(2013/04/08) Part 2: The pundits on marriage (LGBTQ)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 8 April 2013
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Edition #705
Part 2: The pundits on marriage
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Condemning Gay Marriage With Ridiculous Logic - This Week in Blackness - Air Date 3-25-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: Twisted logic - Coldplay
Ch. 4: Act 2: Don't Let The Truth Get In The Way Of Your Opinion - CounterSpin - Air Date 3-1-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: Make your own kind of music - Cass Elliot
Ch. 6: Act 3: Religious Host: Gay NFL Players Ruin Teams! - The Young Turks - Air Date: 03-09-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: He got game - Public Enemy & Voices Of Shabach Community Choir Of Long Island
Ch. 8: Act 4: Viewer Calls for Gays to be Beheaded - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 04-01-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Something, somewhere, sometime - Ben Sollee
Ch. 10: Act 5: Harassed To Death By Right Wing Press - Citizen Radio - Air Date 3-25-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: All the same - Sick Puppies
Ch. 12: Act 6: Supporting gay rights is a crime against humanity. Fact! - This Week in Blackness - Air Date: 4-2-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Baby, it's fact - Hellogoodbye
Ch. 14: Act 7: Highlighting the intolerant opposition - CounterSpin - Air Date: 3-29-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: Crazy thing called love - Queen
Ch. 16: Act 8: Bill O'Reilly: Same-Sex Marriage Foes a Bunch of Bible Thumpers - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 03-27-13
Ch. 17: Song 8: Under the milky way - Seven Nations
Ch. 18: Act 9: Conservative Wants Bill O'Reilly Hanged For Mocking Gay Marriage Opponents - Majority Report - Air Date: 04-03-13
Ch. 19: Song 9: The traitor - Sea Wolf
Ch. 20: Act 10: Take down of a sad, sarcastic, terrible columnist - Citizen Radio - Air Date: 4-3-13
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Ch. 24: Comments on trying to communicate - Jorge From South Florida
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show, for details visit |
| 0:06.3 | the membership tab at bestivalf.com. |
| 0:08.8 | Now, welcome to the award-winning Best of the Less Podcasts with Cups Today from this |
| 0:12.0 | week in Blackness, Counter-Spin, The Young Turks, The David Pakman Show, Citizen Radio, |
| 0:16.8 | and the Majority Report. |
| 0:30.2 | So there's been some polls that have been coming out about everything. I mean, there's |
| 0:34.1 | the Prop 8 and Domar being reviewed in the Supreme Court, so naturally, they're sitting around |
| 0:40.4 | polls again to see how people actually feel about, I don't know, gay marriage. And apparently, |
| 0:46.4 | people are overwhelmingly for it. Yeah, you gay marriage. But that's not enough for some |
| 0:55.2 | of our right-wing friends. |
| 0:56.8 | I believe we actually have a clip of that, but it's actually kind of hilarious. I think |
| 1:01.8 | it's a, you have that up there? No, did I not put that on the board? |
| 1:04.6 | I believe that was not put on the board. Let me see. Hold on. Actually, I believe that's |
| 1:08.6 | it. Yeah. I believe I have audio here. Let me hit the e-phone. |
| 1:11.8 | Quite frankly, the argument that the public is overwhelmingly in favor of same-sex marriage |
| 1:21.2 | Chris is ludicrous. 33 states have voted to keep marriage the union of one man and one woman. |
| 1:29.1 | You touched on the key issue here. If it was so obvious that the American public wants |
| 1:34.3 | to try a radical social experiment that results in children and those households, definitely, |
| 1:41.5 | not having a mother and a father, that's what makes marriage a special institution. |
| 1:47.4 | Pause. |
| 1:48.4 | Guarantees and women. |
| 1:49.4 | What are you talking about? This guy's on a roll. What do you mean, pause? |
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