John McCain believes that marriage should be legal only for couples containing exactly one man and one woman. And, by golly, he’ll be on the Ellen DeGeneres show today to tell her all about this unique philosophical position!
Ellen, who on the very day that the California Supreme Court overturned the ban against same-sex marriage last week confessed her intention to marry her girlfriend, the delicious former Arrested Development star Portia de Rossi, respectfully disagreed with her Republican guest in true smartypants style.
McCain: “I just believe the unique status
of marriage between and man and a woman. And I know that we have a
respectful disagreement on that issue.”
Ellen: "Mmm-hmm…yeah, I mean, that it is looked
at — and some people are saying the same — that blacks and women did
not have the right to vote. I mean, women just got the right to vote in
1920. Blacks didn’t have the right to vote until 1870 and it just feels
like there’s this old way of thinking that we are not all the same. We
are all the same people, all of us. You’re no different than I am. Our
love is the same…When someone says, ‘You can have a contract, and
you’ll still have insurance, and you’ll get all that,’ it sounds to me
like saying, ‘Well, you can sit there, you just can’t sit there.’…It
feels like we are not, you know, we aren’t owed the same things and the
same wording.”McCain: “Well, I’ve heard you articulate that position in a very eloquent fashion. We just have a disagreement. And I, along with many, many others, wish you every happiness.”
Ellen: “So, you’ll walk me down the aisle? Is that what you’re saying?”
McCain: “Touche.”
She let him off the hook while still making her point. Ellen’s sly like that.
Meanwhile in other same-sex celebrity news, Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon still appears to have cold feet about marrying her girlfriend, education activist Christine Marinoni. They live in New York, it’s true, but California doesn’t have a residency requirement for marriages so they could still get married here if they wanted to, though New York might not recognize and grant full legal rights to their union.
You know who’s really going to do it up right, though? George Takei! That’s right! Sulu from the original Star Trek has a big ol’ announcement on the index page of his Web site that he is going to marry the hell out of his partner, Brad Altman, as soon as is humanly possible. There’s a man who really enjoys asserting his rights!
