On Tuesday’s episode of the “Hagee Hotline,” Matthew Hagee interviewed Jay Richards, a professor at the Catholic University of America and senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, about the Supreme Court’s upcoming marriage equality case.
Hagee asked Richards how Christians should discuss the issue of gay marriage so as not to be dismissed as close-minded and judgmental bigots who seek to deny civil rights to gay people, to which Richards replied that the issue is not about discrimination at all because there simply is no such thing as gay marriage.
“The accusation is that people on the other side just defend so-called marriage equality whereas we believe in discrimination,” Richards said. “That’s not it at all. The question is what is marriage? If marriage is an institution that uniquely and exclusively involves a man and a woman then we’re not depriving anyone of their rights. Anyone is free to marry so long as they can find someone that is willing to marry them, but marriage, by definition, is going to involve someone of the opposite sex. So it’s not like if someone identifies as gay, they have a different set of rights than I do. I don’t have the right to quote ‘marry’ a man either, simply because that’s not what marriage is”:
