David Letterman Pauses for a Marriage Equality Riff

by Michael Jones · 2009-08-20 09:15:00 UTC
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Kudos to David Letterman for taking advantage of Donald Trump's appearance on his show this week to champion the issue of marriage equality. The audience's reaction to Letterman's comments?  Widespread applause.

Trump was on the show promoting the Miss Universe pageant.  Tangentially tied to the Miss Universe contest is the Miss USA pageant, where earlier this year Carrie Prejean (otherwise known at the time as Miss California) went on to proclaim that opposite marriage is morally superior to same-sex marriage.  Letterman asked Trump what he thought about the brouhaha involving Carrie Prejean, and Trump provided a bit of strange fodder by saying that the only reason people jumped down Carrie Prejean's throat for her marriage comments was because she's so "beautiful."

Or, in other words, nobody gave a damn that Carrie Prejean thought that gays and lesbians should be relocated to a second class status in this country.  Rather, they just didn't like her because she was too pretty.

If that sounds a little crazy, it's because it is.  Thankfully, Letterman didn't let the moment pass without getting a marriage equality riff in.  "Anybody who wants to get married ought to be able to get married."  Cue widespread applause, and cue a little 'eating of the crow' so to speak by the Donald.

Check out the clip below.

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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