Dear Ellen - I think your lifestyle choice is an abomination. Respectfully, Maverick.
May 22nd, 2008 8:48 pm by Kelly G.Just days after the California Supreme Court overturned the ban on gay marriage, Ellen DeGeneres invited John McCain to appear on her talk show and — rather amazingly — he agreed. At one point during the interview, which airs Thursday, DeGeneres said: “Let’s talk about the big elephant in the room.” She, of course, is that big elephant; DeGeneres recently made headlines by announcing her plan to wed longtime girlfriend Portia de Rossi, and McCain is anti-gay marriage. McCain responded: “I just believe in the unique status of marriage between a man and a woman and I know that we have a respectful disagreement on that issue.”
Shorter John McCain: We have a respectful disagreement as to whether your kind is fully human and deserving of basic rights.
Even shorter John McCain: Ewww! Butt sex and she-males!
It’s like the President of Gambia saying, “Hey you queers, no hard feelings, we just have a respectful disagreement as to whether you should be allowed to remain in the country without fear of losing yer fucking heads!!!1!!!1″
There’s nothing respectful about it. In fact, it’s fundamentally disrespectful, bigoted and prejudiced. John McCain is a homophobe who’s perfectly content in denying the GLBT population their Constitutional rights just because he thinks they’re icky. And attitudes such as Yahya Jammeh’s are the inevitable result of such open, unchallenged bigotry.
Ain’t nothing “mavericky” about that.
Good on Ellen, though!
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