Oh My Dion! Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi's Marriage Is Over!

[GoldenLeaf]

The talk queen reacts to Proposition 8.

 

Ellen Degeneres and Portia de Rossi's marriage is over after two months. At least that's longer than the two weeks Eddie Murphy and Tracey Edmonds lasted. But while Eddie's marriage collapsed under hasty decision making, showing just how lightly marriage is treated by some people who it's available to, Ellen's marriage got canned because Proposition 8 passed in California.

 

The legislation, which was also supported in Arizona and Florida, prohibits same-sex marriage. Illegal same-sex marriages. Sigh, that takes me back. Before same-sex marriage was legalized in Canada, there was a lot of, "What's next? People marrying their dog?" As of press time, it was still illegal to marry your dog.

 

On Thursday, Ellen posted congratulations for Barack Obama on her website, alongside her feelings about having her relationship trivialized. "I was saddened beyond belief," she wrote. "Here we just had a giant step toward equality and then on the very next day, we took a giant step away. I believe one day a 'ban on gay marriage' will sound totally ridiculous. In the meantime, I will continue to speak out for equality for all of us."

 

Fellow power lez Melissa Etheridge posted her bewilderment on The Daily Beast. "I am taking [the results] to mean I do not have to pay my state taxes because I am not a full citizen," she wrote. "I mean that would just be wrong, to make someone pay taxes and not give them the same rights, sounds sort of like that taxation without representation thing from the history books."

 

Alas, this outcome doesn't mean Melissa's money family will be leaving California and moving to Canada. "We love this state, we love this country and we are not going to leave it," she writes. "Even though we could be married in Mass. or Conn., Canada, Holland, Spain and a handful of other countries, this is our home."

 

Lindsay Lohan's girlfriend, Samantha Ronson, was baffled that people supported new legislation to improve living conditions for chickens while taking human rights away. "I guess people care more about farm animals than they do their fellow man," she wrote on her MySpace. "That's really sad to me. Yes, I am glad that the chickens will have more room and better conditions as they wait to die, but I just think it's frightening that people show more compassion for tomorrow's dinner than for the chef."

 

Famous loudmouth Rosie O'Donnell has been uncharacteristically quiet on the subject. When asked via her website what she thought would happen to same-sex couples who had been married, she wrote only, "the marriages will be annulled/ and no longer valid/ in the eyes of the law / like mine was years ago." When Rosie the Crusader is resigned to failure, that's pretty disheartening. Notice that there aren't any gay male celebrities speaking out about this. George Takei, much better known as Sulu on Star Trek, told Us Weekly how upset he was about his marriage to his partner of 21 years being called into question, but George Takei isn't exactly an Ellen. The power gays need to come out now more than ever.

[KimboCosmo]

Holy crap...I'm moving to Canada for sure.

 

This is B.S.

[Libeck528]

I am really disappointed in California!

The US is never going to have gay marriage approved though...

Back and forth back and forth

[Allie]

that is so f-ed up...just...god. normally I love living in cali, but this makes me ashamed.

[Libeck528]

Yeah I love saying I am from California, but now...

It is strange because California is usually a liberally populated state

Just goes to show that gay people are not considered equal by either party!

 

What is so wrong with gay people? REALLY?????!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

[Allie]

Yeah I love saying I am from California, but now...

It is strange because California is usually a liberally populated state

Just goes to show that gay people are not considered equal by either party!

 

What is so wrong with gay people? REALLY?????!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

 

i know! if any state could get the law passed, i would've thought it would be CA. this is just sickening though, back and forth, back and forth. and so damn frustrating. like, I'm straight but I am a HUGE supporter of gay rights - I just don't get why they should be discriminated against. it's not far at all and I hate it.

[KimboCosmo]

Because you know it's only right if it is a woman and a man...

 

 

[ThisTime]

The fact that Prop 8 got passed makes me SO mad. Oh my Dion. There aren't words.

There just aren't. :angry: :angry: :angry:

[Libeck528]

Yeah but if the people use religious reasons for not permitting gay marriage then athesists should nt allowed to be married either!

 

Religion is not meant to be used to HURT other people!

I am so sick of people dragging a religions name or prophet through the mud and using them to promote their own personal feelings!

 

That is not what its FOR!!!!!!!!!

[KimboCosmo]

It's no different than Hitler killing all people who didn't have blue eyes and blonde hair either...

 

Discrimination is discrimination...no matter which way you put it.

[Libeck528]

OMG Kim that is funny you said that!

I am taking a class on the Holocaust and we were just talking about that!

I have a hate pyramid that a lecutrer gave out and all of the steps leading to another event like the Holocaust have almost been fulfilled with gay driscrimination!

 

You know more so than the gay marriage issue is the fact that people think they have a right to tell people that they can't have children. Like the bans on gay adoption! THAT IS SOOOO COMPLETELY RIDICULOUS!

[Libeck528]

"There is nothing that unites people together than a hate for another people."

 

America is a country that can only function with prejudice and discrimination against a group of people!

Black

Women

Jewish

Gay

 

So ridiculous!

[KimboCosmo]

Yeah, so instead of letting an amazing gay couple adopt children, they would rather make them live their lives in an orphanage or in foster care being passed from home to home, and possibly being abused along the way. THAT makes a whole lot of damn sense.

 

This country is so effed up...

Edited November 8, 2008 at 04:59 AM by KimboCosmo

[Libeck528]

Yeah and in some places you can't be gay and a teacher!

Really?!?!?!

Why?

[Allie]

Yeah and in some places you can't be gay and a teacher!

Really?!?!?!

Why?

 

I didn't know that until I heard Tuesday Morning by Melissa Etheridge:

Even though he could not marry

Or teach your children in our schools

Because who he wants to love

Is breaking your God's rules

He stood up on a Tuesday Morning

In the terror he was brave

And he made his choice and without a doubt

A hundred lives he must have saved

(live performance from her Lucky Live DVD [which I have watched almost as much as Celine's A New Day DVD lol]

...I remember her talking about that song, she said she wrote it in the shower bawling her head off)

 

Yeah, a little OT there, sorry. It's just so effed up that people are discriminated because of LOVE. I cannot even wrap my head around it. Also, I was just reading my Livejournal flist and came across this: http://theinated.livejournal.com/164657.html

 

Edited November 8, 2008 at 07:17 AM by Allie

[Jacqui]

If two men or two women want to marry one another, it's nobody's business but their own. People should stop worrying about what other people do in their bedrooms and think about their own lives.

This is pathetic. It is discrimination. How can it be justified?

How come it's ok for people who aren't in love to get married so that one of them can move to another country? How come it's ok for a man to marry a woman and then abuse her? How come it's ok for a straight couple to marry and then cheat on each other? But it's wrong for a loving, faithful gay couple to be married?

It's not even about the holy sacrament of Marriage, even athiests get married. It's about legal rights.

I know I'm in a minority with my opinion, being a Christian, but if God feels as strongly anti-gay as some of the people in this world, I have a lot of questions for him.

Why? People don't choose to be gay the way they choose to commit a crime. Even straight people don't pick who they fall for. I imagine most gay people would find it much easier and less controversial to be straight. But they can't.

I feel bad for even saying this, but after reading more than half way through the Bible, there is a lot of questionable stuff in there. It says you're not supposed to eat certain foods on certain days of the week (but everyone conveniently ignores that, right?) It says that the worst thing a man can do is still better than the best thing a woman can do. (Uhh not true.) It says do not kill, and in the next verse God is instructing his people to fight wars that claim thousands of innocent lives.

And I have rambled on quite a bit. I really hate this though, I have A LOT of gay friends and I'd like to see them enjoy the same happiness as anyone else. My whole family is quite stubbornly anti-gay and it makes me so mad.

But on the (very small) bright side, at least they had a beautiful special day they'll remember forever, and I'm sure that commitment they made will still mean something in their hearts. *Sigh.*

Edited November 8, 2008 at 08:41 AM by Jacqui

[Libeck528]

Well said Jacqui!

 

I agree with you so much about the conviently ignored portions of the bible! And the questionable parts and the absolutely incorrect parts!

Like I said people use religion to fight their issues way too often!

[Krys]

ah you are right Beckie. you should see those extremists here in Malaysia they're getting crazier by the day...not talking about just the Christian extremists lol. those Islam ones are just

[ticktock]

I just don't really understand the homophobic obsession in America, i mean you have abortion, kids being killed by guns, gangs, drugs, corrupt politicians, corporate fraud, crumbling economy and so on .... Yet America makes time to discriminate gay people!!!! Why not tackle the larger issues in society?? Hell i'd understand it a bit more if the voters would practice what they preach but no, there is abortion available to anyone in the US, shops are open on Sundays , people eat shellfish , people having sex before marriage and teenage pregnancies and so on . And yet people use the bible as the basis for discrimination against gay people!!! Edited November 8, 2008 at 06:42 PM by ticktock

[Bradders]

Why does Prop. 8 even exist!!!!!

[VintageCeline]

Everyone should be equal.

 

Race/Gender/Colour/Size doesn't matter.

 

"Land of the free....." Really??

 

x

[Jeremy H.]

That is terrible.I hate the way that people are and how the world is.I am so sad for Ellen.Why can't people just be free to love and be with who they want to be with.

[I Surrender]

Absolutely Ridiculous. She should move to Holland.

[Célinefull]

makes me sick.

[takeachance]

I dont get it, they are married, they got married, deed is done.

[KimboCosmo]

I dont get it, they are married, they got married, deed is done.

 

The law basically cancels their marriage.

[nano]

[takeachance]

Ok, that is so s***! That they cancelled their marriage. What the heck?! That is just f***** up!!!

 

Wonder can the new president do anything???

[Jeremy H.]

 

That was very well said.I think that everyone should see that.

[Libeck528]

Good job Keith