Out daytime talk show host Ellen
DeGeneres on Friday responded to the announcement that the Supreme
Court will take up four cases challenging gay marriage bans.
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“Yea!” DeGeneres said during a Q&A
session at the Winter TV Press Tour where she was promoting her new
NBC gay-inclusive comedy One Big Happy. “It’s about
time.”
“The thing that changed the civil
rights movement was when white people got involved and started
marching. We need everyone on our side. We're kind of trying to do
this march, and we need people that believe in equality and believe
in fairness and love. If we have people that will join us and give
us that, which is only fair to have the same rights as everybody
else, then it's a wonderful world,” she added.
DeGeneres married actress Portia de
Rossi (Arrested Development, Ally McBeal) in 2008 in
California.
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DeGeneres' marriage harms society, pastor claims.)