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Oscar winners make plea for gay rights
The Times of India ^ | 2/23/09 | Staff

Posted on 02/23/2009 6:10:17 AM PST by L.A.Justice

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I was in the other room...I just heard Penn's comments...I didn't see his face on TV...

Penn probably ended up ruining many people's Oscar viewing experience...Up to that point, the show was OK...

Black, the screenwriter guy, wasn't as obnoxious as Penn...He didn't really attack gay marriage opponents. But, Penn...He felt a need to scold some viewers, who don't support gay marriage...

I don't dispute that Penn is a very competent actor. But, I don't like his arrogance...I find him obnoxious.

I am not sure if Obama really objects to gay marriage...

1 posted on 02/23/2009 6:10:17 AM PST by L.A.Justice
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To: L.A.Justice

Can’t the gays just stick to the Tony Awards?


2 posted on 02/23/2009 6:11:42 AM PST by dfwgator (1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
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To: L.A.Justice

Can the brilliant Mr. Penn enumerate for us the rights that homosexuals don’t have?

If anything, they are beneficiaries of “affirmative action”, a form of reverse prejudice that gives them unfair advantage over those who are not queer.


3 posted on 02/23/2009 6:11:48 AM PST by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: L.A.Justice

Anyone notice how a great movie (Grand Torino) doesn’t even get a nomination for anything? Oh yeah, it had a conservative bent to it so, no soup for you!!


4 posted on 02/23/2009 6:14:36 AM PST by Old Teufel Hunden (I)
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To: L.A.Justice

I disagree that the show was ok.

They had a comedy sketch that was disgusting, joking about Nazis having sex with little boys, they showed simulated sex and nudity and two grown men passionately kissing.

Then when they did the tribute to stars who have died in the past year the applause completely died out when they showed Charlton Heston on the screen. It resumed when they showed liberal stars who had died.

The dance and music parts of the show were a disgrace, multi cultural crapola.

Sean Penn did his usual kissing up politically but the man is so brain damaged that he had to take a piece of paper out of his pocket to read the names of people to thank.

Pathetic excuse for a human being, much less actor. He’s not worthy of being a pimple on Charlton Heston’s rear end.

I have been watching the Oscars since 1969 and this was the absolute WORST show I’ve ever seen. No exaggeration.


5 posted on 02/23/2009 6:15:12 AM PST by deannadurbin
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it's a demonstration of such emotional cowardice to be so afraid to be extending the same rights to a fellow man as you would want for yourself,"

I didn't watch, I never do, simply because watching a bunch of narcissists patting each other on the back is something I find nauseating. But, I have to say, gay folks have the same exact marriage rights as I do. They can marry someone of the opposite sex if they'd like. I can't marry my dog, or another woman, or whatever. So, it's not like I have a right they don't.

6 posted on 02/23/2009 6:15:17 AM PST by brytlea (You can fool enough of the people enough of the time.)
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To: deannadurbin

Thanks, you made me glad I didn’t watch!


7 posted on 02/23/2009 6:16:36 AM PST by brytlea (You can fool enough of the people enough of the time.)
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To: Westbrook

The “right” to have their relationships viewed as “normal” in our society.

They never will be, but that’s the “right” that they want, IMPOSED/FORCED on everyone.


8 posted on 02/23/2009 6:16:41 AM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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To: L.A.Justice

I can see I didn’t miss much by completely ignoring the Oscars. We did laundry and watched an episode of Frasier.


9 posted on 02/23/2009 6:17:36 AM PST by ChocChipCookie ("Let his days be few, and let another take his office." Psalm 109:8)
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To: L.A.Justice

Why do you people watch this crap?!


10 posted on 02/23/2009 6:18:04 AM PST by pnh102 (Save America - Ban Ethanol Now!)
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To: L.A.Justice

Gay rights took center stage at the Oscars ceremony when actor Sean Penn and the writer of the film “Milk” made impassioned pleas for opponents of same-sex marriage to rethink their stand.

Sorry dirtbag (Penn),but I feel no need to rethink morality, decency, common sense, etc.
It is you that should rethink your position because of the damage you do to society.


11 posted on 02/23/2009 6:20:41 AM PST by SECURE AMERICA (Coming to You From the Front Lines of Occupied America)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden
Anyone notice how a great movie (Grand Torino) doesn’t even get a nomination for anything? Oh yeah, it had a conservative bent to it so, no soup for you!!

Maybe if Eastwood's character had been gay.

12 posted on 02/23/2009 6:21:03 AM PST by Netizen
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To: L.A.Justice

Clowns like Sean Penn see this as the next great civil rights crusade. In reality, there are no governmental restrictions/prohibitions on gays that are also not on every other American. In other words, gays get treated the same way (in the eyes of the law/government) as straight people do. There is unfortunately a sect of society that wants to do violence against gays. However, in the eyes of the law gays get more rights/priveledges in this situation. For instance, hate crimes. If my brother is murdered in cold blood, why is that less heinous than if a gay man gets murdered in cold blood.

What Sean Penn and others like him fail to see is the real civil rights crusade that is going on right underneath their noses. The fight for those that are not yet born. I would think that the fight for the approximately 50 million lives that have been aborted to be an important civil rights crusade he could go on.


13 posted on 02/23/2009 6:22:09 AM PST by Old Teufel Hunden (I)
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To: L.A.Justice

Penn probably ended up ruining many people’s Oscar viewing experience...Up to that point, the show was OK...

You actually wasted a time period of your life and watched the Oscar’s?
How sad for you.


14 posted on 02/23/2009 6:22:59 AM PST by SECURE AMERICA (Coming to You From the Front Lines of Occupied America)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

Expect the calls for a Harvey Milk Federal Holiday to begin in earnest.


15 posted on 02/23/2009 6:23:27 AM PST by dfwgator (1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
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To: brytlea

Correct. What if I want to marry additional women? Why is my “right” to marry whomever I choose being abridged?? If I can afford to do this, and no one is hurt, then why can’t I do this??

Or, can’t I be a polygamist because it is morally wrong? Says who?

We, as a society, have a right to draw moral distinctions. The practice of homosexuality is wrong, and everyone knows it.


16 posted on 02/23/2009 6:24:18 AM PST by Obadiah (Party - my house - on December 22, 2012!)
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To: L.A.Justice

“I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect and anticipate their great shame and the shame in their grandchildren’s eyes if they continue that way of support,”

My kids and grandkids are proud of me thank you very much Mr. Penn. You were right about one thing, you were in a room filled with your fellow commies.

You, who live in a nice gated community sheltered from the real world you Jerk!!


17 posted on 02/23/2009 6:24:56 AM PST by waxer1 ( Live Free or Die; Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death)
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To: Netizen
"Maybe if Eastwood's character had been gay."

Then I'm sure Clint would be sitting at home with an Oscar right now. At the end of the movie, everyone in the theatre got up and clapped. I've seen that a few times at the movie theater, but only for great movies.
18 posted on 02/23/2009 6:25:25 AM PST by Old Teufel Hunden (I)
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To: L.A.Justice

I think Penn’s acting abilities are over rated. If you’ve ever been around mentally handicapped individuals, you would have laughed at his portrayal of one in “I am Sam.” His acting in “Mystic River” was a textbook example of method acting. I doubt he would have won if he starred in similar movie depicting an assassinated heterosexual politician.


19 posted on 02/23/2009 6:27:18 AM PST by crymeariver (Good news...in a way)
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When Jerry Lewis was making his acceptance speech the camera showed Penn's face for a few seconds. He looked like he was cursing Lewis under his breath. Lewis came under some heat recently for saying something about “a little fag.” That being said,did anyone doubt that Penn would win? After all he portrayed a courageous gay man! Penn winning is like giving AL Gore a Grammy for best Spoken Word Album. It's all a gigantic joke!!
20 posted on 02/23/2009 6:28:44 AM PST by 4yearlurker (The ground at Arlington is moving & shaking.)
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