Christe Baranski’s Favore The Good Wife Episo Was When She Was Argug Wh Oliver Platt About Gay Rights

Contents:

• 'THE GOOD WIFE' CREATORS DISCS GAY MARRIAGE VS. RELIG EEDOM
• ‘THE GOOD WIFE’ DEFENDS GAY MARRIAGE AGAST ‘RELIG FREEDOM’
• CHRISTE BARANSKI’S FAVORE THE GOOD WIFE EPISO WAS WHEN SHE WAS ARGUG WH OLIVER PLATT ABOUT GAY RIGHTS
• 'THE GOOD WIFE': ROBERT AND MICHELLE KG TEASE SUNDAY'S EPISO ON GAY MARRIAGE, RELIG EEDOM

'THE GOOD WIFE' CREATORS DISCS GAY MARRIAGE VS. RELIG EEDOM

Closg Arguments Sometim art imat life, and The Good Wife did exactly that wh a timely episo that tackled gay marriage and relig eedom. RK: The tensn between gay marriage, let’s say, and relig eedom is a topic that people get very angry and fur about on both sis.

And we thought we were kd of makg a joke about that every time they [talk] about a baker bakg a ke for a gay weddg you actually see versns of that. For many fans of The Good Wife, gay or otherwise, havg Diane Lockhart fend gay marriage agast relig eedom is a verable pop culture wet dream.

Though was wrten and filmed Febary of this year, the episo ntaed a major arc which Diane Lockhart (Christe Baranski) fends a gay uple a lawsu agast a weddg planner who refed to work wh them bee she is a Christian who do not believe same-sex timg of the episo is astoundg given the very real tensn between the rights of relig eedom and anti-discrimatn laws beg bated, as legislatn om Indiana and Arkansas supportg the rights of bs owners to ignore laws that nflict wh their own relig views—specifilly their views on gay marriage—make natnal headl.

‘THE GOOD WIFE’ DEFENDS GAY MARRIAGE AGAST ‘RELIG FREEDOM’

But more than that, crafts a rpectful, refully paced disurse that approach sheer bliss as Baranski glorly, eloquently advot for the legal rights of the muny that has turned her feroc, classy lns a power su, Diane Lockhart, to a gay in. Instead, and wh jt the slightt glt of gay rights-csadg twklg her eye, she works through a logil, irrefutable legal fense that unvers the hypocrisy of mercial enterpris that ce relig acmodatn as jtifitn for what is so clearly bigotry and unlawful picks apart every clichéd rea ed by pro-relig eedom supporters to fend their stanc, illumatg why this natnal bate amounts to more than jt “what self-rpectg gay uple would serve pizza at their weddg anyway?

The bety of the episo—and the mock trial—is that 's not a shamelsly one-sid damnatn of the relig and a screed support of gay marriage at all sts. Diane picks apart via a seri of poted qutng that will make any supporter of gay rights leap to their feet and appld at the TV. “How many tim did J nmn homosexualy?

CHRISTE BARANSKI’S FAVORE THE GOOD WIFE EPISO WAS WHEN SHE WAS ARGUG WH OLIVER PLATT ABOUT GAY RIGHTS

She even lls on the age-old fense to prove that she’s not anti-gay, jt don’t believe gay marriage: her iend is a florist, and he’s gay. The episo really go hard on the whole “I don’t have a problem wh gay people! Platt’s character, who is fundg the weddg planner’s se, has a gay nephew.

“I love my gay nephew.

'THE GOOD WIFE': ROBERT AND MICHELLE KG TEASE SUNDAY'S EPISO ON GAY MARRIAGE, RELIG EEDOM

I want him to be happy, ” he shrewdly, Diane sts that gay nephew (played by Wley Taylor) as the platiff the mock trial, for Platt’s R.

“My favore episo that I ever did on The Good Wife was wh Oliver Platt, and was the weddg ke, the gay-marriage episo, ” Baranski told Vulture at the Peggy Siegal Company screeng of Bt of Enemi, a documentary about a seri of vrlic bat between William F. D., who hir Baranski’s Diane Lockhart to argue the liberal si of a mock se about whether a bakery n refe to sell a weddg ke to a gay uple.

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