Bill O’Reilly Contu Gay Marriage Reversal, Shouts Out Dennis Rodman (Vio) – The Hollywood Reporter

Contents:

• BILL O’REILLY CALLS WHE HOE’S GAY MARRIAGE CELEBRATN ‘WRONG AND INSULTG’ (VIO)
• BILL O'REILLY AND GLENN BECK: CHAMPNS OF GAY RIGHTS?
• 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’S GAY-MARRIAGE EVOLUTN 10 QUOT
• BILL O'REILLY: GAY MARRIAGE ADVOTE OR OPPONENT?
• BILL O'REILLY COMPAR GAY PEOPLE TO AL QAIDA (VIDEO)

BILL O’REILLY CALLS WHE HOE’S GAY MARRIAGE CELEBRATN ‘WRONG AND INSULTG’ (VIO)

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.

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 AND GLENN BECK: CHAMPNS OF GAY RIGHTS?

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 on Gay Marriage: 'Compellg Argument is on the Si of Homosexuals'Bill O'Reilly says gay marriage opponents are losg the bate.

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

"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 CONTU GAY MARRIAGE REVERSAL, SHOUTS OUT DENNIS RODMAN (VIO)

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. Related Articl:Prop 8 at Supreme Court: How TV Helped Clear the Way for Same-Sex Marriage'Morn Fay' Co-Creator Steve Levan: I'd Be 'Happy' If Show Helped Overturn Prop 8 (Exclive)Jodie Foster Kicks Open the Closet Door - What It Means for Gays Hollywood.

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

But the Natnal Lbian and Gay Journalists Associatn took the iative and asked O'Reilly out for their annual nventn, and he said y. At a gay nventn?

"Durg an extensive terview at his rather msy Fox News office New York -- "It's always like this, " he explas -- O'Reilly talks about almost every gay issue unr the sun, om the gay pri para ("It's offensive, 's foolish, 's unterproductive, and backlash agast you") to gay adoptn (he supports and did a terrific terview wh Rosie O'Donnell, but adds, "I'm not lookg out for the gays here; I've got to tell you the tth. He also stat flatly that gays and lbians serve the same rights the workplace as everyone else and shouldn't be fired bee of who they are.

He thks gay-clive antidiscrimatn laws should be enacted every state and oppos the repeal effort agast such an ordance that's on the ballot September 10 Florida's Miami-Da he wouldn't md the least if someone thought he was gay. "If people want to thk I'm gay, fe, " he says.

BILL O'REILLY: GAY MARRIAGE ADVOTE OR OPPONENT?

"In fact, I wish I were gay.

I'm sure my reer -- bee I didn't get married until very late life -- that people said I was gay. I wasn't gog to say, 'No, I'm not gay.

BILL O'REILLY COMPAR GAY PEOPLE TO AL QAIDA (VIDEO)

" Later, while walkg down the hall to his stud, O'Reilly greets another employee by name and then sudnly asks her, "Am I gay? ""Are you gay?

"The problem wh homosexuals is, there's a feelg among some lears that they have to force people to accept them, " O'Reilly says.

"That reference to Holy Rollers-a possibly pejorative term that certaly won't enar him to the relig right-is one reason O'Reilly n be such a fascatg figure to some gay activists. Surely his stance on gay adoptn and ments like that don't play well wh the typil nservative Fox News viewer. "The only heat I take on the gay stuff is om very, very relig-driven people, " he sists.