Stephen Baldwin comes out in support of ex-gaysUK News • Guardian
January 31, 2010
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As the Big Brother house empties, the sublebrities that peopled it clamour for the attention that no doubt led them to first enter what Marina Hyde has dubbed “the Bungalow of the Damned”. One of the latest evictees, the youngest of the Baldwin gang and reality-TV regular, has been on the interview circuit. Talking to Miranda Sawyer of the Observer, this born-again Christian and general dipstick came out against homosexuality. He is all for ex-gays, but opposed to civil partnerships and gay marriage.
“I believe that the family unit has fundamentally been the most positive thing for society and I don’t believe that any minority has the right to create changes that impact on the majority. That’s really the only issue for me.”
His pronouncements make him sound like a modern day, although less-capable, Elmer Gantry … if Gantry were into extreme sports.
As for Big Brother, I am reminded of an observation Gore Vidal made whilst writing about the televised Republican Convention in 1968.
By adding the third character to tragedy, Sophocles changed the nature of drama. By exalting the chorus and diminishing the actors, television has changed entirely the nature of our continuing history. Watching things as they happen, the viewer is part of events in a way new to man. And never is he is much part of the whole as when things do not happen, for, as Andy Warhol so wisely observed, people will always prefer to look at something rather than nothing; between plain wall and flickering commercial, the eyes will have the second. As hearth and fire were once center to the home or lair so now the television set is center of modern man’s being, all points of the room converge on its presence and the eye watches even as the mind dozes, much as our ancestors narcotized themselves with fire.
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How is a committed loving couple getting married going to effect the majority of couples? You may think that what you’re saying is reasonable but it isn’t. Not in any sense or fashion. If you would get your nose out of politics which you are not at all suited for and concentrate on acting lessons you might be able to get real work instead of idiotic reality tv shows that horrify most sensible human beings.
“I believe that the family unit has fundamentally been the most positive thing for society and I don’t believe that any minority has the right to create changes that impact on the majority. That’s really the only issue for me.”
So I guess we should still have blacks as slaves? Women shouldn’t be allowed to vote either?
If government went with the majority on those issues they’d still be in place! People fear change and things they don’t understand. It’s up to the government to show the way on these matters. If they legalize gay marriage then slowly the homophobic people will began to die out and it will be unaccpetable to even think of discriminating against some just because of their sexuality.
It is as if he is out to prove his status as the dimmest of the Baldwins. I can only imagine his reaction when William was kissing Candis Cayne in ‘Dirty Sexy Money’ …
why is he such an idiot for? does stupidity run in his family or something?
Yes, the family is indeed one of the most important parts of society. But what is a family? Using the definition implied, a single Mom or Dad isn’t a family. Are they a threat to society?
What about a grandparent raising a grand child..is that a “Family”?- There are next door neighbors who love and care for children that are not theirs..does that make them any less a part of that family?
What he’s missing is the point of what makes a family…a family -and that is love. Love doesn’t know gender. If you love each one another- you are a family.
He needs to open BOTH eyes and look at the world and see that undermining another human being is what hurts society!
He does say that any “minority shouldn’t have the right to create changes that impact on the majority” and “that was the ONLY issue for him” ergo:
Gay marriage won’t have ANY impact on the Hetros surely. Baldwin therefore doesn’t have any issues with us pooves.
It’s a fairly loose statement, used out of context in this article (in my opinion) to illicit a sensationalised response from us as a community.
It’s often too easy for us to “hate you cos’ you hate us”, but in doing so we are constantly playing the victims and responding in an almost child-like reaction.
Be the big men you are!