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So, I knew that Bill O’Reilly is a huge homophobe, as evidenced by many clips from his show, but particularly this one:

So, I was deeply… curious when I saw the title of this video on RedLasso.com: “Even Bill O’Reilly runs out of reasons to oppose same-sex marriage” . Go check it out for yourself!

Basically, O’Reilly admits that being opposed to same-sex marriage on any sort of remote “legal” ground is bullshit. [The religious reasons are also bullshit, but a.) they’re irrelevant in making a legal argument, b.) apparently O’Reilly thinks they won’t matter enough, which proves California voters are secular enough to be reasonable, which is great, and c.) I could go on rants about the irrationality of religion forever, but that would be tangential.] But let me repeat that: O’Reilly admits that being opposed to same-sex marriage on any sort of remote “legal” ground is bullshit.

I am under no illusions that he’s an honest man who is going to decide to support it; I just realize that he made the slightly foolish blunder of videotaping this session of doubt instead of meeting in a back room to strategize better how to justify bigotry to an increasingly-tolerant constituency. He’s just searching for some good new ideas to use to fight The Good Fight, and predictably, the guest attorney guy couldn’t give him any. Just like the guest attorney representing the State of California couldn’t give the CA Supreme Court any, and just like the attorneys who wanted to put a stay on justice couldn’t deliver any. Because it makes no sense to keep same-sex marriage illegal.

O’Reilly, sir - you are a dinosaur. Does it worry you, perhaps?

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