06/05/2008
Rosie O'Donnell says She'll Wait to Marry
Rosie O'Donnell, who married her partner Kelli Carpenter at a ceremony in San Francisco's City Hall in February of 2004 after Mayor Gavin Newsom gave the go-ahead, says she'll wait this time before getting remarried:
"O'Donnell told AP Radio that she and Carpenter are 'going to wait until it's legal everywhere, because otherwise, I said to Kelli, we'll be going around touring the country on the marriage tour every state by state....Once it gets to be at the federal level, once every state recognizes the marriages of every other state, I think that'll be the time we would do it," the 46-year-old comedian said. Asked if she thought that time was near, O'Donnell replied, 'Yes....The same way it was illegal for black and white people to marry at one point and people couldn't conceive of that ever being different, I do think that two consenting, law-abiding adults who want to share their life together should be allowed to do that,' she said."
Same-sex couples are set to begin marrying on June 17, however, San Francisco officials have asked the state if they can begin marrying couples at 5:01pm on June 16.
Said Newsom: "Unquestionably, we hope to extend beyond 5 o'clock. Why wouldn't we? People have longed for this for 30 and 40 years. I don't think we should deny that just on the basis of a bureaucratic timeline."
Hundreds of couples have reportedly made appointments to marry on the 17th and soon after.
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Man is she lost it.
If she marries in CA...NY will have to honor it....but I can understand how she would want to wait now that her relationship is strained.
Posted by: MCnNYC | Jun 5, 2008 6:21:53 PM
And thousands of rent boys will be set for life when it all goes into effect. Alimony: it's not just for gold digging Vegas strippers any more...
Posted by: Matty | Jun 5, 2008 6:40:33 PM
She actually said the same thing on Derek and Romaine last week, but of course the AP gets the scoop.
Posted by: John | Jun 5, 2008 6:46:56 PM
Fucking love her!
Posted by: Dakota | Jun 5, 2008 6:47:33 PM
Is there any way I could go about kissing Gavin Newsom on the face?
Posted by: Lezbeau | Jun 5, 2008 10:33:23 PM
i said in 2004 that o'donnell was just a spotlight-hogging publicity whore for horning in on san fran's weddings with her celebrity. now, she's proven me correct. if she's going to wait until it's legal everywhere, she's going to be waiting a long time since that will require all the states with constitutional bans to rescind them. if she were really the great gay rights advocate she crowned herself to be, she would get her california marriage license and take it back to her home state to challenge the laws there. what a phony !
Posted by: el polacko | Jun 6, 2008 1:31:20 AM
She's an idiot. I obviously fully support gay marriage, but her last line---"I do think that two consenting, law-abiding adults who want to share their life together should be allowed to do that"---is idiocy. People, gay or straight, can do that with or without a marriage license.
Posted by: Paul R | Jun 6, 2008 2:08:43 PM
I got video of Rosie on vacation once:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uutHf6WCBbE
Posted by: Terri | Jun 10, 2008 8:09:57 PM