Portia De Rossi Talks About Gay Marriage on The View

"It's just simply a civil rights issue," so says Portia de Rossi on Friday's The View. There to promote the second season of her ABC sitcom Better Off Ted, de Rossi spent the bulk of her time there discussing the importance of marriage equality with hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Elizabeth Hasselbeck and Sherri Shepherd. "Without the word, we don't have equal rights," she said to cheers from the audience, "because everybody is allowed to be married. The word actually does mean something," she added. The actress, who married everyone's favorite talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres on Aug. 16, 2008, said that when she last visted the ABC morning talker in 2003 she was terrified that she'd be asked about her personal life. Full Story from Shewired: http://www.shewired.com/Article.cfm?Section=2&ID=24049

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