Actress Sophia Bush says she agrees
with George Clooney on whether marriage equality is a civil rights
issue.
The One Tree Hill co-star told
E!'s The
Soup that she agrees with Clooney's statement that gay rights
are the “last leg of the civil rights movement.”
“Absolutely, I agree with that. 100
percent,” Bush said during a pre-Oscars bash.
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Clooney calls gay marrriage a civil right; to play David Boies in 8.)
“When we're talking about the 60s,
when my best friend couldn't drink out of the same water fountain as
I can because his skin is a different color than me. … Now, you're
talking about a different best friend of mine who can't get married
even though I could get married seven times in my life and he can't
do that because he is a different sexual orientation than me?!
That's absolutely a civil rights issue.”
“In a world that's filled with famine
and rape and murder, we're going [to] focus on a problem, so people
want to say, with two people loving one another, with two people
wanting to potentially adopt children who are otherwise homeless,
really?!”
“It is absolutely a civil rights
issue. And anyone who says that it isn't is misinformed,” she
added. “Shut your trap and talk about something that matters,
please.”