10 Most Famo Celebs To Speak Out Agast Gay Marriage

Contents:

• MORMON STARS FACE BACKLASH AFTER GAY MARRIAGE BAN
• 10 MOST FAMO CELEBS TO SPEAK OUT AGAST GAY MARRIAGE
• MARIE OSMOND TALKS GAY MARRIAGE, LBIAN DGHTER JSI IN NEW INTERVIEW
• IS DONNY OSMOND GAY?

MORMON STARS FACE BACKLASH AFTER GAY MARRIAGE BAN

He explaed that whether you nsir yourself straight or gay, we all face temptatns and are expected to live up to the same standards. His urage standg by his nvictns is an spiratn to Mormons everywhere who have faced a variety of trials due to their posn on gay marriage. Qutn about Donny Osmond and gay pri flag.

Sce Donny's not gay, n someone expla to me the gay pri flag he showed AND the mentn of his "partner" last week's episo?

He admted at the time that he knew many gay people and some of them were his bt iends. Unfortunately, that's a spirual llg that the ey of California's sudnly vocifero gay rights movement mak them public enemy number one. "So when Brandon Flowers, or David Archuleta or any of s other celebry members show up a gay neighbourhood, they should know how we feel.

10 MOST FAMO CELEBS TO SPEAK OUT AGAST GAY MARRIAGE

"At issue is the church's role bankrollg Proposn 8, which outlawed gay marriage California after was backed by 52. 5 per cent of the state's voters on Tuday, leavg 18, 000 recently married gay and lbian upl legal limbo. 6m) support of the proposal, and travelled their thoands om Utah, where the relign has s headquarters, to lobby on s Thursday, 2, 500 gay rights protters marched to LA's largt Mormon temple, Wtwood, where they cried what chants and plards billed as "Mormon hate" and "Mormon scum" and promisg "no more Mr Nice Gay".

That uld have ser implitns for acts such as Osmond, Knight and the Killers, who boast a strong gay followg.

Many have recently tried to play down their church's anti-gay stance. Flowers has said his relign is "very important" his life, but told a recent terviewer that he took a liberal posn on gay rights. Osmond oppos gay marriage, but claims on his webse that this don't make him homophobic.

MARIE OSMOND TALKS GAY MARRIAGE, LBIAN DGHTER JSI IN NEW INTERVIEW

"I do support our church lears who say that we n accept those wh gay tennci our church, as long as they do not act upon their temptatns. "Jim Key, a spokman for the LA Gay and Lbian Centre which anised last week's prott, said he hoped followers would distguish between Mormon bs that did not donate to Proposn 8 and those that did. Wh more and more openly gay celebri gracg the stag at the annual award ceremoni, seems that the old fashned views of the lik of Walt Disney and Charlton Hton are buried along wh them.

This is not the se, however, and many the Hollywood ele still like to steal the limelight by ocsnally shockg their terviewers wh some anti-gay sentiments.

IS DONNY OSMOND GAY?

Not all of the celebri on this list are explicly “anti-gay”, but they have all at some pot ma clear that they are opposed to the marriage of two people of the same sex. There are many lists out there that claim to have done the same thg, but they ually nfe homophobia wh right-wg views on marriage: the two are not necsarily synonymo.

Neverthels, opposg gay marriage is nsired ntroversial due to the large numbers of people affects, wh an timated 6% of the populatn intifyg as LGBT. Sce the passg of the feral gay marriage law the USA, the issue has once aga been thst to the foreont of polil bate. This list is certaly not exhstive – there are many other celebri who have shocked the world wh vrlic ments directed towards gay people - but the celebri on this list are the most proment to openly oppose, what many people nsir, a legimate form of love servg of legal regnn.

A rather nfg aspect of Donald Tmp’s posn is that he has been heard fendg the gay-marriage laws of the USA (note that fense of a law is not fense of a prciple). Ined, Tmp jumped to the fense of a judge who sentenced a man for refg to issue a gay marriage license, notg that “gay marriage is the law of the land.