Ellen DeGeneres Squares Off With McCain On Gay Marriage
WASHINGTON — Republican John McCain says same-sex couples should be allowed to enter into legal agreements for insurance and other purposes, but he opposes gay marriage and believes in “the unique status of marriage between a man and a woman.”
“And I know that we have a respectful disagreement on that issue,” the likely Republican presidential nominee said in an interview to air Thursday on “The Ellen DeGeneres show.”
McCain, who also opposes an amendment to the Constitution to ban same-sex unions, said people should be encouraged to enter into legal agreements, particularly for insurance and other areas where decisions need to be made.
DeGeneres needled McCain on the issue, arguing that she and the senator from Arizona aren’t different.
Last week, after the California Supreme Court cleared the way for gay marriage in that state, DeGeneres announced on her program her engagement to longtime girlfriend Portia de Rossi.
“We are all the same people, all of us. You’re no different than I am. Our love is the same,” she said. “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,” DeGeneres said.
McCain said he’s heard her “articulate that position in a very eloquent fashion. We just have a disagreement. And I, along with many, many others, wish you every happiness.”
DeGeneres steered the conversation back toward the humor she’s known for.
“So, you’ll walk me down the aisle? Is that what you’re saying?” she asked.
“Touche,” McCain said.
I just don’t understand why people want to push their way of life on others, we are what we are and we feel what we feel, if we were all the same it would be a pretty boring world. I don’t care for the fact that people who are in television want to beat up on people who feel different. I wonder if Ellen would mind having a show on both and try to keep an open mind/forum.
Let them get married. It doesn’t matter. God doesn’t recognize it anyway as it is clearly stated.
Here is an idea, stop calling it gay marriage and start lobbying for equal treatment under the law. I, for one thing, think that anybody that is in a committed loving relationship with another human being, should be allowed equal protection under the law. The overwhelming theme of protest here is about marriage. Take away the word and I think you take away a good 25 -50% of the opposition.
The theme should be, “I want to protect my loved on like you protect yours!” Who can argue with that.
I don’t mind civil unions…that is a legal title. However, a marriage is a religious rite and right. I am sick and tired of the PC movement moving in on my religious beliefs and forcing my children to sit through hours of “I Have Two Mommies” at school story time. If the gay movement wants legal rights to claim and state that they are in a legally binding relationship…WHO CARES. Let them do what they want. Just don’t force it down my throat or my children’s…that I will not abide. I like Ellen. In fact, my wife and I watch her every day and find her quite entertaining. Today, however, I found her to be no better than an unscrupulous media hog trying to blindside McCain into giving her a public “Gay Marriage” endorsement in fear of losing constituents. Shame on Ellen for using her show as a personal sabotage against McCains campaign and to advance the gay marriage movement. In fact, I rate this one up with Rosie O’Donnell’s tirade on one of her final shows before she was CANCELLED. SHAME ON HER!!!!!
For all of you that say he needs to make up his mind stop and think for a second. If McCain stated that he was total against any kind of Gay union right he would be called a raciest, bigot and every other nice world the left could throw at him. My guess is that he totally disagrees with it all but he also wants to be the President of the United States. What he is saying is I don’t agree with it but I will respect your choice. Is that not the same thing that the Common Laws that most states have for people who just live together do. Anyway you have to look at the big picture on this.
Redefining marriage is not good for families or for children. Continue to take your proper stand Senator McCain.
Those living a homosexual lifestyle are pushing to redefine marriage now, but who will be next? The cult from Texas would say that polygamy is acceptable and if you redefine marriage for homosexuals, who can argue that it can’t be redefined for polygamy.
Our countries Founding Fathers had no intention of the Constitution being so screwed up.
They had God in their lives EVERY SINGLE DAY not just Sundays when they were running for election/reelection like it is with politicians today. The disgusting practice/choice of homosexuality is becoming normalized as an “alternative lifestyle”.
What happens when it’s an alternative lifestyle for the 40 year old adult to have sex with the 15 year old child? Can’t happen you say? Forty years ago all this homosexual activity was kept private for a reason. It’s an abomination. It’s unnatural.
I agree that this issue should only be dealt with under law in a legal manner. The law should not be determining what is or is not religiously acceptable that is up to the Church.
I think the Christian Church should copyright the word marriage and not allow churches to use its word without its meaning.
Legal unions…that seems perfectly fair. Gay marriage is a perversion of the law of God…
and that is God of every unified Christian Church.
If man can just make up the rules of the Church and define what is or is not moral…what then I must ask is the point in believing.
Next we will have laws for Group mariages, young children, and dont let me suggest any other examples….I would hate to give someone an idea..haha
I LOVE Ellen - she is not only funny but a wonderfully spirited person. I wish she were my neighbor or best friend! I totally support her and any others of the gay community that wish to marry. She said it best with “our love is the same.”
We need to celebrate love…
Our language has only one word for love. In the Hebrew and Greek there are words describing the differant forms of love: That which is Physical (animal, sexual etc), Brotherly (Friendship, admiration, fondness etc) and Agape ( The kind of Love God has for us which is for our best, and for that He willingly gave the sacrifice of His Only Begotten Son). It is a self-sacrificial kind of love, not a self-satisfying kind of love. This is the kind of Love God requires in Marriage. Because of one’s ignorance of God’s Word, and His ways, and not wanting to know what He would say, we are often led into sin just like Eve: “Hath God truly said?” Let’s let God speak clearly, and Love God with all our Hearts, Mind, and strength.
I have a brother who is living in a gay relationship. I love Him. He is my brother and I am His sister. We visited him and his partner last week, and the love they have between them is not agape, but is a true Brotherly (Philadelphia) love in which they have added eros. I believe that when we don’t understand the difference, the Good can be twisted and prevent us from what is best. I am praying that they will one day experience and enjoy what I believe God had intended for their friendship, and with that be free to liberate others. It may not mean not being best friends, but Truly Best Friends, for each others BEST.