Ellen DeGeneres is engaged.  On the same day California's Supreme Court overturned the state's gay marriage ban, Ellen made the announcement Thursday, on The Ellen DeGeneres Show: she and her partner Portia de Rossi (Arrested Development) are getting married.  DeGeneres and de Rossi have been going out for quite some time, and when Ellen announced the news in front of her audience, they cheered wildly.  Portia was in the crowd as well.  Whatever, if any, controversy this creates, Ellen is used to it.  Ellen famously "came out" on national television via her prime time sitcom (entitled “Ellen,” of course), endured a bizarre relationship with former lesbian (and possible wacko) Anne Heche, and has been as open as anyone about being gay in Hollywood.

Ellen told The Advocate yesterday, “I'm thrilled that the California Supreme Court overturned the ban on gay marriage.  I can't wait to get married. We all deserve the same rights, and I believe that someday…not allowing gays to marry will seem as absurd as not allowing women to vote.”

Gay marriage has become a hot-button issue in this country.  It shouldn't be.  Why people who are anti-gay marriage care so much about an issue that effects in absolutely no way is beyond me.   Tell me, if you are against the idea of gay marriage, how your life would change if every gay couple who wanted to, got married tomorrow.  It wouldn't, so why not let people who want to get married, get married?

I like that last part of Ellen's quote.  In time, hopefully, people will look back at the opposition to gay marriage as an absurdity.  There is still a vast uncomfortable reaction to gay people in this country from a significant amount of the populous.  It has improved in this information age we find ourselves in, but it's still not what it should be. 

Anyway, good for Ellen and Portia and anyone else in the state of California who can now get married legally.  Feel free to debate this topic in the space below.  Disagree with anything you want, but I ask you to do me a favor: please don't bring religion into it.


-Oscar Dahl, BuddyTV Senior Writer
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