Clint Eastwood speaks out with respect to gay marriage… TGO
Refer to story below. Source: Reuters
By Brent Lang | Reuters
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – He won’t be riding the main float during Pride, but Clint Eastwood doesn’t care if same-sex couples get married.
In the October issue of GQ Magazine, the steely gazed slab of machismo says he doesn’t think gay marriage should be such a controversial issue.
“These people who are making a big deal about gay marriage?” Eastwood tells the magazine. “I don’t give a fuck about who wants to get married to anybody else! Why not?! We’re making a big deal out of things we shouldn’t be making a deal out of … Just give everybody the chance to have the life they want.”
The Oscar-winning director is promoting “J. Edgar,” his biopic about J. Edgar Hoover, the controversial longtime FBI chief, who many suspected to be closeted.
Leonardo DiCaprio, who stars as the bureau chief, also thinks that the gay marriage debate has been overblown.
“That’s the most infuriating thing — watching people focus on these things,” DiCaprio told GQ. “Meanwhile, there’s the onset of global warming and these incredibly scary and menacing things with the future of our economy.”
Though DiCaprio is a prominent supporter of liberal causes and candidates, Eastwood is known as one of Hollywood’s few Republicans. However, he maintains that his attitude is in keeping with his political beliefs.
“I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21, because he promised to get us out of the Korean War,” Eastwood tells the magazine. “And over the years, I realized there was a Republican philosophy that I liked. And then they lost it. And libertarians had more of it. Because what I really believe is, let’s spend a little more time leaving everybody alone.”
“J. Edgar” hits theaters on November 9. It’s written by Dustin Lance Black (“Milk”), an openly gay screenwriter who has been active in the marriage equality movement.
The Republican Party of Eisenhower and Eastwood is about as dead as Lincoln’s and Teddy Roosevelt’s.
Forget about Lincoln and Roosevelt, but for all intents and purposes, so is Reagan’s – needless to say, Kennedy’s Dem Party is dead too. Where does that leave us? Obviously, just like the Miami Dolphins of today (it is football season again so I feel my comment is seasonally appropo), are not the
17 and 0 Dolphins of yesteryear, this America is not the great America it was. That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.
For the next 14 months America will have a number of politicians of both parties vying to take away Obama’s seat in the White House. All the time that these candidates spend speaking about gay rights to just about anything including marriage and adoption, and for that matter, the time they spend speaking about women’s rights to abortion, religion, and a few other select issues, will be such a waste of time and energy by the people that in one way or another, are supposed to be this country’s leaders, and make no mistake about it, they will spend time doing just that. These are the people that are supposed be completely focused on America’s economy, on America’s educational future of it’s youth, on America’s health concerns of it’s people – go figure.
To add to Eastwood’s words of wisdom, I believe that gay people should have the right, as do heterosexuals, to be miserable by getting married, leading to their rights, to get divorced, as do heterosexuals!