Sex and the City 2 star and gay
marriage advocate Cynthia Nixon insists anti-gay rhetoric “sets
people up as targets.”
Nixon made her comments on HLN's The
Joy Behar Show.
“I feel that people like Carl
Paladino and all of the ads that have been launched to fight against
legalizing same-sex marriage in different [states] … You know
people hear that. And when you send a message that there are two
different categories of people and one is fully vested with legal
rights and the other is not quite human … It sets those people up
as a target. And that's why we see the bullying,” Nixon said,
referring to the recent rash of gay teens bullied to death. (The
video is embedded in the right panel of this page.)
Nixon, who is openly lesbian, has also
campaigned in favor of the legalization of gay marriage in the Empire
State, where she would like to marry her partner, education activist
Christine Marinoni. Earlier in the month, Nixon
disagreed with NOM President Brian Brown's assertion that marriage
equality redefines marriage, saying, “When women got the vote, they
didn't redefine voting.”