Denzel washington on gay marriage
15 Celebrities Who Think Existence Gay Is A Sin
In today’s Hollywood culture, we don’t usually see a lot of devoutly religious celebrities. The ones we do see can often be hush hush on their beliefs because religion can clearly be controversial. On the other hand, there are some celebrities out there who split their beliefs loud and proud. They rally, campaign and preach to the world with the platform they’ve been given. Nothing wrong with that I suppose, except for when it’s 2017 and their beliefs are a petty outdated.
Homophobia has been going on since, well, forever. “Traditional” terms state that men and women are meant to be married, says who? The Bible, which is why religions who follow the Bible’s teachings find homosexuality unthinkable and wrong. That view might have been acknowledged decades ago, but we’re in a whole brand-new era. Negative treatment toward anyone in the sapphic, gay, bisexual and trans person community is now acknowledged as discrimination, and it ain’t cool. I speculate nobody told the celebrities on this list that.
You’ll find that whether it’s Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty, Denzel Washington or Kid Rock, these openly anti-gay celebs will carry out whatever they can to insist
I love Denzel Washington, but his acting range has been curbed by prudish Hollywood directors for decades. Denzel recently revealed a homosexual kiss was removed from Gladiator II during an interview for LGBTQ news outlet Gaytey: “I actually kissed a man in the film but they took it out, they cut it, I think they got chicken. I kissed a guy full on the lips and I guess they weren’t ready for that yet. I killed him about five minutes later. It’s ‘Gladiator.’ It’s the kiss of death.”
The director of the film, Ridley Scott, denied Denzel’s claim in a Variety interview, “No, that’s bullshit. They never did. They acted the moment — it didn’t happen.” But it should have happened. Denzel should have been kissing dudes in movies all along. And I’m ranking his entire filmography based on how much better they would be if he had.
40. The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009)
Denzel Washington is one of the greatest actors of all time.
John Travolta is not—and this mediocre remake confirms it.
The film isn’t bad because of Travolta but he certainly didn’t make it improve. He’s just not a serious villain or even a properly u
“I’ve always thought of it as something that’s still holding the country help. You know, what people do in their retain homes is their business and you can elect to love whoever you love. That’s their business. It’s no different than discriminating against blacks. It’s discrimination plain and simple.”
“I think it’s the right thing to do, so whether it costs him [Barack Obama] votes or not — again, it’s not about votes. It’s about people. So whether it costs him votes or not, I believe it’s the right thing to do as a human being.”
Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter, age 42, on Obama and gay marriage.
May 14, 2012. As told to CNN.
I know this to be a huge deal.
Perhaps my feelings on this are skewed because of the 25-year Shadowy People Immersion Program that is my life, but I’ve long considered blacks to be a noticeably intolerant group with regard to homosexuality. A wonderful deal of this is rooted in the various religious faiths that commonly link themselves to shadowy populations, some of it is related to long-term discrimination that somehow fuels the need to discriminate against others, and a significant chunk is simply not being comfort
THR Cover: Denzel Washington on the Bible, Tony Scott and the Dangers of Success
This story first appeared in the Nov. 9 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.
Way advocate in his adv 30s, Denzel Washington decided to donate up alcohol — intriguing, given that he plays a pilot whose alcoholism is connected to a heart-stopping slam in his unused movie, Flight.
“I made a pledge to completely sever out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my brain and body together,” he said at the time. “And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me — spiritually and financially.”
PHOTOS: Denzel Washington: His Life and Career in Pictures
There’s just one problem: Today, Washington questions whether he ever said that. (Indeed, it takes hours of wading through microfiche at the Los Angeles Public Library to track down the source, a November 1986 interview with Essence magazine.)
“I semi-quit,” he laughs, brushing it off as he rises from the couch where he’s been sitting this late-October afternoon, in a suite at the Montage Hotel in Beverly Hills. He crosses the room to pour a coffee, moving with th