A few weeks ago actor Rupert Everett came under fire for sticking his foot in his mouth in regards to saying that same sex couples would never make good parents. Now he's clarified his comments in a recent interview with Decca Aitkenhead from the Guardian, saying that gays having babies are beyond hideous:
"For me, being gay was about wanting to do the opposite of the straight world, so I think that's where my problems in this particular area come from. For me, personally, the last thing I would like in the entire world would be to go through cocktailing my sperm with my boyfriend and finding some grim couple in Ohio who are gluten-free and who you pay $75,000 to have your baby. To me it feels absolutely hideous. But that's me, just me. I'm not having a go at gay couples who do. I think if Elton and David want to have babies, that's wonderful. I think we should all do what we want. Isn't there a middle way, where you can just say, 'Not for me, but it doesn't matter'? But no, everything's sort of turned into al-Qaida. I'm sure I'm going to be nail-bombed. David Furnish is probably going to send Patrick Cox with a bomb and blow up the theatre."
Everett adds, on marriage:
"Why do queens want to go and get married in churches? Obviously this crusty old pathetic, Anglican church – the most joke-ish church of all jokey churches – of course they don't want to have queens getting married. It's kind of understandable that they don't; they're crusty old calcified freaks. But why do we want to get married in churches? I don't understand that, myself, personally. I loathe heterosexual weddings; I would never go to a wedding in my life. I loathe the flowers, I loathe the fucking wedding dress, the little bridal tiara. It's grotesque. It's just hideous. The wedding cake, the party, the champagne, the inevitable divorce two years later. It's just a waste of time in the heterosexual world, and in the homosexual world I find it personally beyond tragic that we want to ape this institution that is so clearly a disaster."
Rupert even talks about receiving death threats over his comments:
“I’ve now had all this hate mail and there have been death threats, too,” Everett told The Telegraph at a lunch for his new memoir, The Vanished Years. ”All the queens out there now have it in for me. I’m loathed by them. I’m having to take evasive action.”
Damn bitter much Rupert? People may look at me sideways for saying this, but I kind of agree with sme of Rupert's comments. Everyone should be able to marry and have children if they want to, and if you don't that's fine. But I don't think he should get nasty because gays and lesbians want to have a fairy tale wedding. Personally speaking I don't really see marriage in my future, and there are times that I fantasize about having children. Then I get around my little cousins and my 13-year-old goddaughter and remember why I value my independence.
I feel that we need to learn to accept ourselves befre we look for it from our heterosexual counterparts. If gays want to get married I think that's great. But trying to change the policies of an institution that condemns homosexualiy because you so desperately want to be accepted by the church is in my opinion a waste of time. Besides, there are plenty of places that will marry gay couples, and if a church is not willing to respect and accept me then they can kiss my entire ass. If there is a prime example of gay celebrities that you need to look at to make you step back and reconsider whether or not you want to take that big step, look at Rosie O' Donnell, Melissa Etheridge and K.D. Lang.
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