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Drew Barrymore: 'What Defines a Family? We Do!' (at Prop 8 Rally Last Night in West Hollywood)
National Review Magazine ^ | 05/27 10:08 AM | [Maggie Gallagher]

Posted on 05/27/2009 10:03:22 AM PDT by lewisglad

This CBS News story is a snapshot of where the gay-marriage debate is taking us.

At a rally in West Hollywood, Drew Barrymore revived the old narrative that family structure doesn't matter:

"Children need families, people need to love and we need to move forward, not backward," Barrymore said. "What defines a family? We do!"

A rabbi calls the idea that marriage means a husband and wife "religious bigotry," i.e., not religious liberty.

The headline of the story is Ted Olson's decision to help bring a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Prop 8. I'm not sure the Human Rights Campaign is pleased.

Watch and see whether, after the publicity and the fundraising, this lawsuit disappears. (Is Anthony Kennedy really the fifth vote for a national constitutional right to gay marriage?)

Support for Prop 8 has also grown over the last few months: "A poll of 600 California voters by CBS Station KPIX said 56 percent agree with the Court's decision to uphold Proposition 8."

(Excerpt) Read more at corner.nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: aposty; caglbt; culturwar; homosexualagenda; prop8; religiousleft; samesexmarriage
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1 posted on 05/27/2009 10:03:23 AM PDT by lewisglad
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To: lewisglad

Well now that we have the talentless, Hollywood Skank opinion, let’s hear what NORMAL folks have to say.


2 posted on 05/27/2009 10:05:21 AM PDT by EyeGuy
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To: lewisglad

This is the person who should be making my moral decisions?

That’s worth a smile... I often do that when something preposterous is suggested.


3 posted on 05/27/2009 10:05:39 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama is mentally a child of ten. Just remember that when he makes statements and issues policy.)
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To: lewisglad

I used to support gay marriage to be honest but since I saw how intolerant they are I have changed my mind.
I guess I supported it to be PC ,but to be honest I am happy to see prop 8 upheld by the court


4 posted on 05/27/2009 10:07:06 AM PDT by lmarie373
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To: lewisglad

“Children need families, people need to love and we need to move forward, not backward,” Barrymore said.

And she has how many kids????


5 posted on 05/27/2009 10:07:06 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (http://ccwsaveslives.blogspot.com/)
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To: lewisglad

Sounds like Drew is drinking again.


6 posted on 05/27/2009 10:07:22 AM PDT by massmike
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To: lewisglad

She sure doesn’t look like Drew Barrymore and what is that skyblue eyeshadow underneath her eyes. The last time I saw something that wierd was a neighbor who thought she was a witch had drawn rectangles in black over her eyes and filled them in with white.


7 posted on 05/27/2009 10:08:24 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: lewisglad

California already gives every right and privilege IT (as a state) possibly can give to civil-union couples, EXCEPT the term “Marriage.”

In California, at least (unlike Florida, Arkansas, etc.), this fight is ALL about nomenclature.


8 posted on 05/27/2009 10:08:57 AM PDT by pogo101
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To: Red in Blue PA

Ok and two gays can make their own kids how?


9 posted on 05/27/2009 10:09:08 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: lewisglad

Is Drew Barrymore a ‘Stonecutter’?


10 posted on 05/27/2009 10:09:34 AM PDT by Carl LaFong (Experts say experts should be ignored.)
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To: freekitty

Oh Drew, sky blue eyeshadow is tacky no matter where you put it.


11 posted on 05/27/2009 10:09:44 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: massmike

Was it Drew that Flashed Letterman?


12 posted on 05/27/2009 10:10:01 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: lewisglad

Thats Drew Barrymore?


13 posted on 05/27/2009 10:10:51 AM PDT by svcw (The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God ... is knowing you need it.)
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To: lewisglad

So says a 13-year old cokehead who came from a line of alcoholics. Yep, her family is one to talk of normality.

Have to wonder what adults gave her that cocaine as a child.


14 posted on 05/27/2009 10:11:01 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Justice is blind. Sonia Sotomayor is not even qualified to sit on an IMPARTIAL jury.)
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To: lewisglad

Wrong, Drew - God defined the family.


15 posted on 05/27/2009 10:11:16 AM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: lewisglad

Maybe the question should be WHO, not What, defines a Family.


16 posted on 05/27/2009 10:11:25 AM PDT by mom4melody
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To: Red in Blue PA

when do children get to consent to be raised in an alternative lifestyle household?

Also, something that is being masked by the Left. There ARE civil unions in California for persons of the same sex who want to establish a legally protected coupling.


17 posted on 05/27/2009 10:12:40 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Justice is blind. Sonia Sotomayor is not even qualified to sit on an IMPARTIAL jury.)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Yes, Drew flashed Letterman on his birthday during the Letterman show.

Later he interviewed one of her costars (the guy who played Robin) and mentioned Drew; he said “So...have you ever seen her...”

Cut off with an abrupt “Oh yes!”

Dave looked disappointed, like he thought he was the only one.

And OF COURSE Drew thinks marriages meaning should be diluted. She seems to “marry” anybody she dates longer than a week.


18 posted on 05/27/2009 10:13:37 AM PDT by allmendream ("Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be redistributed?")
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To: lewisglad
And I'm suppose to listen to someone so stupid they can't ever put their eyelid makeup on correctly?


19 posted on 05/27/2009 10:14:18 AM PDT by OB1kNOb (I'm all for cap & trade. I want to cap government's power and trade it for a conservative one.)
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To: driftdiver

Ok and two gays can make their own kids how?

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Well, if they can “be married”, then they can legally adopt kids. A pedophiles wet dream.


20 posted on 05/27/2009 10:14:49 AM PDT by reaganbooster (The democrat party symbol should be the grim reaper instead of the donkey.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

“Children need families, people need to love and we need to move forward, not backward,” Barrymore said.

Children need families = gays being allowed to adopt.
Religious organizations that deny adoption to gay couples would be driven out of the adoption business.

The real intent of gay marriage is not gay marriage. The intent is to dismantle the time honored fabric of society - two parent (man/woman) families.

“People need to love” - this is all for love not hate - don’t you get it?

“We need to move forward, not backward” - the concept of traditional families is a “backward” concept. The forward thinking (illuminated - educated - enlightened) individuals need only apply. Those who oppose this bastardization of marriage are in the dark ages - knuckle dragging, neanderthals.
(Huge Sarcasm tag).


21 posted on 05/27/2009 10:15:12 AM PDT by antceecee (Bless us Father.. have mercy on us and protect us from evil.)
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To: freekitty
“She sure doesn’t look like Drew Barrymore”

That is the worst picture of her I have seen. She looks way too skinny and gaunt. She usually has some meat on her bones.

22 posted on 05/27/2009 10:15:46 AM PDT by mickey finn
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To: lmarie373

I appreciate where you are coming from. For all the talk about hatred and all that, all of the animosity is coming from the gay activists. I have not heard one incident of hatred expressed towards gays in all the campaigning and marches and speeches on this subject. All of the hatred is expressed from the gay marriage people. They hate our society, they hate religion, they hate the rule of law, they hate the concepts of mother and father and family.

I’m actually ok with people having partnership rights. I think it’s ironic that 40 states have no legal status at all for same-sex couples, but they have poured so much time and effort into California, which has a far reaching domestic partner law. And it’s all so they have the legal right to call their partnerships marriage.

I heard one activist say that it’s a shame they have been forced into playing defense on marriage, and that their side spent $40 million in last years election in the losing cause, and how much better that money could have been spent, etc. I just shake my head because there’s no perspectice here. The existing law gave them virtually all rights of marriage and partnership rights. It just didn’t give them the word marriage.


23 posted on 05/27/2009 10:15:54 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: lewisglad
"Children need families, people need to love and we need to move forward, not backward," Barrymore said.

Hey,you talentless whore....kids need a mother and a father....not two bull dykes or two fairies.

24 posted on 05/27/2009 10:16:08 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Christian+Veteran=Terrorist)
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To: lewisglad

“THEY’RE HERE!!”


25 posted on 05/27/2009 10:16:27 AM PDT by TenthAmendmentChampion (Be prepared for tough times. FReepmail me to learn about our survival thread!)
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To: freekitty

Yeah, what the hell happened to her? I agree that it doesn’t look like her at all.


26 posted on 05/27/2009 10:18:13 AM PDT by Lauren BaRecall (Forget "L'Osservatore Romano" - stick with www.zenit.org!)
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To: lewisglad

Actually no, tootsie - WE DO!


27 posted on 05/27/2009 10:18:23 AM PDT by Right Cal Gal (Abraham Lincoln would have let Berkeley leave the Union without a fight)
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To: lewisglad
another attention-starved Hollyflake !!!

Drew is the poster child for that very dysfunctional Barrimore family...

28 posted on 05/27/2009 10:18:43 AM PDT by xtinct ("There's a sucker born every minute." P.T. Barnum)
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To: lewisglad
another attention-starved Hollyflake !!!

Drew is the poster child for that very dysfunctional Barrimore family...

29 posted on 05/27/2009 10:18:52 AM PDT by xtinct ("There's a sucker born every minute." P.T. Barnum)
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To: TenthAmendmentChampion

that was the peak of her career, lol


30 posted on 05/27/2009 10:19:41 AM PDT by lewisglad
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To: lewisglad

“A rabbi calls the idea that marriage means a husband and wife “religious bigotry,” i.e., not religious liberty.”

Must have been a Rabbi from a Deformed Synagague.

Hmmmn - two Fraudian typos in one sentence. And, there is another one.

Enough poking fun at the intellectually crippled.

There is a tendency to forget that Reformed Synagogues are really deformed, not reformed. Sorry for the not too great pun, but De, oops, make that Reformed synagogues go gag me, hence synagague.

‘Nuff pun-ishment to the day.


31 posted on 05/27/2009 10:20:03 AM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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To: mickey finn

I guess all of these celebs think skinny is good. LOL


32 posted on 05/27/2009 10:20:09 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: Lauren BaRecall

Wierd, isn’t it. She had more personality with a little meat on her bones and she looked a lot better.


33 posted on 05/27/2009 10:20:51 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: EyeGuy

“Drew Barrymore revived the old narrative that family structure doesn’t matter”

Drew was in rehab for a drug and alcohol problem at he age of 13. Any questions?


34 posted on 05/27/2009 10:22:07 AM PDT by y6162 (uish..)
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To: DoughtyOne

we need to move forward, not backward,”

Awww, isn’t that cute - she is quoting her fearless leader, big “0”


35 posted on 05/27/2009 10:23:07 AM PDT by Bitsy
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To: lewisglad

http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/m4/jan2009/3/4/02F368DB-A978-D2E0-3060864297A3E739.jpg

Kelly Osbourne has been marching on a rally in Los Angeles to protest about the new Californian ban on gay weddings.

Ozzy and Sharon’s girl took to the streets to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with gossip queen and gay campaigner Perez Hilton to protest about the re-instatement of Propsal 8, which bans same-sex marriages - after they were legalised briefly last year.

Kelly said: “If you don’t support equal rights I don’t believe you are a real human being!”

She added: “It was so amazing to be apart of something beautiful!.”


36 posted on 05/27/2009 10:24:02 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: lewisglad

“I am famous, therefore, I am smart.”

These people are separated so far from reality that they just make it all up as they go along in life.

They are desperately unhappy people who see problems wherever they gaze.

I really do pity them.

Winston Churchill once said that “anyone can see what’s wrong; but can you see what’s right?”

Hear, hear.


37 posted on 05/27/2009 10:25:56 AM PDT by RexBeach ("Do your duty in all things." Robert E. Lee)
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To: freekitty
We are family....
38 posted on 05/27/2009 10:27:20 AM PDT by y6162 (uish..)
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To: EyeGuy

Rush is right, Liberals are at their funniest when they lose...


39 posted on 05/27/2009 10:28:19 AM PDT by apillar
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To: pogo101

“California already gives every right and privilege IT (as a state) possibly can give to civil-union couples, EXCEPT the term “Marriage.”

...good point....also many other states do likewise...it’s called the Domestic Pardners Act...but that’s not good enough for angry queers....they want us to APPROVE of them and their lifestyle....APPROVAL is what their indignation is all about.


40 posted on 05/27/2009 10:29:44 AM PDT by STONEWALLS
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To: freekitty

She was very sweet, even as a young adult acting in “chick flicks.” I really liked her. But her face was always unmistakable.

IMO, she’s still looking for the love and approval she never had as a kid. Just hope she’s not re-addicted to any substances. Poor little girl.


41 posted on 05/27/2009 10:29:53 AM PDT by Lauren BaRecall (Forget "L'Osservatore Romano" - stick with www.zenit.org!)
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To: lewisglad
I will say it again. How can one support gay marriage and not support adult incest or adult polygamy?
42 posted on 05/27/2009 10:30:22 AM PDT by Niteranger68 (If you haven't purged you company of 0bama supporters, you are part of the problem.)
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To: Red in Blue PA
And she has how many kids????

How many ex-husbands? Hardly the poster girl for the sanctity of marriage.

43 posted on 05/27/2009 10:30:31 AM PDT by wbill
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To: lewisglad

She was married to Welsh bartender turned bar owner Jeremy Thomas from March 20 to April 28, 1994. Her second marriage was to comedian Tom Green from July 7, 2001 to October 15, 2002. Green filed for divorce in December 2001. In 2002, Barrymore began dating Strokes’ drummer Fabrizio Moretti, soon after they met at a concert. Their five year relationship, however, ended on January 10, 2007. She most recently dated Justin Long, however, they confirmed their split in July 2008.

In the 1990s Barrymore was frequently described as bisexual, although she said in a 1997 interview that she hadn’t “been with a woman in about two years.” In 2004, she was quoted as saying “A woman and a woman together are beautiful, just as a man and a woman together are beautiful. Being with a woman is like exploring your own body, but through someone else. When I was younger I used to go with lots of women. Totally. I love it”. In March 2007, former magazine editor Jane Pratt claimed on her Sirius Satellite Radio show that she had a romance with Barrymore in the mid-nineties.

Barrymore was formerly a vegetarian, but has since begun to eat meat


44 posted on 05/27/2009 10:33:40 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: pogo101

And they INSIST to be called “married”,

so as to UNdefine marriage.


45 posted on 05/27/2009 10:34:43 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, Bowman later)
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To: Lauren BaRecall

I liked her movies too.


46 posted on 05/27/2009 10:40:06 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: y6162

At least you know who she is in that pic.


47 posted on 05/27/2009 10:40:45 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: kcvl
In the 1990s Barrymore was frequently described as bisexual, although she said in a 1997 interview that she hadn’t “been with a woman in about two years.”

Well, her current appearance makes me think she's hoping that Lindsay Lohan will make a pass at her. All Drew needs is a weird hat and she'd look like LiLo's strange ex-whatever.

48 posted on 05/27/2009 10:46:35 AM PDT by Charles Martel ("Endeavor to persevere...")
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Red in Blue PA: 'What Defines a Family? Voters Did!'
49 posted on 05/27/2009 11:00:37 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (http://ccwsaveslives.blogspot.com/)
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To: kcvl

Kelly Osborne looks like one of the Pep boys: a great big head on top of a little tiny body. Why does everyone in Hollywood want to be emaciated?


50 posted on 05/27/2009 11:00:44 AM PDT by Barb4Bush (God help us all!)
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