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Ashley Jones, Rose McGowan, and Olivia Munn wax political.
[Gay marriage is] an issue television host/author Olivia Munn also got pretty fired up about.
“I’m really upset that Obama, as a Black man, and all the things that the African Americans have gone through after being oppressed, and said ‘you’re less than,’ cannot stand up and say marriage is a union between two individuals who love each other,” she said. “Everyone should be allowed the same rights and if they want to exercise them, they can and if they don’t, they don’t.”
The absurdity here is multifaceted. When it comes to marriage, everyone does have the same rights. Munn’s observation that people need not exercise a right speaks to the more germane point that one retains a right not exercised. In other words, homosexuals’ lack of proclivity toward marriage – as it is defined by society – does not negate their right to marry. A homosexual may marry a member of the opposite sex, just as a heterosexual may. It matters not whether they want to.
Munn’s desire to see Obama arbitrarily redefine marriage reflects the same blood-curdling ignorance expressed by McGowan. It is not for a president to legislate, and it is not for Congress to dictate each states’ family law.
Not every Hollywood celebrity is looking for Obama to flex more muscle. Joey Lawrence is waiting for the “hope” and “change” he was promised by the Great Post-Racial Unifier.
“This was a guy that was going to bring people together and I have yet to see that, and I’d like to see that. If you’re the boss and if you’re the Commander in Chief, then you have to own it,” Lawrence said “Those choices that you make, you can’t pawn them off on the House leader or Senate leader. It’s you! If you write the checks at the end of the day, the buck stops with you. He ran on that and I’d like to see him come through on that.”
Though Lawrence’s grasp of civics is unclear, at least he perceives the disparity between Obama’s campaign rhetoric and what has actually been delivered. The country has never been more divided.
More than her Hollywood peers, True Blood guest star Ashley Jones seems to have her head screwed on straight. Though somewhat aloof, she at least realizes that the point of health care reform ought to be quality.
“I was hoping for a different type of health reform,” Jones said last weekend. “I would like to see him not just trying to equalize everything, but actually make the quality of everything (better). It’s great that we’re having a health care reform, but if the quality will be compromised in any way for the majority just so everyone can have it, it seems counterproductive in some ways.”
Hollywood’s reaction to Obama, if at all indicative of the larger electorate, suggests his low approval ratings reflect diverse complaints. Surely, there are many who oppose both the president’s socialist policy and Marxist philosophy. However, we must not dismiss from our analysis the likely effect of those who don’t feel Obama has been radical enough. Frightening though it may be, that is our reality.
