Here is what Clint Eastwood thinks about anti-gay marriage bigots, colorful language and all:
“These people who are making a big deal out of gay marriage?” Eastwood opined. “I don’t give a fuck about who wants to get married to anybody else! Why not?! We’re making a big deal out of things we shouldn’t be making a deal out of.”
“They go on and on with all this bullshit about ‘sanctity’ — don’t give me that sanctity crap! Just give everybody the chance to have the life they want.”
Sounds good to me.
“Go ahead, make my day!” :)
Well, it made MINE!
If my memory serves me well enough, Clint Eastwood is more of the libertarian-Republican political bent.
A very interesting link about modern politics. I actually read something similar to Eastwood’s thought on the GOP on a Web site a week or so ago; some social conservative was raging about supposed RINOs and another poster answered him that what are now called RINOs were the original Republicans. I say today’s social conservative Republican is the worthless kid of Richard Nixon’s Southern Strategy. An interesting piece of information if anyone is wondering how a party originally organized to end slavery ended up where it is now.
That’s great to hear! Thank you, Clint Eastwood!
Well, I’m feeling lucky today…
[...] This was making the rounds yesterday and I didn’t get to it. There was a post on Daily Kos the other day about how refreshing, and how different in tone, pro-gay messages are when they come from straight guys. Rather than making long, well-thought out arguments about why marriage equality is right, etc., the messages from straight guys — and I know this to be true with my own straight male friends — tend to be more along the lines of “who cares? And go to hell if you don’t like it!” The Kos piece used Clint Eastwood’s message of support as a springboard — if you don’t remember, it went like this: [...]