Openly gay comedian Wanda Sykes says
she doesn't understand the opposition to gay marriage.
Sykes joins actors Dan Bucatinsky and
Jesse Tyler Ferguson to discuss being gay in Hollywood with Oprah
Winfrey on Sunday's episode of Oprah's Next Chapter.
“Do you know how many people got
married yesterday?” Sykes is seen rhetorically asking in a clip
from the program. “Neither do I. And I don't care. Why, why do
you care?”
“I don't understand why people really
get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all,” she
adds.
“Because they feel it cheapens their
marriage,” Bucatinsky says. “If you can get married, then it
takes away all of the meaning of their marriage. … It makes no
sense.”
“And also if you can get married from
a reality show. … The 'sanctity of marriage' is that you can be on
a contest and at the end of 12 weeks you're going to marry, for life,
or at least say vows to, a person from a reality show that you just
met. And that doesn't threaten the sanctity of marriage? Are you
kidding me? That doesn't threaten the sanctity of marriage, but my
love for my spouse of 21 years and our two kids is going to ruin
families? It's maddening,” he adds. (The video is embedded on
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