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Portia versus Elizabeth- The View Battle Over Marriage Equality

12/04/09-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire
Portia de Rossi, wife of Ellen Degeneres, challenged Elizabeth Hassleback of The View on her attitudes towards marriage equality. Hassleback stated “Take men and women. Women want all the rights of men, but they’re not asking to be called men. Do you think…is the word [marriage] more important than the rights?”

De Rossi went on to say “No, of course the word isn’t more important than the rights,” Portia responded. “Without the word, we don’t have equal rights…Every citizen of this country should have that legal right to be married,” she said. “Marriage the word actually does mean something because people who see a gay coupling as a lesser thing in society can continue to [think] it’s lesser than marriage when really it’s the exact same thing. The exact same love, the exact same commitment, love of family.”

De Rossi and Degeneres were married legally in 2008.

As a note, the author of this text suffers from dyslexia/dysgraphia. While i do try VERY hard to make sure of my spellings, proper names are not always accurate and have too many variations. IF there is a misspelling, please make note of it in a simple statement that is neither judgmental nor dismissive.