Brad Pitt on Gay Marriage: Everyone Should Have the Same Rights

by Michael Jones · 2009-08-05 18:21:00 UTC
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A few years ago, Brad Pitt said that he wouldn't marry Angelina Jolie until everyone had full and equal access to marriage, specifically committed gay and lesbian couples.  To stand by that decision, Pitt even gave a significant sum of money to help defeat Proposition 8 in California last fall.

A few years later, Pitt is still standing by his words.  He's interviewed in this coming week's issue of Parade Magazine, and among other things he waxes on about, he dishes a little on his thoughts about marriage.  Here's the quip:

I have love in my life, a soul mate - absolutely. When someone asked me why Angie and I don't get married, I replied, 'Maybe we'll get married when it's legal for everyone else.' I stand by that, although I took a lot of flak for saying it - hate mail from religious groups. I believe everyone should have the same rights. They say gay marriage ruins families and hurts kids. Well, I've had the privilege of seeing my gay friends being parents and watching their kids grow up in a loving environment.

Pretty cool to have probably the most famous male celebrity in the world take such a progressive stand on marriage equality.

Incidentally, Pitt also talks a bit about the subject of love.  His thoughts are pretty relevant to his positions on marriage equality.  Namely, true love should be fostered and protected at all costs.  And everyone deserves that.  Take it away, Bradley:

Do you know how you tell real love? It's when someone else's interest trumps your own. I like to put it that way: trumps your own. Love of somebody else--of family, of your kids--becomes the most important, most worthwhile thing in your life. It's what you foster and protect. You have to recognize real love when it's there and know that in going after it there is always risk. To live with love, you have to chance losing it. That's also true when you decide to have kids. It's the risk you take for love.

Michael Jones is a Change.org Editor. He has worked in the field of human rights communications for a decade, most recently for Harvard Law School.
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