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Via CNS News:
In a speech at GLAAD’s Media Awards on Saturday, “Scandal” star Kerry Washington compared the gay marriage movement to the fight for black people to be able to marry outside their race.
Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres presented the Vanguard award to Washington.
In her speech, Washington said: “In 1997, when Ellen made her famous declaration [that she is gay], it took place in an America where the Defense of Marriage Act had just passed months earlier, and civil unions were not yet legal in any state. But also remember, just 30 years before that, the Supreme Court was deciding that the ban against interracial marriage was unconstitutional.
In 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court declared Virginia’s anti-miscegenation statue, also known as the Racial Integrity Act of 1924, unconstitutional in Loving v. Virginia.
“Up until then, heterosexual people of different races couldn’t marry who they wanted to marry either,” Washington said. “So when black people today tell me that they don’t believe in gay marriage, the first thing that I say is: ‘please don’t let anybody try to get you to vote against your own best interests by feeding you messages of hate,’ and then I say, ‘you know people used to say stuff like that about you and your love, and if we let the government start to legislate love in our lifetime, who do you think is next?’”
Washington’s character, Olivia Pope, had an affair with the fictional president Fitzgerald “Fitz” Thomas Grant III, a white man.