Elisabeth Hasselbeck shows a different side in Logo News interview...
I ripped her a new one last week for drinking the Kool-Aid the Bush administration has been serving but "View" co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck certainly is not a homophobe - even if she doesn't come right out and support gay marriage and supports a political party that has done nothing for the LGBT community.
In an interview with Will Wikle (he was a contestant on 'Big Brother' a few years back and did a terrific job with his questioning), Elisabeth said of Rosie and Kelli O'Donnell: "To be able to witness the love in their family is outstanding...I do believe in this day and age, we need to re-evaluate and think about what is best for the children."
Here is my favorite comment though and makes me believe she is not a total right-wing zealot: "I would challenge people who don't know, or have chosen not to spend time with someone who is gay, to get to know them. I can say that from experience [with] Rosie and other friends too. I have other friends who are gay. I know them. It's much more easy to not know someone, not to engage with them on a daily basis and then go on a campaign to shut down rights and also morally condemn."
More quotes from Elisabeth's interview:
"Obviously, no one is denied the right to marry - you could marry someone of the opposite sex. But if that is not the relationship you're in, you're in trouble then...Because when it comes to things like money and taxes and children and guardianship. It's a very sticky and muddy and unclear pool"
Then she defends her party: "I don't think the Republican party as a whole has a problem with gay people. I think it's more with the legislation. I think when the movement to redefine marriage came about." She then went on to talk about "activist judges" trying to legalize marriage and Will, very brilliantly, asked her about being on the right side of history and mentioned activist judges who ruled against racial discrimination in the 50s. Finally, after a few more very potent questions from Will, Elisabeth said: "If that's what this country wants, through our laws, then that's how it should be."
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