVioFox NewsBefore You GoSupreme Court Proposn 8 CasePopular the CommunyYou May Like.

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

But did you know was also gay? Bee Zeleny is gay?

You mean "homosexual tim. " Now 's possible that O'Reilly and Goldberg were not aware that Zeleny is fact a gay man—somethg Media Matters, for some reason, didn't pot out—which would renr their jocular suatns that the Tim pansy asked a pansy qutn somethg jt short of bigotry. "Bee gays love unirns and rabows.

A week after Republin Senator Rob Portman, a one-time sponsor of the Defense of Marriage Act, announced his support of gay marriage, another proment nservative unveiled a siarly ground-shiftg — if slightly more most — reversal.

STEPHEN COLBERT TAK BILL O’REILLY TO TASK OVER HIS $32 MILLN SEXUAL-HARASSMENT SETTLEMENTSHAMEDTHE ‘LATE SHOW’ HOST JOKED THAT PAYG OUT A $32 LN SETTLEMENT IS ‘EXACTLY THE SORT OF THG YOU DO WHEN YOU’RE NOCENT.’MATT WILSTESENR EDORUPDATED OCT. 24, 2017 11:29AM EDT / PUBLISHED OCT. 24, 2017 12:45AM EDT CBSBILL O’REILLY IS BACK THE NEWS AND STEPHEN COLBERT IS BACK HIS ELEMENT.THE LATE SHOW HOST RETURNED OM A ONE-WEEK BREAK ON MONDAY TO NEW VELOPMENTS THE SAGA OF HIS FORMER “PAPA BEAR” AND EX-FOX NEWS HOST, WHO WE FOUND OUT THIS WEEKEND PAID A $32 LN SETTLEMENT FOR SEXUAL HARASSMENT BEFORE THE WORK RENEWED HIS NTRACT.  “WE’RE , SADLY, THE MIDST OF A FLURRY OF SEXUAL HARASSMENTS AND ASSLT ALLEGATNS AGAST SOME PRETTY BIG NAM SHOWBIZ,” COLBERT SAID. “PRODUCERS LIKE HARVEY WESTE, DIRECTORS LIKE JAM TOBACK, EVEN FORMER REALY-SHOW HOSTS,” HE ADD, AS PRINT DONALD TMP’S FACE APPEARED ON THE SCREEN. “AND OF URSE, FORMER FOX NEWS PUND AND SCROTUM WHO WISHED TO BE A REAL BOY, BILL O'REILLY.” COLBERT JOKED THAT PAYG OUT A $32 LN SETTLEMENT IS “EXACTLY THE SORT OF THG YOU DO WHEN YOU’RE NOCENT.” AMONG THE APPROPRIATE ACTNS FORMER FOX NEWS LEGAL ANALYST LIS WIEHL ACCED O’REILLY OF DOG WAS SENDG HER GAY PORN, PROMPTG COLBERT TO SAY, “WOW. SO, I GUS BOTH HER-ASSG AND HIS-ASSG.” O’REILLY CLAIMED HE WAS FORWARDG HER HARASSG MSAG OTHERS SENT TO HIM. “SO, LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT,” HE ADD. “PEOPLE SENT BILL GAY PORNOGRAPHY WHEN THEY WROTE TO CRICIZE HIM? IT MAK PERFECT SENSE. ‘DEAR MR. O’REILLY, I ULD NOT DISAGREE MORE ON YOUR TAKE ABOUT THE REPUBLINS’ NEW TAX PROPOSAL. AND TO DRIVE HOME MY POT, HERE ARE TWO YOUNG MEN DRIVG HOME THE POT.’” AFTER THE SETTLEMENT, FOX REWARD O’REILLY WH A $25 LN PER YEAR NTRACT. “WHAT DID BILL O’REILLY DO TO BILL O’REILLY?” COLBERT ASKED. “IT’S SHOCKG THAT FOX NEWS KNEW ABOUT ALL THE SEXUAL-HARASSMENT SETTLEMENTS AND KEPT HIM EMPLOYED FOR SO LONG. BUT MAYBE THEY WERE JT TRYG TO PROTECT THEIR FEMALE EMPLOYE. BEE IF BILL’S ON MERA, THAT’S ONE HOUR A DAY THEY KNEW HE’S NOT GROPG SOMEBODY.”SUMMG UP FOX’S APPARENT POLICY TOWARD O’REILLY OVER THE YEARS, COLBERT SAID, “FOOL ME ONCE, SHAME ON YOU. FOOL ME TWICE, SOME MORE SHAME. FOOL ME THREE TIM, YOU REALLY GOTTA DO A BETTER JOB OF FOOLG ME. FOUR TIM, WE'RE EXTENDG YOUR NTRACT. FIVE TIM, WE WISH THE BT OF LUCK TO BILL ALL HIS FUTURE ENAVORS—NOW, ENJOY THE TUCKER CARLSON SHOW!”   MATT WILSTE

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“The pellg argument is on the si of homosexuals, ” the host admted. O’Reilly ntued his mentary, addg, “New York has [gay marriage] now. As wh many nservativ that have “evolved” on the issue, he says should be a state’s right to ci whether accepts gay marriage (Democrats that have “evolved” to support gay marriage are mixed between thkg ’s a feral right and wantg stat to ci).

“The gay marriage thg, I don’t feel that strongly about one way or another.

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

O’Reilly has also been highly cril of the ACLU and other activists who have mand that the Boy Suts accept gay members.

BILL O'REILLY WONRS WHY GAY NEW YORK TIM REPORTER ACTS SO GAY

In 2007, he slammed the San Diego Padr for hostg promotns aimed at kids and gay people on the same night. 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? On Tuday, O'Reilly said the pro-gay marriage arguments were 'pellg.

Bill O'Reilly is a ratgs enge for Fox knows how to stir the pot - whether the subject is guns, gays, or budget cuts.

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

He's not strictly nservative all the posns he advot, and that mak for engagg – and sometim bombastic – exchang on his own show 'The O'Reilly Factor" as well as providg fodr for other programs on the Fox TV work to chew Tuday, O'Reilly me really close to endorsg gay marriage.

“The pellg argument is on the si of homosexuals...

" The he add: “The gay marriage thg, I don’t feel that strongly about one way or the other. And sayg that gay marriage is a stat' issue – not a feral one – echo the ments ma by Supreme Court Jtice Anthony Kennedy ma durg the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) hearg today: "The qutn is whether or not the feral ernment, unr our feralism scheme, has the thory to regulate marriage. "But O'Reilly didn't exactly endorse gay marriage.