Conservative Doug Powers has compared
an MSNBC segment featuring a mother talking to her daughter about gay
marriage to “child abuse.”
In the segment, The Cycle
co-host Krystal Ball discusses who can marry with Ella, her
5-year-old daughter.
“What if you were in love with a
girl?” Ball asks. “Could you marry a girl?”
“Only here I can marry a girl,”
Ella answers.
“Here in New York you can marry a
girl,” Ball prods.
“Yes, 'cause girls can marry girls
and boys can marry boys in New York. And a girl can marry a boy in
New York, too.”
“And that's good because you want
people to be able to marry who they're in love with, right?”
“Yeah,” Ella responds.
Ella also agrees with her mother who
says that it's “crazy” that other states do not allow marriage
equality.
“Flip the subject being pushed on the
little girl to something like pro-life values and MSNBC would be
reporting it as child abuse,” Powers
wrote on Michelle Malkin's blog. “I'll say this much: At least
in this example it's her own kid instead of a room full of other
people's children.”
The conservative blog Liberty
Unyielding also criticized Ball, saying
she was exploiting her own daughter.
(Watch
the entire segment at MSNBC.)