Posted on 06/28/2015 10:30:18 AM PDT by Steelfish
For Broadway's Audra McDonald And Others, Same-Sex Marriage Ruling Is A 'No-Brainer'
By DAVID NG AND DEBORAH VANKIN Prominent members of the performing and visual arts professions have voiced their approval of Friday's ruling by the Supreme Court legalizing same-sex marriage around the country.
Their reactions are perhaps not surprising for a community, including Broadway, that has long supported same-sex marriage and that counts many gay individuals both behind and in front of the curtain.
Many states had already decided to legalize same-sex marriage, but Friday's decision means that same-sex couples have the right to marry in all 50 states.
Among those who dissented from the majority were Justices John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. In his dissenting opinion, Roberts wrote that the ruling "not only overlooks our country's entire history and tradition but actively repudiates it, preferring to live only in the heady days of the here and now."
Audra McDonald, the six-time Tony Award-winning Broadway actress, and the former star of ABC's "Private Practice," has been a longtime supporter of marriage equality. Her Twitter handle is @AudraEqualityMc.
"It's a historic day. It feels like it happened so quickly and yet so slowly," said McDonald about Friday's ruling in an interview. "For the Broadway community, it has always been a no-brainer. On Broadway, the LGBTQ community is so visible; we never understood the discrimination of the past."
She added: "I actually have blood family members and those who I have made my family who are part of the gay community. To see them denied basic rights was heartbreaking. It was barbaric. So that's when I got super vocal."
Soprano Patricia Racette, who is married to her longtime partner, Beth, called it a "day we've been hoping for for some time."
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Broad is the way that leads to destruction.
She added: “I actually have blood family members and those who I have made my family who are part of the gay community. To see them denied basic rights was heartbreaking. It was barbaric. So that’s when I got super vocal.”
This sort of statement indicates what type of people we are dealing with, and their tenuous hold on reality. Not allowing homosexual marriage was barbaric??? Really??? In the same category as ISIS beheading people???
So was Obama a barbaric president until he came out in May 2012 for homosexual marriage??? Really???
no-brainer? agreed.
animals are generally not very intelligent
I agree it’s a no brainer.
If you support it, you haven’t got a brain.
Or the fact that ISIS can out you, toss you off a roof for entertainment, and cheer when you hit the pavement.
There is some truth in the “no-brainer” part.
Because this whole exercise was a salute to EMOTION, not reason or even any appeal to just meditate and seek a calm center. This rush to “adopt” the fad of the moment, and carve it into immutable law, is bound to have some unforeseen consequences, that its strongest advocates cannot or will not see or recognize, until, inevitably, it bites them squarely in the gluteus maximus. Everyone will have “rights”, but without the concomitant exercise of “responsibility”, at which point the “rights” are just weapons to be used in a free-for-all fight. When does a “right” become equal to its diametrical opposite, and who sets the order of precedence?
If this does not set the stage for chaos, then what is the point of playing “Game of War” on a video, when real life is all about you?
Indeed, and interestingly portrayed in the nightmarish “Lullaby of Broadway” sequence from the film “42nd Street”
Barbaric?
A low threshold definition
Of course cultures that hang on every word of its creative class must be masochist
People in Broadway are supporters of the Homosexual agenda? Shocker. I don’t know how I can cope with this surprising and upsetting reality. /s
That’s right, Baby. You have “no brains” if you can’t see the evils of this decision, regardless of how one personally feels about homosexual “marriage”
The ends don’t justify the means, but you’re too stupid to know that
Oh, no! She’s gone super vocal!
I hate super as a modifier. Possible exception: “I’m super pissed!” Nah. Still don’t like it.
>>Their reactions are perhaps not surprising for a community, including Broadway, that has long supported same-sex marriage and that counts many gay individuals both behind and in front of the curtain.
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http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2010/05/the-homophobia-of-jack-paar.html
Fairies and Communists by Jack Paar
There used to be a time when it looked like the Communists were taking over show business. Now it’s fairies. They operate a lot alike, actually; both have a tendency to colonize. Just as there used to be no such thing as one Communist in a play or movie, now there is no such thing as one fairy. Where you find one, you usually find a baker’s dozen swishing around. I had a little game I used to play when I was an actor in Hollywood, back in the days when Communists or Communist sympathizers were nearly as plentiful in the film capital as yes-men. If I spotted someone in a picture who was a Communist or leftist, I could usually pick out several others. They always came in sets. Now I play it a different way. When I hear that some fairy is producing or directing or acting in a play, I can often name some of the rest of the cast, even if I’ve never heard it. But Communists and fairies do differ in some respects. The Hollywood Communists had their “Unfriendly Ten,” who refused to testify before a Congressional Committee, but the fairies are overfriendly. They do say no occasionally. “When a fairy says no,” Alex King has observed, “he almost throws his back out of joint.” The poor darlings, as they sometimes call themselves, are everywhere in show business. The theater is infested with them and it’s beginning to show the effects. “The New York theater is dying,” the late Ernie Kovacs complained recently, “Killed by limp wrists.”
The dance is a mecca for the gamboling third sex, which prompted Oscar Levant to observe that “ballet is the fairies’ baseball.” The movies have long been a happy hunting ground for them, and now they’re starting to take over television. No TV variety show seems complete without a group of fairy dancers leaping about with balloons.
George Jean Nathan wrote long ago, “What we need is more actors like Jack Dempsey. Jack may not be much of an actor but his worst enemy cannot accuse him of belonging to the court of Titania.” Alas, things have been getting worse ever since.
The increasing emasculation of our stage seems to stem in part from the influence of actors from England, where homosexuality is rampant in the theater. Kenneth Tynan, the British critic, has acknowledged the growth there of the theatrical phenomenon known as “camp” whose distinguishing feature, he says, is a marked inclination toward the dainty, the coy and the exuberantly fussy. “High comedy in England is nowadays hostage in the camp of camp,” he lamented. “With each new season its voice gets shriller and its blood runs thinner.”
Formerly playwrights were writing plays about fairies and now they’re writing plays for them. There was a wonderful scene in Peter Pan when Mary Martin turned and asked the audience if they believed in fairies and they answered with an affirmative roar. I began to get worried when the cast started drowning out the audience.
Not only have homosexuals taken over a leading role in the theater, but the theme of homosexuality is becoming increasingly prominent on the stage as witness Advise and Consent, Compulsion, The Best Man and Tea and Sympathy, some of which have been produced on both the stage and screen. Recently, not one but two versions of the life of Oscar Wilde were showing in New York.
A half century ago Wilde was jailed and disgraced in England for “The love that dared not speak its name,” yet today actors found guilty of the same offense become not only famous but honored. One of England’s most noted actors and a popular American male singer have both been convicted of homosexuality without it adversely affecting their public lives or careers.
I first noticed the widespread prevalence of homosexuality in Hollywood, which boasted a Fairyland long before it had a Disneyland. Fresh out of the Army, and rather naive, it became as quite a shock to discover that some of Hollywood’s biggest he-man stars were actually more interested in each other than in the glamorous actresses they made love to before the cameras. One virile looking Western star was such a gay Caballero that he had to be restrained from riding side saddle. Another gorgeous hunk of man, whom millions of girls sighed over, had his voice dubbed by another actor to disguise its girlish quality. Other male stars, known as AC-DC types, are ambidextrous and can’t decide what to do when confronted by “His” and “Hers” towels. In New York they are prominent in all of the arts. They cavort in ballet. They flutter on the Broadway stage. And they are everywhere in television. Wherever there is one you will find others. They are highly organized and indefatigable at assisting each other...
They play by Alinsky’s rules.
No one wants to be friends with a barbarian.
Yep, I heard that on the day of the court ruling, ISIS threw some more homosexuals off of high rise buildings. There’s true barbarism and “homophobic” behavior. It’s crazy to say that we are barbaric if we oppose homosexual marriage as a social/political policy.
I have to agree - no brains is the only way this ruling could make any sense as a matter of law. It indicating problems that don’t and will not exist as a basis for a ruling that has nothing to do with the legal issue of whether or not states can set requirements and qualifications, and adhere to language, on filing a piece of a paper with the state.
These people from Hollywood, broadway or the stage are a bunch of loons. Look for a major connection somewhere along the way here soon. God will not graciously abide this. Not at all.
It’s a no-brainer for many of them ...because they have no brains!
Gays loving ISIS loving Gaza loving Paletine hating jews hating straight hating God hating ...whatever...
It just won’t end well? Which is sad, because the gays last question in this life will be, ISIS, why are you stabbing me in my face?
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