DeGeneres Gets in Argument with McCain Over Gay Marriages

Ventura County Star

TV host Ellen DeGeneres has gotten into an argument with U.S. presidential hopeful John McCain after the politician expressed his opposition to gay marriage. 

McCain, who made an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres show Thursday, told the lesbian celebrity that he is a believer in the “unique status of marriage between a man and a woman.”

However, he adds that same-sex couples should be permitted to enter into legal contracts for insurance and purposes. 

A week ago, officials in California handed down a ruling that said gay marriages are legal and that those who married during a spate of same-sex weddings at San Francisco’s City Hall back in 2004 will be acknowledged as married couples. 

After announcement of the ruling, DeGeneres announced on her program her engagement to long-time partner Portia de Rossi. 

“We are all the same people, all of us. You’re no different than I am. Our love is the same,” she said.

“When someone says, ‘You can have a contract, and you’ll still have insurance, and you’ll get all that,’ it sounds to me like saying, ‘Well, you can sit there, you just can’t sit there.’

“It feels like we are not, you know, we aren’t owed the same things and the same wording,” DeGeneres said.