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Bill O’Reilly: Forget LGBT People, The Real Victims Are Pro-Lifers
In yet another attempt at painting himself, a white, male multi-millionaire, as a victim, Bill O’Reilly said that pro-life people encounter more bigotry than LGBT people.
On yesterday’s show, guest Bernie Goldberg talked with O’Reilly about two of last week’s biggest headlines, the Susan G. Komen Foundation and the protests agains JC Penney for hiring Ellen DeGeneres as a spokesperson.
“Reasonable people may disagree on gay marriage, that’s fine,” Goldberg said. “But to call on someone’s dismissal to be fired, to lose her job, because she’s gay, is bigotry. And I don’t care how many people listening to us right now don’t like that, it’s bigotry.”
O’Reilly countered that people don’t hate Ellen DeGeneres because she’s gay, “it’s how she presents it to the public, that she flaunts it.”
Goldberg said, “I flaunt my heterosexuality.”
“She makes it a cause celeb,” said O’Reilly.
“There’s no agenda. She’s just gay. She wants to live her life as a gay person,” replied Goldberg.
O’Reilly countered that people don’t hate Ellen DeGeneres because she’s gay, “it’s how she presents it to the public, that she flaunts it.”
Goldberg said, “I flaunt my heterosexuality.”
“She makes it a cause celeb,” said O’Reilly.
“There’s no agenda. She’s just gay. She wants to live her life as a gay person,” replied Goldberg.
Read more: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/02/07/bill-oreilly-forget-lgbt-people-the-real-victims-are-pro-lifers-video/
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How do you flaunt your heterosexuality? What does that look like? Is this something I would want to watch? Then again maybe not. 
