ABC’s Hasselbeck Recommends Conservatives Stop ‘Hating’ on Gay Marriage

Newsbusters.org ^ | 05/15/2010 | Brad Wilmouth

[OldDeckHand]

On Thursday’s The View on ABC, during a discussion of Laura Bush’s recent revelation that she disagrees with her husband on the issues of abortion and same-sex marriage, normally right-leaning co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck voiced agreement with the former First Lady, but also used a surprising choice of words as she recommended that conservatives talk to gay couples about the issue rather than "hating" about it. Hasselbeck:

I think there are a lot of, maybe, conservatives out there who are talking about gay marriage and not necessarily with someone who wants to have gay marriage or has been in a gay marriage. You know, I had Melissa Etheridge over, we had dinner, we talked for hours about gay marriage, and I would really challenge people: Get out there. Instead of just talking about it and hating on it, actually talk to someone who’s loved someone else and have the conversation about what can be done...

[Albion Wilde]

Maybr she’s trying to get on the good side of Whoopi?

Whoopi isn't gay. She is a serial heterosexualist.

[nolongerademocrat]

Good side as in: Will Whoopi be the boss while Barbara Walters is gone?

[CatQuilt]

Do you own a home? So you’d be okay with the government no longer giving a mortgage interest deduction either? Is that welfare too?

[avacado]

"Do you own a home? So you’d be okay with the government no longer giving a mortgage interest deduction either? Is that welfare too?"

Address the subject. Your strawman is logical fallacy.