Clip from February 8, 2012, The Rachel Maddow Show where Rachel interviews conservative Republican super-lawyer and legal icon, Ted Olson, fresh from his (an…
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Mr. Olson is a wonderful human being, and it sucks that he lost his wife on
9/11! (she was on board American flight 77, the one that crashed into the
pentagon)
Right on! And the march for freedom goes on.
@ekjohndeer, I love people like you who are too stupid to know what they
don’t know, a classic symptom of which is, like you, being mostly wrong,
but never in doubt. The U.S. Sup. Ct. (the final word on Const.
interpretation) has decided (Roe v Wade, PP v Casey) that unborn children
are not “persons” or “citizens” entitled to Constitutional protection
independent of the mother until they reach “viability” (i.e., can exist
independent of the mother). Smoke that in your corncob pipe.
🙂 Be careful what you wish for without a safety net.
no, Gays are not being discriminated in any way Marriage is an institution
of the Church , not of the gays Its like me going into a vegetarian
restaurant and demanding hamburgers !
the thing that bothers me about this is that conservatives say they are for
smaller govt yet they want to peek into our bedrooms and get between a
woman and her doctor…sounds like a more intrusive larger govt to me…
True, but they seem more ready to cross party lines. Look who the
tiebreaker was in the healthcare challenge, eh? 😉
@blognewb No, he’s straight. He was married to Barbara Olsen. She died on
one of the plane crashes on 09/11. He is now remarried. In fact, he’s been
married four times! I think that qualifies him as straight as can be!
People like you used to say the same about any ethnic group marrying a
white man or white woman (specifically blacks). All you did was swap one
word in that equation for another. You aren’t fooling anyone you fascist
fuck.
Not a big deal, yet. It was only 3 judge panel and 2 of them overturned a
law voted in by 7 million voters. The 9th circuit has most of its cases
overturned by the Supreme court.
rubbish ……. go abort a baby and prove there is no equality nor rights
in this world of privileges of which God, The Father of Jesus Christ is the
Chief Giver and Rule Maker
This is why I am a conservative republican. This is how TRUE conservative
republicans think and feel.. Solid thinking. Solid caring about laws
applying equally.. The radical christian “right” are closet liberal
communists wanting to use government to impose their narrow views on all
others. Yes I am gay, but even if I weren’t I would still feel this way.
Ted Olson’s wife was on the plane that crashed into the Pentagon on
9/11…probably helped to make him into the man that he has
become…realizes that life is short and we are all equal…
Inspiring
When I first saw this I almost bawled my eyes out. Bless you Ted Olson and
David Boise. Equal rights for all!
Republicanism: Ur Doin’ It Rite.
“All men are created equal.” What else needs to be said?
Interesting theory, but I have a feeling he has always believed in
individual rights and against government intrusion on those rights. Secular
Conservatives are classical liberals.
Are you high? If he opposed it, it doesn’t matter how great a lawyer he is.
Even if he busted Cheney for war crimes or put Romney in jail for tax
evasion, if Olsen were to oppose gay marraige he would be wrong, simple as
that. It doesn’t matter if one is liberal or not, Olsen would be wrong.
Fortunately he has more common sense than that.
@incitebytes You must be a low-life dummy to that slurs me for thinking
that a unborn child has a right . No where in the 14th amendment is says
anything about Gays, lesbians , and as for Ted thats his opinon but he is a
Lawyer.
faggot is as faggot does, eh name caller?
Yeah, I’ve always noticed that contradiction as well. But then again,
there’s hypocrisy on the other side too. I think it comes down to culture
and what people are emotionally connected to. Principles are often
subservient to feelings. Conservatives say they want small government but
don’t feel comfortable with what they associate with gay culture and
lifestyles. While progressives hate exploitation by corps but their drug
use is helping fuel tragedy in a de facto civil war in Mexico.
If you call denying someone their civil rights based on who they love, then
YES, regular americans ARE holding down gays and oppressing them. By the
way, that’s “lady” to you, sir.
It’s really a great and useful piece of info. Thank you very much for this
video.
Given to us by God exactly when? I’ve read the bible, and never did I see
the tradition given to man by God. And when exactly were Adam and Eve
married? I don’t recall that passage. You say that marriage is given by
God? Prove it.!
@iamavet Not this one
@DidMadeSaidThought no no, its much simpler then that. The religious right
is conditioned to imagine the unimaginable. When the word gay is uttered
near them, they instantly get inducted into a vivid graphic fantasy of
hardcore bumsex. That is why they are so opposed to it, because they keep
imagining a strong asspounding. But take any of those men aside and let
them watch 2 ladies going down on eachother and I bet you they have a boner
before the girls even get undressed.
Maybe he is in the closet too?
I agree Olson is right to defend gay marriage. The fact is, he is supremely
a brilliant lawyer. Liberals however would not admit that were he opposing
it.
I was married by a JP. No church was involved. Ergo, marriage is NOT an
institution of the church.
The institution of marriage is given to us by God. The problem exists when
you try to say marriage can be between a man and a man, or a woman and
woman, or man and horse, etc…. That’s not what the definition of marriage
is. Marriage is between a man and a woman. Period. Now we have leftwing
liberal activists trying to redefine marriage to mean anything.