Ellen Degeneres flexes market muscle to combat Sarah Palin, Proposition 8 [video]
”I don’t know if you saw this, but vice presidential candidate Governor Sarah Palin says that she’s in favor of a Federal ban on gay marriage. Basically, she wants to change the Constitution. So, if you’re wondering — I’m sure you are — how I feel about this, I don’t like it. I don’t like it. I don’t agree…. And maybe it’s because I’m gay that I think we should all be equal, but, um, I feel that we’re all equal. And I don’t know what people are scared of. You know, maybe they think that their children will be influenced. And I gotta say, I was raised by two heterosexuals, I was surrounded by heterosexuals — just everywhere I looked: heterosexuals. And they did not influen — I mean, I dabbled in high school, who didn’t? … People are gonna be who they’re gonna be, and we need to learn to love them for who they are and let them love who they want to love.”
Talk show host Ellen Degeneres on the set of her TV program speaking about Sarah Palin‘s public admission on the 700 Club that she wishes to have a Federal ban on gay marriage but then immediately expressed that she wasn’t going to sit in judgment of anyone. Degeneres, of course, famously married her long-time girlfriend, Portia de Rossi, earlier this year when California’s Supreme Court concluded that same-sex marriages be made legal on the grounds that it is a civil rights issue. (NY Daily News)
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