Posted on 02/01/2019 9:22:25 AM PST by Ennis85
A "fired up" Ellen Page slammed the Trump administration, and in particular Vice President Mike Pence, for its anti-LGBTQ policies and rhetoric during an emotional interview on The Late Show on Thursday night.
Touching upon the Tuesday attack on Empire actor Jussie Smollett in what Chicago police are calling a possible hate crime, Page said that it was "impossible to not be fired up" with the political situation in the country at the moment. Page focused her ire on Pence, the former governor of Indiana, for his ultra-conservative views on same-sex marriage and conversion therapy.
“It feels impossible not to feel this way right now with the president and the Vice President Mike Pence, who wishes I could not be married, let’s just be clear,” the Gaycation star said. “The vice president of America wishes I didn’t have the love with my wife. He wanted to ban that in Indiana, he believes in conversion therapy, he has hurt LGBTQ people so badly as the governor of Indiana,” she added as Late Show host Stephen Colbert held up a picture of Page and her wife, Emma Portner.
Page then suggested that you could "connect the dots" between the policies and rhetoric of people in power and the attack on Smollett and other minorities and marginalized people.
"If you are in a position of power and you hate people and you want to cause suffering to them, you go through the trouble, you spend your career trying to cause suffering, what do you think is going to happen? Kids are going to be abused, and they’re going to kill themselves and people are going to be beaten on the street,” a visibly angry Page said.
Fighting back tears, Page then alluded to her Viceland show Gaycation, which explores LGBTQ stories from around the world. “I have traveled the world and I have met the most marginalized people you could meet,” she said.
She added: “I am lucky to have this time and the privilege to say this. This needs to fucking stop.”
Indeed freak show people are a no sale now days.
I listened to Tammy Bruce on the radio in L.A. for years and remember well her talking about when SHE WAS one of THEM! I also never heard her use any profanity then or even now when she appears on FOX cable. I really like her. What wasn’t to like about someone who wasn’t afraid to speak up and criticize the idiocy of NOW? She was the president of the Los Angeles chapter of NOW as I recall until she called it quits!
I’ll never forget when she spoke about the night of the L. A. riots. About going home and getting in bed with a bottle of wine and a gun.
Years ago she became one of Dr. Laura’s best supporters when she (Tammy) went to her (Dr. Laura) defense after she was so viciously attacked by the “gay” community in L. A. They appeared on the same L. A. radio station and maybe hadn’t crossed paths before but Tammy didn’t waste any time speaking up for her. Tho’ I’d liked her show before, I became a bigger fan after that.
I always thought page was an up and coming actress. Now she has changed careers to irrelevant wannabe activist
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Odd how the left keeps threatening other people. Seems like every day they (democrats progressives liberals socialists) threaten somebody.
I will never threaten anyone. If you threaten someone you lose the element of surprise.
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If you threaten someone you lose the element of surprise
What’s an Ellen Page, and who cares?
Who the heck is Ellen Page and who cares what she says?
(Don’t bother answering - I really don’t care - just being rhetorical...)
A few years ago when all those celebratory sex photo’s were leaked. From what I heard Ellen Page’s were the worst. She was having it with two guys. Both ways.
Marginalize yourself then blame everyone else for your marginalization.
Why should I give a rat’s hiney what Ellen Page says?
“The vice president of America wishes I didn’t have the love with my wife.”
Do you have the speaking with English?
Ellen Page, not “Ellen Degenerate”
MAGA hats in Chicago??? Give me a break Ellen!
Tammy Bruce is one of good “gays”
(((YAWN))) Lighten up Ellen.
“Hurt gays so bad”? WTH?
Time to put on you big girl panties.
This is Ellen Page, not Ellen DeGeneres, although they both are of, um, the same persuasion.
Is she not a lesbian? If so, what value does her opinion have?
Wrong Ellen but still a Degenerate. My bad.
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