Radio host and religious extremist Rush Limbaugh has a word of advice to Christian bakers who are opposed to making gay wedding cakes: Blame Islam.
“Gay marriage is really disapproved in Islam,” Limbaugh recently blabbered on his radio program. “Gay marriage, homosexual behavior is not tolerated, it is not permitted, and it is punished severely when it is caught, when it’s spied.”
“And yet,” he continued, “in American media all over the place we are celebrating gay marriage, we are flaunting gay marriage, and I ask, does this not also offend Muslims?”
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Based on that logic, Limbaugh believes he’s come up with the perfect solution for the next time an antigay baker is asked to make a gay wedding cake.
“Instead of telling the gay couple that you refuse to bake the cake for their wedding because you disapprove of homosexuality,” he said, “you should now say you are not going to bake a cake for the gay wedding because you fear Muslim backlash.”
This is not satire. He really believes what he says, it seems.
Better yet, he said, tell them you cannot bake a cake “due to your respect of Islam.”
“Any of you small business owners who think you’re gonna get a visit from a gay couple asking you for your product or service at a gay wedding just say, ‘Nah, nah, nah, we refuse because of our respect of Islam. We can’t.’ Don’t say anything about your religion. Don’t say anything about it’s your religion that prevents you from doing it. Say it’s Islam.”
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darian
Haha he isn’t even trying anymore. Usually Republican deflection has a little more effort in it.
Daws
You know, if you didn’t post this article I wouldn’t have realized Limbaugh was still a thing. I can’t think of the last time I even thought about him. So…why don’t we leave the reporting of absurd, meaningless conservatives to Fox and their ilk, hmm?
Xzamilio
This is good ole neo-conservative fatwa envy… they aren’t afraid of radical Islamic extremists… they are jealous of them because of the theocracies they can establish in their own countries, but not here in America because we are secular. With that said, I will say that he has a point in that we do often ignore the atrocities in Islamic countries when talking about LGBT oppression… and these conservative lunatics are taking notice of the seemingly double standard we have with freely expressing disdain for fundamentalist Christianity but not fundamentalist Islam.
But he’s full of shit because he knows his argument is biased and based on a false narrative of religious freedom because he doesn’t care about religious freedom… just Christian dominionism. This guy is a joke… even Fox News keeps their distance from him
aliengod
The thing is, he’s right. Because we have a Muslim President, you’re much more likely to be granted a religious reprieve if your beliefs are Muslim and not Christian. Either way, it’s a bunch of shit!
Glücklich
You know who I miss for the laugh factor? Dr. Laura.
JCG
How about we just blame good ol’ fashioned bigotry and not drag religion into it. Mmmkay?
jwtraveler
@aliengod: Which alien country or planet do you come from that has a Muslim president? Just curious.
Avery Alvarez
Rush and Elton need to have sex one more time…
Transiteer
He knows so little about so many subjects, I can see why he’s Republican.
Mac Daddie
I heard it rumored that Rush is actually a closeted gay man, how is that not public knowledge? Or, was it just his college experimentation? Guess that explains why he can’t stay married… LOL
Xzamilio
@JCG: You mean the “good old fashioned bigotry” perpetrated by religious individuals? I don’t hear anyone saying “I’m against gay marriage because I’m a good old fashioned bigot”… I hear, “I’m against gay marriage because I’m a [insert religious affiliation here].” Hell, the opposition drags religion into it constantly… it’s their last line of defense and the only seemingly justifiable excuse to be bigoted in today’s age.
Clark35
Who?
Sluggo2007
Religion AND Rush Limbaugh: The ultimate bullshit!
gaym50ish
Under most state and local anti-discrimination laws, discrimination is discrimination, no matter what is the real or feigned reason for it. Saying you’re defending Islam would not get you off the hook in MY state.
Giancarlo85
@aliengod: You are such an ignorant little man. Obama is Muslim? Since when? He is a Christian and an American citizen. You are full of shit. And if you bring up Kenya, realize that is a Christian country.
I don’t have words to describe how stupid you sound right now.
@JCG: Except religion causes bigotry.
jason smeds
Rush partly has a point. You can’t deny his point that Muslims are violently anti-gay and yet the American GLBT community refuses to take up the issue with Muslims.
America’s GLBT community appears to be afraid of taking the Muslims to task.
enfilmigult
So, bear false witness in a really, really obvious and detectable way that people are going to love drawing attention to. Great plan, LOL. I almost hope someone tries this because watching it blow up in their face would be pretty satisfying.
Steve Talbot
In other words, behave in a duplicitous, disingenuous, and dishonest way. How “Christian”!
Here’s the thing. If your intentions are noble, there is no need to resort to such trickery and deceit. We win!
ted72
Then we should post the business owners’ names and business addresses on the Internet for any Muslim to view on how these people are disrespecting their religion.
Knarf Yahzie
He still alive?
Sweetie Pie
Rush in black leather……yummy
Chris Duffy
Says the man who paid Elton John a million bucks to play his FOURTH wedding reception. Even this guy doesnt believe his own nonsense anymore……
aaronarnwine
I actually listen to Rush Limbaugh – instead of getting your information from Media Matters in selected snippets, I’d suggest listening to his full show. He was making a great point about how the Media came down on Pam Gellar for Draw Muhammed contest saying you shouldn’t do that kinda stuff because it makes Muslims mad. And he’s like, where do you draw the line? Muslims don’t like gays either, are we going to tell gays to stop being gay so the Muslims don’t shoot up the place?
context matters. as a gay man who loves free speech, i think he made a great point.
of course the gay wedding cake comment was him trolling you all and of course you fell for it hook line and sinker.
Ron King
When’s he gonna O.D..
Avery Alvarez
@aaronarnwine: “of course the gay wedding cake comment was him trolling you all and of course you fell for it hook line and sinker.”
NO.
He’s not that clever and neither are you.
“as a gay man who loves free speech, i think he made a great point.”
I’ll repeat again, he’s not clever and neither are you
In the United States, Muslims are NOT the main opposition to gay rights. There’s no doubt that Islam is homophobic and punishes gay men greatly. But they are not even on the radar, here. It’s right wing white christians that have been leading the mangy pack. In that way, Extremist muslims and American christians are exactly the same.
You and Limbaugh can continue to push the muslim phantom, but everyone here knows whose faces keep appearing in articles bashing gays and demanding removal of rights and criminalization of gay people – and it’s not muslims faces. It’s Rush and his friends, and the gay quislings that push the rabid right wing agenda, like you.
Saint Law
@aaronarnwine: Because the blimp really cares about gay rights doesn’t he?
“of course the wedding cake comment was him trolling you all and of course you fell for it hook line and sinker”
Of course pissing all over the grotesque bloat isn’t actually falling for anything, you insipid titwank.
Cam
They’re staring to flip out because the first attacks by him and FOX News, claiming that Christians were being persecuted against by not being allowed to be bigots is getting them a lot of blow back.
So now what they do is try to change the topic. If you bring up anything anti-gay happening here in the U.S. they pull the old “Well look how much ISLAM hates gays!” As if that makes it ok for them to be bigots, because hey, they’re only trying to take away our civil rights, not hang us.
Pathetic. It would be like saying to women, “You shouldn’t be mad that we’re only taking your right to vote away, in SOME countries you can’t even own property!”.
Bob LaBlah
Its seem like yesterday morning (but was three years ago) when Rush Limbaugh PUBLICLY said to republican lawmakers “MOVE ON WITH THIS GAY MARRIAGE ISSUE” because (at least in my opinion) he saw how futile it was to oppose it and also saw just how silly the republicans were looking.
I have no doubt even this big, closeted queen is disgusted by the directionless republicans who once upon a time not too long ago revered him as a god. Not anymore obviously.
Bauhaus
“Gay marriage, homosexual behavior is not tolerated, it is not permitted, and it is punished severely when it is caught, when it’s spied.”
We get that Rush Limbaugh is pissed because he and his ilk can’t set the bar for our treatment to start at being tossed in jail or off a high rooftop alive for being gay.