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Elisabeth Hasselbeck favors same-sex marriage: “I am not ultra-ultra-conservative on every issue”

http://www.whyfame.com/gossip/2008/november/2/mccain_lovin_elisabeth_hasselbeck_did_she_get_death_threats_main_7211.jpgStrangest thing: Watching an encore episode of The View yesterday with Alec Mapa as guest host, I noticed America’s Gaysian Sweetheart getting along swimmingly with my least-favorite co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck.

Alec actually made her seem more human than usual and it was nice. I still disagree with just about everything that comes  out of her conservative mouth but I so noticed a softer side that I even commented about it on Facebook.

Now comes this: In an interview with Fancast.com, Elisabeth makes clear that she is in favor of gay marriage: “I am not ultra-ultra-conservative on every issue. I actually support gay marriage. I think the gay marriage thing would definitely surprise people. I mean, for some people, it will surprise them to the point that they won’t want to hear it. ‘No, that can’t be, I really want to have this sort of idea of her in my head,’ so I sort of rain on their parade there.”

Elisabeth PortiaPerhaps she has become more enlightened from last December when she wondered to guest Portia de Rossi if all this gay marriage stuff is just a matter of semantics: “Take men and women. Women want all the rights of men, but they’re not asking to be called men. Do you think…is the word [marriage] more important than the rights?”

Portia’s reply was superb: “No, of course the word isn’t more important than the rights. Without the word, we don’t have equal rights. … Every citizen of this country should have that legal right to be married. “Marriage the word actually does mean something because people who see a gay coupling as a lesser thing in society can continue to [think] it’s lesser than marriage when really it’s the exact same thing. The exact same love, the exact same commitment, love of family.”

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