– Noted marriage equality supporter and renowned stoner Brad Pitt speaking with MTV News about the disparity between legalizing gay marriage and legalizing marijuana.
What he says here makes sense… As a strategy, linking the freedom to use cannabis for personal consumption to marriage equality is a loser. Each issue can stand on its own merits.
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It’s like the continual linking of being gay with being transgendered. Two totally different things that only serve to confuse the public.
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Its political reality. In the Southwest, gay marriage and immigration reform go hand in hand. Nothing much to do with each other except they are both hot button issues.
It’s like gay marriage and contraception. There’s no real link.
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I suppose we Washingtonians can take the blame for the current linkage of the two disparate issues, since both were on November’s ballot in our state.