Laura Ingraham: Being Against Gay Marriage Is Not Being Anti-Gay Or Judging

Fox News guest host Laura Ingraham is totally supporting Mike Huckabee today, but insists that being against same-sex marriage is not being anti-gay and has nothing to do with judging anyone. 

On her radio show today, conservative Tea Party pundit and recent ABC News contributor Laura Ingraham talked about Mike Huckabee’s threat to leave the GOP if the Party doesn’t fight same-sex marriage. While she spoke in support of him, she attempted to soften her stance. 

According to Ingraham, being against the right of same-sex couples to marry doesn’t make someone anti-gay. And being against the right of same-sex couples to marry doesn’t mean someone is judging other people.

Having totally not squared that circle, Ingraham then suggests she might open to same-sex marriage as long as it can be proven that “it’s ultimately about what’s best for the children” and has a long history of working.

“What do we know definitively works, and worked, and what is still an unknown, what did [our country] historically believe?”

Which is like saying you’re totally up for changing your hatred of chocolate as long as someone can prove that for centuries it has tasted like vanilla.

“To say that you’re for traditional marriage doesn’t say that you’re anti-gay people or you don’t like gay people… nobody’s saying that.”

But Ingraham also says she thinks “it’s a huge mistake” for Republicans to ignore social issues.

And she lamented the role the judiciary has in America — a role the Founding Fathers created, by the way.

“Courts continue to overdue the will of the people,” Ingraham told her listeners, “and act as super-legislatures, and disregard the will of people in what — 33 states still?”

“If we’re going to redefine a social institution, as the courts clearly have done… at least you have to act like you care.”

The segment closes with Ingraham reading on-air a listener’s email: “Laura, how long before my faith becomes a hate crime?,” the reader asks. 

“That’s a great question,” Ingraham answers, ginning up her base.

“In a ‘tolerant’ society,” she asks, “how tolerant are we?”

How “tolerant” have anti-gay Christians been of the LGBT immunity for decades?

There’s an answer.

 

Hat tip and audio: Media Matters