Gayle King Likens Opposing Same-Sex 'Marriage' to Opposing Desegregation
Obama booster Gayle King attacked conservative Dennis Prager on Thursday's CBS This Morning for his opposition to same-sex "marriage." King channeled the left by equating such opposition to opposing desegregation: "You recently wrote...that you can be against same-sex marriage and not be anti-gay...it's sort of like saying to a black person...I want you to sit at the back of the bus, but I'm not anti-black." [audio available here; video clip below the jump]
The morning show slanted in general towards the cultural left by bringing on three supporters of same-sex "marriage" or civil unions: former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani; Chris Hughes, the publisher of The New Republic; and Max Mutchnick, co-creator of the TV show "Will and Grace," which was recently cited by Vice President Joe Biden as he announced his support of the redefinition of marriage on Sunday's Meet The Press. Hughes and Mutchnick are both open homosexuals.
Prager appeared on the newscast just after the top of the 8 am Eastern hour, about an hour after Giuliani and Hughes, and immediately before Mutchnick. Anchor Charlie Rose first asked the right-leaning talk show host, "Tell me what you think the political fallout from this is and where you think the country is on this issue of same-sex marriage." The guest, answered, in part, that "I don't think it will be good for him [President Obama], and I think it will energize all of those evangelical Christians who had misgivings about voting for a Mormon [Mitt Romney].
King then came in with her incendiary question to Prager, who replied by refuting her loaded analogy:
KING: Dennis, you recently wrote an article about- that you can be against same-sex marriage and not be anti-gay-
PRAGER: Right-
KING: And a friend of mine told me recently, it's sort of like saying to a black person, listen, I want you to sit at the back of the bus, but I'm not anti-black. A lot of gays, I keep hearing, aren't understanding your distinction. What do you mean?
PRAGER: Well, I mean it with the- with utter sincerity, knowing gays so well and being- and, having in my extended family, a wonderful lesbian couple with a child. It's not the same as in the back of the bus. It's the same as- I have a better analogy. It would be like saying, I prefer that married people raise children to single people. That doesn't mean that single people are inferior to married people.
It shouldn't be any surprise that the CBS anchor, an admitted friend of First Lady Michelle Obama and donor to the President's reelection campaign, would run to the defense of the chief executive's latest position on this controversial issue.
[Update: the full transcript of the Dennis Prager segment from Thursday's CBS This Morning can be read at MRC.org.]
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Idiot.
Submitted by Soldat44 on Thu, 05/10/2012 - 7:34pm.
Idiot.
Are
Submitted by grammajane on Thu, 05/10/2012 - 7:36pm.
we tired of this yet? Suppose all weekend the news will be all the gala that went on with cloony and the prezzy and the 40 grand dinner. Is the crap ever going to stop
Hopefully NLT nov. 6
Submitted by nixon on Thu, 05/10/2012 - 7:37pm.
Hopefully NLT nov. 6
The MSM is celebrating Obama's same-sex marriage . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Fri, 05/11/2012 - 9:04am.
. . . statement like parents congratulating their first born child the first time the kid successfully uses the potty. It'll pass in time, but not before it gets beat to death.
This subject is where my libertarian side (I'm not a full-blown libertarian) gets irritated by the hoopla. I believe that government ought to get out of the marriage business altogether. The only interest the state has is in who is legally responsible for raising and supporting the children. If two or more adults want to enter a marriage-like committed relationship, they can do so in accordance with their religious faith, etc. But when a child is born, the parental names on the birth certificate identify who is responsible for that child until he/she reaches adulthood.
Galv,
Submitted by Agnostic on Fri, 05/11/2012 - 9:19am.
This is not an issue that is high on my list but did you notice a few things:
1) The reaction of the media members on the Sunday talk shows (via on-line clips) were surprised and shocked at the boldness of this statement. It was Sunday - the announcement was the previous Friday and they were feigning surprise and shock to add emphasis to the story. This gives credence to the argument, true or not, that this whole 'announcement' has been a coordinated WH and media event.
2) The fact that Obama believes that it is a State's issue is exactly the same as many Conservatives but Conservatives are the ignorant enemy on the issue according to the media
3) There is no talk about the high probability of the government once again trying to force churches to perform same sex marriages if those marriages were ever made legal at the federal level. (Perhaps it would be too much to speak of so close to the whole contraceptive hyperbole.) You would think this would be an issue since it was one of the reasons many more secular people don't support this issue at the federal level.
4) Most importantly, according to the Washington Post, one out of six of Obama's major bundlers are openly gay.
Are we seriously devoting
Submitted by lesterwink23 on Thu, 05/10/2012 - 8:01pm.
Are we seriously devoting time to a woman who's only real accomplishment in life is being Oprah's BFF? I would put more stock in Miley Cyrus's opinion on social issues...almost.
You mean being Oprah's BLFF
Submitted by skolbrother on Thu, 05/10/2012 - 8:47pm.
You mean being Oprah's BLFF [Best Lesbian Fav. Friend] lol ! ...Not that there is anything wrong with that..just saying :)
Gayle
Submitted by HudsonRiverGirl on Fri, 05/11/2012 - 3:07am.
Some people need to come out of the closet.
Orca comes to mind
Clooney
Hitlery
Oxymoron
Submitted by allouchsit on Thu, 05/10/2012 - 8:08pm.
Gay marriage is an oxymoron. Period.
Exactly.
Submitted by lotr on Thu, 05/10/2012 - 9:11pm.
Exactly.
is it osamaosodomite or packer or packee that's the
Submitted by RD King on Thu, 05/10/2012 - 8:39pm.
new name for the worlds worst totus mmm mmm mmmmm?
And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
i'm no prude
Submitted by Kuso Jiji on Thu, 05/10/2012 - 8:45pm.
but the act of two men having sex with each other is about as unnatural and digustingly unhealthy as anything unnatural and unhealthy can be. it is the corruptable mind and immoral nature of man that leads people down this path. the line has been crossed and those that cross it better hope that God is just a figment of people's imagination.
yep
Submitted by lotr on Thu, 05/10/2012 - 9:27pm.
And the problem is that you are now being forced to recognize it publicly, against your own will, conscience and better judgment, as natural, healthy, life-giving and God-blessed.
That's a fundamental problem, folks. The attempts at forcing "the opposition" to comply are becoming more and more persistent and uncivil (although I'll grant that Obama's interview was respectful). The attacks are personal and polarizing. It's very unsettling.
Don't let anyone frame this as you infringing on the "rights" of others. That's a reverse-projection strawman. Nobody was in favor of "gay marriage" 20 years ago, and no culture or society ever recognized them. It's not a "right." On the other hand, freedom of religion and speech (the freedom of belief and thought) are fundamental rights, and these are the rights that are being infringed upon. It is a rational person's right to oppose and not recognize what he considers unnatural, immoral and self-destructive. Don't let them coerce you against your own better judgment.
Thrills and Chills
Submitted by GregE on Thu, 05/10/2012 - 8:48pm.
“Whatever people think about this issue, we know it’s controversial, there’s no denying when a president speaks out for the first time like that, it is history,” co-host of ABC’s “Good Morning America” George Stephanopoulos said to Robin Roberts.
And let me tell you, George, I’m getting chills again,“ ”Good Morning America” co-host Robin Roberts said about her interview with Obama.
“When you sit in that room and you hear him say those historic words. It was not lost on anyone in there right there. You never know what he’s going to say until you ask him,” she added.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/transcript-robin-roberts-abc-news-intervi...
Yea, you never know what he's going to say to the questions you've been told, by the White House or the campaign team, to ask him.
Classic, GregE
Submitted by tcm14 on Thu, 05/10/2012 - 8:57pm.
Yeah, the White House just gives you the questions not the answers so you don't know what he'll say. It's exciting!
Gary and Mingey agree.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Thu, 05/10/2012 - 8:52pm.
And Gayle should know; she's spent many carefree hours with them.
Wait...
Submitted by ant on Thu, 05/10/2012 - 9:05pm.
Let me get this straight.....80% of black voters (about the amount that have voted against gay marriage initiatives) want blacks to sit in the back of the bus?
Hysterical hyperbole much, Gayle?
Submitted by drsamherman on Thu, 05/10/2012 - 9:25pm.
Might I add histrionic to make the three "h's" of attention-whoring D-list celebrities?
I oppose..
Submitted by almostacowboy on Thu, 05/10/2012 - 9:27pm.
Gayle King.
So
Submitted by bmacdmac on Thu, 05/10/2012 - 10:40pm.
So they really think by excepting this hat this will become normal? Joe forced Obama's hand and this will be the big subject at hand. Gee everyone has work, two homes, two or three cars and there is no national debt plus plus plus. Nothing matters to Democrats as long as they get their way to hell with the country.
Prager left himself open
Submitted by Mattheus on Thu, 05/10/2012 - 10:41pm.
He said that in his extended family he had "a wonderful lesbian couple with a child". So he is saying that this lesbian couple is "wonderful", they have a child, and yet he wouldn't want them married. I wish the above clip was of the whole conversation. I would have liked to have seen if any of the hosts picked up on that.
What do homosexuals really think about marriage?
Submitted by stage9 on Thu, 05/10/2012 - 11:17pm.
Activist Paula Ettelbrick, once policy director for the National Center for L e s b i a n Rights, formerly legal director of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund (formerly the Lambda Legal Defense Fund), is tactically "for" same-s e x "marriage," but shares these caveats:
"Being q u e e r is more than setting up house, sleeping with a person of the same gender, and seeking state approval for doing so....Being q u e e r means pushing the parameters of s e x, s e x u a l i t y, and family, and in the process, transforming the very fabric of society....
As a l e s b i a n, I am fundamentally different from non-l e s b i a n women....In arguing for the right to legal marriage, l e s b i a n s and g a y men would be forced to claim that we are just like h e t e r o s e x u a l couples, have the same goals and purposes, and vow to structure our lives similarly....We must keep our eyes on the goals of providing true alternatives to marriage and of radically reordering society's view of reality."
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Both the National Center for L e s b i a n Rights and the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund are considered, not "fringe," but "mainstream" g a y activist groups. Former Lambda Legal Defense Fund president Thomas Stoddard also expresses lukewarm support for same-s e x "marriages":
"I must confess at the outset that I am no fan of the "institution" of marriage as currently constructed and practiced....Why give it such prominence? Why devote resources to such a distant goal? Because marriage is, I believe, the political issue that most fully tests the dedication of people who are not g a y to full equality for g a y people, and also the issue most likely to lead ultimately to a world free of discrimination against l e s b i a n s and g a y men."
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Activist Donna Minkowitz says:
"We [g a y and l e s b i a n activists] have been on the defensive too long. It's time to affirm that the Right is correct in some of its pronouncements about our movement. Pat Buchanan said there was a "cultural war" going on "for the soul of America" and that g a y and l e s b i a n rights were the principal battleground. He was right. Similarly, [h o m o]'phobes like Pat Robertson are right when they say that we threaten the family, male domination, and the Calvinist ethic of work and grimness that has paralyzed most Americans' search for pleasure.
Indeed, instead of proclaiming our innocuousness, we ought to advertise our potential to change straight society in radical, beneficial ways. Het[ero s e x u a l]s have much to learn from us: first and foremost, the fact that pleasure is possible (and desirable) beyond the sanction of the state. Another fact gleaned from g a y experience-that gender is for all intents and purposes a fiction-also has the potential to revolutionize straight lives."
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Writing in Out magazine, regular contributor Michelangelo Signorile (quoted supra) has described a strategy in which h o m o s e x u a l s
"fight for same-s e x marriage and its benefits and then, once granted, redefine the institution of marriage completely...to debunk a myth and radically alter an archaic institution....The most subversive action lesbians and g a y s can undertake-and one that would perhaps benefit all of society-is to transform the notion of 'family' entirely."
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What same-sex "marriage" has done to Massachusetts
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/marriage/effects_of_ssm.html
"If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner." — Malcolm Muggeridge
I think this confirms
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Thu, 05/10/2012 - 11:24pm.
that just because the American Psychiatric Association stopped calling homosexuality a metal disorder, it doesn't mean that they don't have one.
How did they get the word "gay?" Most of the homosexuals that I've worked with are the most miserable people I know.
And I'm still waiting for the definitive proof that they are born this way and nothing can alter that. We need to stop accepting the argument from the left that they "just are that way."
I'll help you out:
Submitted by stage9 on Fri, 05/11/2012 - 10:43am.
Is there a "gay gene"?
http://www.narth.com/docs/istheregene.html
"If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner." — Malcolm Muggeridge
Good one. Thanks.
Submitted by lotr on Fri, 05/11/2012 - 12:28pm.
Good one. Thanks.
If you are pro-gay you cannot
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Thu, 05/10/2012 - 11:45pm.
If you are pro-gay you cannot be anti-NAMBLA.
Obama's Phony Evolution
Submitted by berlet98 on Fri, 05/11/2012 - 1:25am.
Obama's Phony Evolution
Now that President Barack Hussein Obama has emerged from his political closet and announced he has resolved his long-standing confusion, indecision, and lack of surety regarding the morality–and practicality–of same-sex marriages, his motivations should be examined.
Republican low-lifes will no doubt attribute the president’s sudden, radical flipflop as concrete evidence that he has no core values and he “evolved” only because he needs both gay money to supplement his campaign coffers and gay votes to supplement the ballot box in November.
They will say he has long favored men marrying men, women marrying women, and undermining the religious institution of marriage and was being coy about it all until he had “more flexibility” in his second term.
They will say Vice President Joe Biden and Education Secretary Arne Duncan shamed Obama into his alleged epiphany by indicating they would be “comfortable” with gay marriage.
They will say North Carolinianians forced his hand when they voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to join 38 other states in opposing same-sex marriages and civil unions.
They will say that since Obama’s Democrats have already repealed the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy and his DoJ secretary announced his administration would not defend the Defense of Marriage Act in court, the president would logically have to endorse homosexual marriage.
And they would be absolutely wrong. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=23610.)
Why is it
Submitted by John21 on Fri, 05/11/2012 - 8:17am.
Why is it that everytime the liberals come out with one of their stupid ideas in is always like "Opposing Desegregation"
Voter ID back to the Jim Crow laws and desegregation
Disagree with the "Obama Occupy movement" back to Jim Crow
Oppose the Incompetent in Chiefs policy back to the Jim Crow and desegregation
Abortion funding reductions same as Jim Crow
Obamacare failures back to Jim Crow
I know they are trying to get the "White regret" to support the moron crowd but after four years of continuous "Race Card" usage don't they think that they are over the credit limit?
That's ok, Darlin'. I equate
Submitted by texastommy on Fri, 05/11/2012 - 8:24am.
That's ok, Darlin'. I equate same sex marraige with bestiality and child rape. So there.
You mean you can practice being black?
Submitted by ohio granny on Fri, 05/11/2012 - 10:01am.
I didn't know you could choose to be a practicing black. Gee the things you learn by listening to liberals !!!
Doubling Down on Stupid
Submitted by dscott on Fri, 05/11/2012 - 10:44am.
Talking about handling the issue badly. Liberals sense people's rejection of their pet agenda item and when they can't muster a cogent argument to convince people resort to name calling. That's the ticket Gayle, like Ted (the womanizing drunk) Kennedy you parade your artificial morality as a chip on your shoulder shouting bigot in a vane attempt to shame people into agreeing with you or at least not opposing you.
Liberals are making the mistake they always do, they get wrapped up in their own hype, over reach on their emotionalism and in the process turn off the public with their high brow self righteousness. Few things are more distasteful than the rantings of the self righteous, gloating and face rubbing of ungracious winners and the whining of sore losers. Liberals seem to excel at all three.
He turned water into wine; the government added floride
Submitted by lrgon on Fri, 05/11/2012 - 11:11am.
Jesus was at the marriage ceremony in Cana - a totally private religious affair when He performed this miracle at the request of His mother.
When the government began to issue marriage licenses religion began to take a back seat to the manipulators in government land.
One can say that when the government interfered in private religious ceremonies by issuing silly licenses the Church lost a grand opportunity to smack these busy bodies down before they went any further.
Those that have taken control of our government know that the point of issuing marriage licenses to gais has nothing to do with equality but with power over religion. They cold care less about equality. The same government says it's ok to murder babies.
The all powerful secular state cannot turn water into wine as Jesus did at the marriage between one man and one woman. The government may try but all it can do to water is add rat poison to it.
He turned water into wine; the government added floride
Submitted by lrgon on Fri, 05/11/2012 - 11:12am.
Jesus was at the marriage ceremony in Cana - a totally private religious affair when He performed this miracle at the request of His mother.
When the government began to issue marriage licenses religion began to take a back seat to the manipulators in government land.
One can say that when the government interfered in private religious ceremonies by issuing silly licenses the Church lost a grand opportunity to smack these busy bodies down before they went any further.
Those that have taken control of our government know that the point of issuing marriage licenses to gais has nothing to do with equality but with power over religion. They could care less about equality. The same government says it's ok to murder babies.
The all powerful secular state cannot turn water into wine as Jesus did at the marriage between one man and one woman. The government may try but all it can do to water is add rat poison to it.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Fri, 05/11/2012 - 11:22am.
If I were a black person, particularly an older black person who was around in the 50's and 60's, I would be really pissed off right about now when homosexuals try to compare their "plight" to that of the black population in this country back in that era.
Really pissed off.
State Issue?
Submitted by Ben Hur on Fri, 05/11/2012 - 12:29pm.
Then I guess Obama's a racist, because he thinks it's a state issue.
Is desegregation a state issue?
The fact that they don't show his next sentence from the interview is going to piss off a lot of gay rights activists when they do hear it.