Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have been vocal about their support of gay marriage over the past couple of years, even saying they won’t get married until people in same-sex relationships can too.
So we wonder what Brad thinks of this letter penned to a local paper in the town of Simpson, Missouri…
The author of the letter? His mum, Jane.
Jane wrote to express support of Mitt Romney and opposition to Obama’s support of same-sex unions:
I have given much thought to Richard Stoecker’s letter (“Vote for Mormon against beliefs,” June 15). I am also a Christian and differ with the Mormon religion.
But I think any Christian should spend much time in prayer before refusing to vote for a family man with high morals, business experience, who is against abortion, and shares Christian conviction concerning homosexuality just because he is a Mormon.
Any Christian who does not vote or writes in a name is casting a vote for Romney’s opponent, Barack Hussein Obama — a man who sat in Jeremiah Wright’s church for years, did not hold a public ceremony to mark the National Day of Prayer, and is a liberal who supports the killing of unborn babies and same-sex marriage.
I hope all Christians give their vote prayerful consideration because voting is a sacred privilege and a serious responsibility.
There was some initial confusion about whether Jane Pitt was the author. But the editor later wrote: “To clear up earlier confusion, the News-Leader has verified the letter writer is the mother of actor Brad Pitt and local businessman Doug Pitt”
In other Pitt family news, Brad’s brother Doug recently starred in a Virgin Mobile Australia ad. And he’s hilarious.
Top Comments
The sooner these religious types realise that marriage is separate to their church, the better.
Just declare "no gay marriages will ever happen in our church" and mind your own damn business about what anyone else does!
Stop the insanity! Has anybody given thought to the messed up mob of humans that are emerging. No one is denying same-sex couples live as they please. To rewrite the marriage law is ridiculous. Why not create their own ceremony of union, just leave what's been constitutional law alone. Create their own. How confusing for future generations...husband and husband/ wife and wife/mother and mother/father and father??? Come on, this will create a rudderless generation of sexually/morally lost souls of poor children who are already bombarded with disgusting insidious pornography on pretty much every turn...
Kateris, you are a disgrace.
Agreed. Many are in favour of gay unions, but most are against them calling it marriage. I'm in favour of gays having the same legal and Power of Attorney rights, but if they marry then that raises the children issue and much as I have no problems with them marrying, them raising children is still a big sticking point for me. I think its wrong and unhealthy for the children, whose rights should come first, not the adults. I admit this is how I feel, and I've tried to overcome it but what I feel and believe is what I truly feel and believe. Marriage yes, children, no.
May I ask if you have any evidence for your decision? People who are gay don't necessarily raise "gay children" because if that were the case heterosexual couples wouldn't ever have gay children. There is no evidence that people who are gay are more likely to molest children (being homosexual and a paedophile are vastly different) Also there is no higher rate of break ups between homosexual couples and heterosexual couples.
I'm not criticizing you or your opinion, I'm just wondering if there is a reason for you beliefs or is it simply how you feel?
I wasn't referring to gay children, molestation or broken homes - just meant that I believe children deserve, and need, to be created and brought into this world, all things considered ie separations/divorce, with a mother and a father. Both sexes are the opposite of, and compliment each other and thus provide separate role models for children. Its a yin and yang thing.