The View: Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Melissa Ethridge Argue Over Gay Marriage

"The View"--December 16, 2008

Melissa Ethridge stops by The View to talk about her new Christmas Album in addition to talk about Equality for Gay Couples. The Conversation quickly become very heated between Ethridge and Elisabeth Hasselbeck--the two argue over the passage of Propostion 8 In California and the issue of Gay Marriage.

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[Mintsauce27]

All i know is we are all naked apes on this little rock flying through space.

[Mintsauce27]

@sgal88 - God is cool with it. She made em after all! :)

[enshams92]

There is no gene for being gay. The end.

[Mintsauce27]

@UltraProle21 I Love you man! :)

[UltraProle21]

@Mintsauce27 you're an idiot. this country needs to be cleansed of homos, dikes, religitards, and minorities.

[Fireflygamer]

studies have been do to show that people that are sexually abused are no more likely to be gay then the general population and that gay people are just as likely as straight people to have been abused no more and no less. all the evidence points to the fact that being gay is inborn and none of it points to nurture, ignoring this evidence in favor of a 2000 year old book that says the sun goes round the earth is ignorant. what evidence to you have that its a learned behavior?

[Fireflygamer]

@redgoldbluephantom your just wrong, it was a scientific fact that parents pass traits onto there children long before we even knew what a gene was. also when did i say it being in born was a scientific fact. what is a scientific fact is that if one identical twin is gay there is a 50% chance the other is gay and with non identical twins its only 10% that suggests a genetic factor. Its a scientific fact that being sexually abused as a child dose not make you gay, because...

[redgoldbluephantom]

@Fireflygamer For a trait to be scientifically deemed inborn, there has to be empirical evidence. The only way this can be proven (empirically) is on the genetic level. "Suggested evidence" is not recognized by science as fact.

[rhudsonrte66]

Elizabeth is just a foul backward twit. She is a truly deeply stupid lady. And so confident.

[M15949]

what we need to do is start passing laws that fuck with the social righties the same way they like to fuck with everybody else.

Hey bubba ray jim, today, you have to pray to mecca in arabic

[Fireflygamer]

@redgoldbluephantom first were did i claim that they did, I'm not sure if they have or not, I hear conflicting reports, but if they have identified the gene or not,it dose not matter. All the evidence suggest that being gay or straight is inborn and that it is not caused how you are raised or a symptom of abuse. To ignore the mountains of evidence simply because they have not identified the gene, just because of your personal feelings towards gays is to be ignorant.

[redgoldbluephantom]

@Fireflygamer Scientific inquiry has found genes that determine physical characteristics and even behavioral dispositions, but a gay gene has yet to be found.