Steve Yuhas

Steve Yuhas (born February 4, 1973) is a conservative radio personality in Southern California.

He is a frequent guest on radio and television programs and contributes to a myriad of newspapers and magazines.

The Steve Yuhas Show airs on News Radio 600 KOGO.

The moniker of the program produced by Clear Channel Communications is 'Uniquely Conservative Talk Radio' and is registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Steve Yuhas (born February 4, 1973) is from New York City, New York.

He served nearly eight years in the United States Army and Marine Corps and received an honorable discharge.

According to Yuhas' DD214 (as well as several DD215's - administrative corrections to the DD214) filed with Los Angeles County and examined by the Los Angeles Times celebrity reporter Denise Martin, Yuhas first served as a combat medic with the United States Army and transferred to the United States Marine Corps, serving as a legal officer.

Yuhas sustained a spine injury while on active duty that ended his military career.

Biographical information from his personnel file shows he entered the military in Los Angeles and his home of record at the time of his entry and exit from active duty was in Malibu, California.

His awards include the Bronze Star Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, the Army Commendation Medal with Silver Oak Leaf Cluster, the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters, two Army and one Marine Corps Good Conduct Medals, the Air Assault Badge and other awards qualification badges.

Yuhas was also awarded the Combat Medical Badge and the Expert Field Medical Badge.

This was an anti-gay marriage law which passed in 2000.

He appeared on several national and international television programs to discuss his support.

During an appearance on Larry King Live, Yuhas said that his support for the measure was not because it was about being gay, but because it is the right of the people in a state to decide important issues such as who should be married.

Yuhas says he is a "strict constructionist" with regard to issues of law and the United States Constitution.

He agrees with United States Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia.

Further, on his radio program and during television appearances he supported the nominations of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito (both appointed by George W. Bush).

Yuhas wrote: "If gays believe that the line between gay marriage and heterosexual marriage is arbitrary and baseless, why then should there be any line at all? Either society has a right to set limits and standards on marriage or it doesn't. I think it does, and I think that the line should be drawn where it always has been: and that is to say that marriage is a heterosexual institution."

His first duty station was in Babenhausen, Germany (returned to the German government in 2007) and his last was Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, a large Marine Corps installation about 50 miles north of San Diego, CA.

Yuhas was co-chair of Gays for Proposition 22 and supported California's Proposition 22.

In November 2008, Yuhas lent his name and financial support to anti-marriage forces and is listed as a contributor to the Yes on 8 campaign in the amount of $27,500.

Yuhas openly rejects the civil rights argument of gay and lesbian people.

"If you have to go out of your way and tell people that you are gay or somebody thinks that you're feminine or whatever, well, I'm sorry, that's not the same as being a black guy who has to face the horrors of racism every day of his life in some places."

He goes further by saying that LGBT individuals cannot be compared to the African American civil rights struggle because being black is "immutable," but you cannot look at a person and know they are gay.

Yuhas has been berated by gay advocacy groups for saying things like that and even had to fend off a formal Federal Communications Commission (FCC) complaint for using alleged homophobic slurs over the public airwaves.

The latter complaint was because Yuhas has a sometimes-segment on his program called the "Extraordinary Gay Update" where he urges gay people not to use words that "we demand others purge from their vocabulary" as we use the words about ourselves.

Yuhas said on his program and in the Los Angeles Jewish Journal that he voted for the "best candidate" and supported Hillary Clinton during the 2008 presidential election.

On his program on October 4, 2009, he was accused of being a "shill for Israel" and a blogger wrote that Yuhas' frequent guests of Israeli officials, make him unable to be objective on the issue.

Yuhas responded by telling the listener that he does not pretend to be objective and has a "vested interest" in the survival of the Israeli state.

Yuhas is a member of Sinai Temple, a synagogue located in the affluent Beverly Glen area of Los Angeles.

Yuhas has also said, "I reject the notion of the removal of chaplains from the military, but I am positively opposed to a chaplain recruiting from a captive audience, only to have his conversions become fodder for The Baptist Press' recruiting efforts," Yuhas wrote in The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles.

His support for Israel and the Israel Defense Forces is often in conflict when one considers Yuhas served in the United States military, but seems to side more with Israel than the United States.

After winning the Iowa Straw Poll in 2011 Yuhas told his radio audience that he gave a political contribution to Michele Bachmann, despite her open hostility to the LGBT community and her husband's role in "curing" LGBT people through his health clinic.

Yuhas came out on July 1, 2012, after the Supreme Court handed down the decision in the Affordable Care Act and lambasted Chief Justice John Roberts and the opinion he drafted as an "end to the way America used to be."

He further said that the decision "eroded the way the Founding Fathers thought the Courts of the country should operate" and that the Congress should "reign them in."

His barbs were not left there as he opined in an opinion column in the San Francisco Chronicle that the House of Representatives should, "Reverse this decision because John Roberts handed the Republican members a gift by declaring this monster a tax. Taxes must start in the House of Representatives, they must be continued in the House and no Congress can bind the hands of another."

He finished by telling GOP members to "kill this thing now."

When pressed by a caller for his choice for the GOP nomination to oppose President Barack Obama in 2012, Yuhas said, "So long as the GOP nominates somebody that can beat President Obama, I'm good."

In June 2015, the Washington Post published an article about wealthy Californians balking at water use cuts in a wealthy neighborhood.

Yuhas' quotes were featured in the title and "We're not all equal when it comes to water" became a tagline on every news outlet in America.