Usually armed with pundits who will back him up or talking heads he can easily steam roll, Bill O'Reilly found himself in a precarious position last night: His guest who was supposed to argue that allowing gay marriage was bad for California … failed.
It's always been O'Reilly's gimmick to book guests who are sympathetic to his beliefs when he wants to make a case without actually standing behind it. Whether it's on immigration, the presidential election, or teen sex, O'Reilly rarely needs to stand on a soapbox of his own to make himself heard (though he often does); he does it by proxy with bandwagon guests.
So last night's program, where he invited anti-gay marriage attorney Don Schweitzer on to argue O'Reilly's own talking points, was a shining disappointment: Schweitzer didn't even pass the host's own low bar for a solid argument.
(Also interesting: Schweitzer is a divorce attorney, so wouldn't he stand to earn more by having a larger pool of people getting married and, potentially, divorced?)
Video below.
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O'Reilly has a bar? That is a revelation to me.
Oh god… O'Reilly just made our point for us? If a guy with a law degree can't give a guy who hates gays a good reason, you know that it is a dark day in the Red Repub. Camp.
Wow . . . all I can say is: FAIL!
I think Schweitzer actually made a legitimate point.
It's like Roe V. Wade. The end result is a positive but the way we're getting there will cause debate for years to come.
The debate with gay marriage isn't the union it's the religion that falls behind the title of "marriage." The best solution for all involved is to leave the government out of the religious sector of "marriage."
By doing this, we would have civil unions for hetro and homosexuals. This would appease today's light brigade of "marriage defenders" as well as bring a true equality to the issue.
Otherwise, we're going to be talking about this in 20 years just like RvW. RvW was founded on the Due Process Law under privacy - people are challenging the language to overturn abortion.