Singer-songwriter Pharrell Williams
gave an impassioned endorsement of marriage equality during an
appearance on Ellen DeGeneres' daytime talk show.
While discussing Happy, the lead
single from his second studio album Girl, Williams deviated
onto the subject of women's rights.
“We're a species that has a space
station floating above the Earth for 20 years,” Williams told
DeGeneres. “We even have a rover on the surface of Mars. How can
we be the same species that is telling people … we have legislators
and legislation in places, in certain places, that tells women what
they can and cannot do with their bodies. How is that possible?”
“When I say equality,” he
continued, “I mean equality for everybody. Who are you telling who
they can marry and who they can't? What is this? This is 2014.”
“Yup, that right there,” responded
DeGeneres, who is openly gay and married. (The video is embedded on
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