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In an interview with Britain’s The Guardian, 67-year-old actor Jeremy Irons said he thinks the church is right to say that abortion is a sin because “sin is actions that harm us” and abortion “harms a woman.” This, naturally, has caused several abortion advocates to spontaneously combust, while others are in the hospital being treated for lacerations to the head inflicted by their own fingernails as they tried to claw out their hair. That last bit was a joke, but just barely. In reality, feminist website Jezebel called Irons a “stupid fartbag” and proclaimed that he believes women who have...

Hollywood star Jennifer Lawrence hit back at feminists who attacked her for wearing a “revealing” dress in cold weather, writing on Facebook Wednesday that she is “extremely offended” and calling her critics “sexist.” Lawrence came under fire for wearing a Versace dress, which critics described as “revealing,” while posing for a photo with her Red Sparrow co-stars Joel Edgerton, Jeremy Irons, Matthias Schoenaerts, and director Francis Lawrence, who wore winter coats. Helen Lewis, the deputy editor of the New Statesman, received thousands of likes in her critique of Lawrence’s choice of clothing.

He is a passionate campaigner on green issues, and now Jeremy Irons has backed a campaign to ban lorries from the quaint Oxfordshire town where he lives. The Oscar–winning actor has thrown his weight behind an action group to prevent HGVs using the narrow streets of Watlington as a rat-run between the M40 and M4. The market town—reputedly the smallest in the country—is regularly snarled up with lorries whose drivers, looking for a shortcut between Oxford and Reading, are directed there by their satnavs. …

LONDON, U.K., April 10, 2013 (LifeSiteNews) – Academy Award-winning actor Jeremy Irons told HuffPost Live last week that he worries a redefinition of marriage to include same-sex couples could lead to abuses of the institution, including marriages between fathers and their sons. “It seems to me that now [gay activsts are] fighting for the name,” Irons told HuffPo Live host Josh Zepps. “I worry that it means somehow we debase, or we change, what marriage is. I just worry about that.” Zepps asked Irons about his views on gay ‘marriage’ during an interview about the Showtime series “The Borgias,” in...

Actor Jeremy Irons claims that gay marriage could lead to fathers getting married to their sons – for tax reasons. The 64-year-old claimed he didn't have 'strong feelings' about same-sex marriage but said it could be used to allow fathers to pass estates on to sons without being taxed. Speaking to Huffington Post Live host Josh Zepps, Irons asked: 'Could a father not marry his son?' He claimed incest laws could not prevent it from happening because: 'It's not incest between men. Incest is there to protect us from inbreeding but men don't breed.'

Granted, the actor did get into some trouble recently when he wondered aloud if gay marriage would “debase” marital law, allowing men to marry their sons to avoid estate taxes. And less recently he said, ”If a man puts his hand on a woman’s bottom, any woman worth her salt can deal with it. It’s communication.” (Perhaps that’s how it works for Jeremy Irons. I remain skeptical.) Whatever the case, his position on paternalistic do-gooders in this HuffPo Live interview, is right on.

The voice of Scar in the Lion King has spoken: “We must live more sustainably,” he growls from Pride Rock – as he probably doesn’t call a single one of his seven homes, not even the pink castle in Co Cork, because in real life he’s not a lion at all but a Sherborne-educated luvvie who takes himself very, very seriously called Jeremy Irons. Increasing global population would put an intolerable strain on world resources, and the gulf between developing countries and westerners living a bountiful “pie-in-the-sky” existence must be addressed. “One always returns to the fact that there are...