Hot on the heels of the Vatican’s refusal to bless gay unions, comedian Billy Eichner proposed marriage to Dan Levy. His reasoning: it would make the Pope mad.
Eichner issued his proposal to Levy via Twitter, as part of a much larger rant against the Catholic church. “Can’t a nice gay gentleman like myself just be able to sit here and enjoy Glenn Close’s EIGHTH Oscar nomination without having to see this sh*t?,” Eichner tweeted in response to the church.
Can’t a nice gay gentleman like myself just be able to sit here and enjoy Glenn Close’s EIGHTH Oscar nomination without having to see this shit? https://t.co/QORGPshHAU
— billy eichner (@billyeichner) March 15, 2021
“On a serious note,” he added, “to everyone who goes out of their way to talk about how “cool” this pope is…NO. The Catholic Church has abused the LGBTQ community for MILLENIA. So, go to church if you need to I guess but THAT’s what you’re enabling. Bye!”
On a serious note, to everyone who goes out of their way to talk about how “cool” this pope is…NO. The Catholic Church has abused the LGBTQ community for MILLENIA. So, go to church if you need to I guess but THAT’s what you’re enabling. Bye!
— billy eichner (@billyeichner) March 15, 2021
Levy happened to notice Eichner’s Glenn Close-themed tweet (Close received her eighth Oscar nomination March 15, officially tying her with Peter O’Toole as the most-ever nominated actor without a single win), and had a reply of his own.
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“Never been more jealous of a caption. Kudos,” Levy tweeted.
Eichner then popped the question.
Let’s get married just to make the Pope angry!
— billy eichner (@billyeichner) March 15, 2021
“Let’s get married just to make the Pope angry!” Eichner said.
???
— dan levy (@danjlevy) March 15, 2021
Levy, for the record, didn’t exactly say no either. Instead, he just tweeted emojis of hearts and two boys holding hands.
Both Dan Levy and Billy Eichner have enjoyed wide success as openly gay men in Hollywood in recent years. Eichner has scored four Emmy nominations for his comedy series Billy on the Street, and recently announced he will write and star in a mainstream Hollywood gay-themed romantic comedy. Levy made Emmys history late last year, when he scored Emmy awards for writing, directing and acting in the sitcom Schitt’s Creek all in the same night.
James (controversial2019)
I love Dan Levy; he’s definitely marriage-material.
Billy, less so (for me).
Josh447
Sounds like the man in the frock needs his Twitter account canceled.
Permanently.
Terrycloth
I can’t stand Billy .never could understand why he is famous and what his so called “talent ” is
DarkZephyr
You say that like you were asked.
ted72
I like them both
cuteguy
Can’t ppl understand that the catholic cult only blesses old priests f*cking innocent children? Is it no wonder more and more ppl are leaving all churches altogether. All these cults need to go away, or stay in Fox News land.
Gadfeal
As a pre-teen in a Catholic school, I remember coming to the conclusion that the dichotomy between religious doctrine that homosexuality was “bad”, and my own internal belief in my “goodness”, led me to examine whether Catholicism, and then, ANY religious/belief systems that indoctrinate malleable children’s minds, held any inherent metaphysical validity. My conclusion was that they did not; that they were human organizational entities, born before Reason and Technology could explain phenomena, and maintained by vested interests of ANY human organisation would.
When asked today, “What is your religion?”, I reply that, “I was baptized as a Catholic, but I chose to be rational instead.”
When you have children subjected to chants, prayers and doctrines before they have the psychological capacity to analyze and judge, that is wrong. When you force pre-teens to “swear allegiance” to a flag, a person, an idea or a symbol EVERY DAY at school or church/mosque/temple, you are abusing young minds; even secular judges would not even consider that a child would be capable of fully grasping the meaning and ramifications of “swearing” or “taking an oath”, and refuse to accept them as witnesses in a trial.