This'll be a short diary because there's not a whole lot of info (full disclosure: I can't even watch the video because the computer I'm on has no sound, and it's not-safe-for-work anyway), and a lot of excess commentary on it is really unnecessary, but... I think opponents of gay marriage can pretty much pack it in now, because when the most popular badass in the world thinks you're idiots, your base is pretty much shrunk to nothing.
That's right... delivering a stunner of an announcement, wrestler "Stone Cold" Steve Austin avows himself to be vehemently pro-gay marriage! Frog-splash over the crude drawing of the championship belt for more info.
In a video that's going viral, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin has declared where he stands in this cage match, and it's not where a lot of wrestling fans may have expected.
From a transcript I found here:
I'm for same sex marriage. I don't give a shit if two guys, two gals, guy, gal, whatever it is, I believe that any human being in America, or any human being in the goddamned world that wants to be married, if it's the same sex, more power to them. And, what also chaps my ass, Teddy, is that one of these churches or some of these churches have the high horse that they get on and say "We as a church do not believe in that." Which one of these motherfuckers talked to God and God said these same sex marriages was a no can do. Can you verify, can you give me some 411 on that background, and what's your feelings in general on that subject?
Yeah, he's a wrestler, so this may seem kind of trivial, but with a certain segment of society -- a segment that may need some of the most convincing -- a guy like Stone Cold carries more weight than the pope. If "the Texas rattlesnake" is cool with it, a lot of them are going to feel like they can be cool with it, too. In any case, it can't hurt!
This is probably my favorite celebrity endorsement of a good cause since Lemmy from Motorhead told people not to vote for Mitt Romney.