Rush Limbaugh Quotes
What does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. He continued: She wants to be paid to have sex … She’s having so much sex she can’t afford contraception.”
He was referring to Sandra Fluke, a student at Georgetown University, a Catholic school whose health plans did not cover birth control pills. The Heath advisory committees had concluded that birth control pills were a critical element of women’s health. Congress was debating a rule that would exempt religions from having to provide birth control as a part of their health insurance if it was against their beliefs. However, universities, hospitals, museums and civil activities run by churches were not exempt, Ms Fluke testified before Congress that her birth control pills cost her much money out of pocket. Many conservatives throughout the country opposed the requirement, some on religious conscience grounds and others like Limbaugh who opposed because they opposed birth control itself. So Limbaugh concluded that since with insurance paying for birth control for women, the women were getting paid to have sex. Therefore Ms. Fluke was a prostitute and a slut. There was a national outrage over Limbaugh’s statements and many conservatives, especially those running for office were put in an awkward position. They realized the inappropriate logic and use of language and the meanness that Limbaugh exhibited, but with few exceptions they were afraid that if they opposed him publicly, Limbaugh would retaliate on the airways and he was the major Republican spokesman at the time. Although not a politician, he was in many ways the leader of the party. However, this time his mean, twisted, venomous, attack had gone too far. It was not a politician he had attacked this time; just an innocent young student. A number of his sponsors dropped him.
Rush Limbaugh, Political Talk Show Host, Radio Show, February 31, 2012
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1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley. Baldwin, a moralistic prig, and others including the rest of the Royal Family, pressured the King to give up Simpson, but the King instead abdicated and married Simpson who had been divorced and remarried when she began her affair with King Edward VIII.
By 1900 20 percent of American Women were already working and an inexorable trend had begun.
Schopenhauer was one who believed that monogamy was not a natural state and therefore could never really be enforced. No matter what laws, rules, norms a society has about monogamy, large numbers of people—often majorities—find ways around them. Those who have been the most passionate and public about the importance of monogamy, are often those who personally do not follow that path.
The 26 year old (young) Marx was not a great fan of collectivism in his early days.
There were no easy cures for these venereal diseases then. The War Department (What it was called in those days.) used patriotism to encourage celibacy.
Alsop wrote much about the Maryland and Chesapeake area of Colonial America. At the time many indentured servants emigrated to America, but the male to female ratio was 6 to 1. The women in effect had a great advantage and often could marry rich planters or others that they chose—not possible for women in England.
Rush Hudson Limbaugh III was an American radio personality, conservative political commentator, author, and television show host. He was best known as the host of The Rush Limbaugh Show, which was nationally syndicated on AM and FM radio stations.
