Politics | 04/10/2009 10:40 am
Dr. Laura on Gay Marriage: 'Beautiful' and 'Healthy' (Video)
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Counselor-turned-conservative-commentator Dr. Laura Schlessinger once caused raised eyebrows for opposing gay marriage, but she may have intimated a shift Wednesday on "Larry King Live."
Discussing the recent gay marriage wins in Iowa and Vermont, Dr. Laura told the CNN talk-show host that she thinks committed same-sex relationships are both "beautiful" and "healthy."
KING: Basically, five states now say you can have it [same-sex marriages]. What do you think of that? What are you laughing at?
SCHLESSINGER: Well, I don’t have much of an opinion on it.
KING: You have no opinion on it?
SCHLESSINGER: Not much, no.
KING: But you’ve always favored that marriage must be between a man and woman.
SCHLESSINGER: I’m very big on human beings finding love, attachment and commitment and being faithful to it, because there’s more to benefit when there is real, true commitment and faithfulness to it. I still believe, as just every president has, and all the people who ran for office, that marriage is a sacrament between a man and a woman. So not calling it marriage works for me. But that two people would have that sort of commitment to me is a very healthy and very positive thing in their lives and society as a whole.
KING: So, you favor marriage between a man and a woman, but you applaud the fact that even people of the same sex can have that kind of commitment to each other.
SCHLESSINGER: That’s a beautiful thing and a healthy thing.
Here’s the video of that exchange, via Huffington Post:
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And once again the staff at wowowow has mislead and blatantly lied with a title. Dr. Laura did not say that gay marriage was a beautiful thing, a healthy thing.
That is a total fabrication and they think that all of you are too mindwashed to know the difference. Obviously they are right about that.
She is not for gay marriage, silly as that whole idea is…..
BZZZZ, try again. Gay marriage is NOT silly, there is nothing silly about two people who are in love committing to each other. AND, like it or not Kelly in Texas, Gay Marriage is here. We have four states already legalizing it, Maine is going up for vote at the end of this month, and we’ll see what the California Supreme Court decides in June. It just a matter of time before the tide turns.
And try reading it again. She said that she was okay with it as long as it wasn’t called "marriage" and that it was a "beautiful and healthy thing" for two people of the same sex to be in love and committed to one another.
No Slinky…YOU read it again.
She said that she was okay with it as long as it wasn’t called "marriage" and that it was a "beautiful and healthy thing" for two people of the same sex to be in love and committed to one another.
By Slinky Binx on 04/11/2009 1:29 pm I don’t believe in gay marriage. That’s one thing that Obama and I agree on.The topic was obviously gay marriage, and this is a 180-degree about face from Schlessinger, whose usual rhetoric on gay issues runs like this:
Leaving aside the fact that, as a religious person, it’s surprising she believed that God makes "biological errors," these statements also point to the fact that she uses the title "doctor" which leads many people to believe she’s a psychologist, when in fact her PhD is in physiology. No credible psychologists believe that reparative therapies work. In fact, these therapies are considered quackery of the first order, and can be dangerous to the victims.
Well that’s nice, thanks for sharing….
I believe that marriage is between a male and a female.
Kris, attempting to justify a sexual preference with the institution of marriage, is my business. Marriage is meant to be between a man and a woman. To leagalize this sexual preference is to further an agenda that is a detriment to the American family as a whole as well as confusing and detrimental to our children.
What someone does behind closed doors is their business. I do not have my "nose" any where near their private lives. Gays have a right to protect themselves, and their property. There are laws in place to do so.
Their rights have not been violated. However, their desire to socially legitimize their sexual proclivity is another thing.
Once again Rudi, you attempt to discredit my own opinions by tying them to "talking points". Some may fall for it here, but others will not.
Gay marriage presents a false image to the youth of our country. It is confusing to them and pertetuates a lie. Marriage is between a male and a female. What positions, or sexual preference one has behind closed doors is their business. What is presented as normal and acceptable to my children is my business.
That is as false as it is offensive. It also does not pass the logic test.
If opposition to gay marriage was really about morality, then the moralists would also target adulterers, whose sin is prohibited in the Ten Commandments and whose breaking of civil contracts (the marriage vow) is a real threat to traditional marriage. Adultery leads to the break up of families and contributes to poverty and other social ills.
But moralists have no interest whatsoever in restricting the rights of adulterers — in preventing them from remarrying and making it legal and acceptable to fire them or evict them, as gays can be, because of their status as sinners. This is rank hypocrisy.
It is also incontrovertible proof that they are not really motivated by morality at all — that what homophobia is really about is personal prejudice.
Creating laws based on selective interpretations of the Bible is not democratic, it’s theocratic — and restricting the rights of minorities based on bigotry of the majority is un-American.