Ellen and McCain: A Gay Ol' Time

Leave it to Ellen DeGeneres to diffuse what could have been a tense moment between herself and Sen. John McCain on the topic of gay marriage ... with a proposal, of sorts.


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61. Ellen Rocks!!!!! She's such a classy gal!!

Posted at 1:01AM on May 23rd 2008 by Mony

62.
Well, there is no way to reproduce without a third party involved, when there is two males or two females. This seems very unnatural to me. When two males, or two females are able to reproduce, without anyone else involved, then I will say that I was very wrong, and please excuse me for being so stupid.

Marriage was invented by the human race to identify which children belonged to which particular parents. Gay marriage makes a mockery of marriage, because gay parents can not reproduce without a third party to produce a child. This is just biology. I've have known both gay male and female persons, and have no problems with them. I do believe that gay couples - SHOULD NOT HAVE CHILDREN! Sorry, but that is what I believe.

Posted at 1:43AM on May 22nd 2008 by KATRINA'S GRANDMOM

63. Well katrinas grandmom

get ready to take back your statement, because soon with science they will be able to turn female eggs into a semen that with make lesbian women able to have a child with just the too of them. And i promise with science they will have pregnant men within 100 years....without a third party egg. Im sorry you dont keep up on the latest scientific journals, but its true.

Posted at 1:50AM on May 22nd 2008 by HRHKAT

64. I want no part of Larry's God, thank you.

Posted at 1:57AM on May 22nd 2008 by Not fond of closeted haters

65. Grandmother of Katrina, because lesbians and gays can't have children is the reason they shouldn't marry? So straight men and women that are unable to have children for various medical reasons should not be allowed to marry either? What about women that go through menopause or get hysterectomies? Should their husbands divorce them since these women can no longer have children? 13 year old girls and boys are able to produce children, should they be allowed to marry each other at that age because of that?

Posted at 1:55AM on May 22nd 2008 by Hahaha

66. Ellen, I am so Happy for you that you decided to get married. The greated thing a couple could ever do and now the California legalized it, you can take part in that and have a real ceremony. I am a gay man and I wish I could do what you are doing. I cannot seem to find someone decent here, they desire me but I dont feel the same. I would love the feeling of getting married. Ellen, your getting the chance of a lifetime, a chance to be a part of someone for the rest of your life and I stand behind you 100%. Good Luck Ellen. From LCO, Buffalo NY

Posted at 2:34AM on May 22nd 2008 by Lee Oosterhoudt

67. To No# 11. " Larry" FIRST OF ALL ....DO YOUR HOMEWORK......The same trash garbage you are spewring is the same TRASH THEY USED TO DENY BLACK PEOPLE TO MARRY....YOU HEARD ME....NOT A BLACK MAN AND A WHITE WOMAN....BLACK PEOPLE IN GENERAL WERE DENIED THE RIGHT TO MARRY, AND " REASONS" WERE THE SAME THEN AS THEY ARE NOW AGAINST GAYS!! AND THE LYING HEATHENS WHO CALLED THEMSELVES CHRISTIANS ( WHO OBVIOUSLY KNEW NOTHING ABOUT BEING A CHRISTIAN) USED THE BIBLE TO SUPPORT THEIR AGENDA IN PREVENTING BLACKS FROM THE RIGHTS AND THE FREEDOM TO MARRY!! While I do NOT believe the definition of Marriage should be changed, GAY PEOPLE NOT ONLY SHOULD HAVE THE SAME RIGHTS BUT BY OUR CONSTITUTION ARE OWED THE SAME RIGHTS....AND ANY AMERICAN THAT CANNOT SEE THAT, SHOULD TAKE THEMSELVES TO ANOTHER COUNTRY!! The entire struggle to " change the definition of Marriage" is POINTLESS, 1. Because it's not going to happen!! 2. BECAUSE I COULD CARE LESS HOW IT'S WORDED, AS LONG AS GAY PEOPLE ARE NOT DENIED THEIR EQUAL RIGHTS OWED TO THEM AS ALL AMERICANS!! You see HETEROSEXUAL PEOPLE PROVING EVERYDAY MORE THAN EVER, THAT THE WORDING MEANS NOTHING WHEN PEOPLE DON'T BELEIEVE IN IT!! THE VOWS!! WE HAVE THE HIGHEST DIVORCE RATE IN HISTORY!! SURELY NOTHING TO DO WITH GAY PEOPLE!! STRAIGHT PEOPLE CAN'T SEEM TO STAY MARRIED LONGER THAN A FEW YEARS!! DIVORCE FOR SOOOOOO MANY PEOPLE IS LIKE SIMPLY GOING BUY ANOTHER PAIR OF SHOES!! YOUR TRASH TALK ABOUT THE " FAMILY VALUE" , GONE ARE THE DAYS OF MY GRANDPARENTS AND MY PARENTS WHO STAYED TOGETHER AND GOT THROUGH IT ALL UNTIL THE END!! YOU PEOPLE WHO TALK THIS WAY ABOUT " PROTECTING THE SANCTITY OF MARRIAGE" REALLY IF YOU KNEW , YOU WOULD NOT SPEAK SUCH FOOLISHNESS!! !! I DO BELIEVE THAT HATEFUL EVIL PEOPLE CAN COME BACK TO GOD IF THEY WANT TO!! THERE ARE SOOOOO MANY OF YOU OUT THERE THAT REALLY SHOULD TURN BACK TO CHRIST!! AND ABANDON YOUR EVIL HATEFUL WAYS!! REMEMBER......>>> GOD DOESN'T LIKE UGLY!! AND YOU WILL ANSWER FOR YOUR JUDJMENTS UPON OTHERS!! GOD BLESS US ALL!! OH AND LARRY....DUDE, DON''T WASTE YOUR TIME, BECAUSE I WILL NOT RESPOND TO ANYTHING YOU HAVE TO SAY!! YOU HEARD ( AS ALL THE OTHERS THAT GOD WANTS TO HEAR THIS MESSAGE) WHAT YOU DO WITH IT, IS YOUR CHOICE!! GOD SAYS WE ARE BORN OF A FREE WILL!! JUST REMEMBER, IT DOESN'T MAKE YOU RIGHT!! AND JUDGING SOMEONE ELSE DOES NOT MAKE YOU A CHRISTIAN IN NO WAY WHATSOEVER!! FOR ALL THOSE WHO HATE JUDGE AND CONDEMN, YOU NEED PRAYERS!! AND YOU NEED TO PRAY!! JUDGMENT DAY WILL COME FOR ALL OF US, AND WE BETTER ALL MAKE SURE WE DO OUR BEST TO GET THROUGH THIS LIFE KNOWING WE DID THE BEST WE COULD!! BECAUSE WHEN YOU BOW AT HIS FEET ( AND WE ALL WILL, EVEN THOSE WHO ARE GOING TO HELL, THAT WILL DIE A SECOND DEATH WILL BOW AT HIS FEET AND ANSWER FOR YOUR LIFE) YOU PEOPLE WHO ARE CALLING YOURSELVES " CHRISTIANS" BETTER REALIZE THAT GOD WILL WANT TO KNOW WHY YOU JUDGED YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS AND HATED AND CONDEMNED THEM WHEN THEY DID NOTHING TO HURT YOU!! WHAT SHAME WILL OVER COME YOU!! YOU WILL HAVE NO WORDS TO OFFER HIM AS HE ALREADY KNOWS YOUR HEART!! HE WILL NOT LISTEN TO UUUUH UUUUH....YOU WILL HAVE TO PROVIDE AN ANSWER!! ONE TO WICH YOU WILL NOT HAVE!! FOR HE SAYS " LOVE ONE ANOTHER" " YOU ARE YOUR BROTHERS KEEPER" JUDGE NOT"!! GOD HAVE MERCY ON YOU ALL!! GAY HATERS ARE NO DIFFERENT THAN THE MONSTEROUS RACIST!! I LOVE ALL, EVEN THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE FILLED WITH HATE, AND I TRULY DO PRAY FOR MY ENIMIES!! ( I Don't have any personal enimies) GOD BLESS US ALL!!

Posted at 3:05AM on May 22nd 2008 by Love one another!! You are your Brothers Keeper!!

68. John McCain is a disgrace to the conservative party. The only reason he runs as a republican is because he supports the military and he knows as a democrat, he would NEVER get elected supporting the military. Republicans didn't elect him to represent our party, democrats and independents who were allowed to vote in the republican primaries are the reason he is there. He is a phony Republican and should really be representing the Democrats if he was really an honest man, which he isn't. I have no dog in this fight, that is for sure. Just another evil democrat in disguise.

Posted at 4:00AM on May 22nd 2008 by Democrats are evil

69. McCain has an antiquated and embarrassingly back water ideology - If he can explain to me exactly how anyone's sexual orientation, race, sex or religion wholly defines any person in a concise and intellectual manner I will listen - but to repeat "we respectfully disagree" instead of delivering a proven, tested and re-tested scientific reason as to why one human being loving another is wrong - well, he then remains a holier than thou, un-cultivated and good ol' boy bumpkin minded American,
Ellen was articulate and light hearted - she made perfect sense without any attempt to be argumentative.
I am a straight female and was brought up Catholic and being a Christian has always meant to me "Love thy fellow woman and man". Period.
I hope Ellen and Portia make it out to Vancouver one day - where same sex marriages have been legal for years.
Let us concentrate on the contents of one's heart above anything else ... Live and let live, Take care of your own business before wasting so much energy on everybody else's.
I have a dream ....

Posted at 4:03AM on May 22nd 2008 by EqualRights4Peace

70. I'm sorry Mr. McCain feels so strongly about not excepting gays, I am not Gay but my wonderful and kind Brother ened up Killing himself, due to views exactly like this. How can people be so cruel and hard hearted towards their fellow-humans, when they die for this country, pay high taxes and & don't want to be singled out, they simply want fair play! I'm tired of our leader's playing with a fixed deck and people's lives. Johnny

Posted at 4:08AM on May 23rd 2008 by Bugs

71.

Larry writes:
"In case no one realizes this, when a black person wakes up in the morning, they cannot choose to be a different color. "

Honey - - tell that to Michael Jackson.

Posted at 4:23AM on May 22nd 2008 by Pussyboy

72. Democrats are evil-- No one is allowed to vote in Republican Primaries unless they are REGISTERED REPUBLICANS. Not democrats. Not independent. Educate your judgmental, pompous a$$ before you crawl out of your safe cave and throw your words around

Posted at 4:25AM on May 22nd 2008 by SoRude

73. Hey Larry the Moron - civil and legal discrimination against a human being because of a fixed factor of who they are is the same. Men are born with penises between their legs, women are born with vaginas between their legs, caucasians are born with lighter skin, blacks are born with darker skin, the mentally ill are born with brain disability, the handicapped are born with physical disability, homosexuals are born with attraction to the same gender, heterosexuals are born with attraction to the opposite gender. And so on. People are born certain ways. It is not by action they take or do not take that dictates this. The United States has always striven, sometimes with greater success than at other times, to ensure legal equality for all human beings, however they are born.

Many homosexuals and heterosexuals do not embrace any "lifestyle." They may never have homosexual or hetereosexual physical intimacy: however, they know what they feel and what they are. And by the way, many heterosexual couples engage in what is simply assumed to be the primary act which defines a homosexual couple; and many homosexual couples do not. Many heterosexuals love with lifelong committment other heterosexuals of the same gender. Are they chosing to be gay because they are lifelong comparions but not sexual? And many homosexuals love with lifelong committment members of the opposite gender. Are they chosing to be straight because they are lifelong companions but not sexual? Ultimately, it comes down to equal respect for all individuals regardless of the shades of their different choices.

As for the issue of chosing to have gay sex - be careful Larry - because that means you believe there are millions of people who desire to pass for heterosexual who have simply chosen not to have gay sex and repress their natural desire. What you are actually implying is that sexuality is simply a choice - whether it be to chose homosexuality or heterosexuality. Do you believe you have simply chosen heterosexuality or is your attraction to women a matter of natural-born desire and impulse for you. If it is, then it is also a matter of natural-born desire for the homosexual too.

It is widely known fact that human beings who most greatly fixate on the sexual choices and desires of people with whom they are not engaged in sexual relations are, in fact, repressing those instincts themselves.

Posted at 4:28AM on May 22nd 2008 by cheeseandcrackers

74. Poor Larry - you basement dwelling ogre that most likely has seen neither a vagina nor a penis ,,, go back to World of Warcraft and whacking off to Barney and friends . You made my night mutt.

Posted at 4:31AM on May 22nd 2008 by EqualRights4Peace

75. Remember that there are a whole lot of people who believe that homosexuallity is a choice and I give credit for Mccain going on a show, knowing he was going to be put in ackward situation.

Posted at 4:38AM on May 22nd 2008 by your mom

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