Rush: Whitney Houston Funeral Filled with Stuff That Could Never Be Said at Democrat Convention

RUSH: Let me tell you something. Just a second here. Let me tell you something. The Whitney Houston funeral. I did not watch it because I was playing golf, but I saw highlights of it, and I’m going to tell you something. That Whitney Houston funeral, if the whole thing… It went five hours, right? If the whole thing was what I saw, that funeral should scare the Democrat Party to its core. Do you realize nothing that happened, nothing that was said from the pulpit inside that church at the Whitney Houston funeral could ever be uttered from the podium at the Democrat National Convention? (interruption) What do I mean? Oh, you… Well, okay, then I’ll have to tell you about this as the program unfolds. (interruption)

Forbes magazine. Maybe it was a blog, I’m not sure which, but they apologized by warning readers that they were gonna be talking a lot about Christianity in their reporting of the story. They even brought up Whitney Houston’s dog-eared Bible. The Forbes article on her funeral said: No offense, kids, but everyone talked about Whitney’s passion for the Bible. No offense, kids! That’s Forbes magazine. Jesse Jackson was there. I don’t know if you saw it, if you watched it. The Reverend Jackson did not look comfortable with the way this was going down.

This was a five-hour church service. Unabashed. No apologies. It was Christianity 101 with no excuses made from top to bottom. It had an unwavering Christian theme, which it should have. She was a Christian. Her church was a Christian church, it was a Baptist church. And from the stuff I saw and what I’ve read about it, none of it could have happened. None of it could be said — none of this kind of thing could go on — for example, at the Democrat convention in North Carolina coming up this summer. The Democrats and the media want to take the ability to publicly express our faith away from us. Suddenly the presidential campaign’s all about “social issues,” which is really code for “religious issues.”

When we talk about contraception (or when they do), what they’re trying to do is impugn Christians. They’re trying to scare everybody that if Santorum gets the nomination and is elected, we’re going to have a theocracy. We’re gonna have a Bible thumper in the White House who’s gonna be forcing his judgmental religion on everybody, and they want to scare everybody. And in the midst of that, here comes the Whitney Houston funeral — which is Black America, which is Christianity 101, in celebration — five hours of it. The pastor, guy named Marvin Winans, said, “Jesus is saying, ‘I don’t want you to become anxious about life. I don’t want you to feel that life has happened without purpose.’

“God works all things after the counsel of his own will. You are not a mistake, you are not a mishap. God had a purpose before he ever created a person.” You think somebody who’s gonna say that at the Democrat convention is gonna get away with it? Because there is no “god” there. God is the earth or god’s the president or god’s some inanimate object. He said, “When people look at the Bible, they look at it from the wrong perspective. The Bible is the owner’s manual.” He held it up. And then he said that “the anecdotes in the Bible have been provided so that you can get the best out of your life.” He said, “Come on Sunday. I do this every Sunday. Come to my church on Sunday, you’ll see.