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Jay-Z has no problem with gay marriage
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 16 May 2012
It seems fairly ridiculous to me that there is any debate about who can get married to who. If people want to marry each other, why would you stop them? Really, it’s just a contract that says they can have each other’s stuff, isn’t it? And that they won’t be dicks to each other. And I was always told that sharing and being niceto people was a good thing, even if such things are done partly because of a legal requirement.
Anyway, Jay-Z agrees with me, and so does Barrack Obama, so I think I’m in good company. Obama recently announced publicly that he was in favour of same-sex couples getting married and now, because it’s apparently a thing that people are being asked a lot at the moment, CNN has got Jay-Z to say the same. Whether we really needed to know the rapper’s opinion on this matter I don’t know, though, to be fair, there do seem to be a lot of people out there who don’t like the idea of people being happy and getting on with their lives, so maybe it is a question that should be brought up when interviewing influential folks like Jay-Z.
The rapper said in an interview on Monday: “I’ve always thought it [not letting same-sex couples marry] as something that was holding the country back. What people do in their own homes is their business, and you can choose to love whoever you love. That’s their business. [It] is no different than discriminating against blacks. It’s discrimination plain and simple”.
