Marie Osmond is still being awesome, just giving interview after interview about how cool she is with her Mormon faith and how it doesn’t interfere with her loving and adoring her gay daughter. As we reported earlier this month, Marie Osmond came under some criticism when it was revealed that she had a gay daughter, and some media sources proclaimed that because of Marie’s Mormon faith, she was ashamed of her daughter. Marie quickly responded, giving an interview to an LA radio station and coming out not only in support of her daughter, but for gay civil rights in general, including the right to marry.
Marie’s most recent interview is from Entertainment Tonight (story via OK! Magazine), and Marie has even more to say about her gay daughter Jessica. Marie’s basic argument for loving her daughter seems to be “So what if she’s gay?” I’ve never really been a fan of Marie Osmond, but her eloquence and nonchalant support for her daughter has made me an Osmond convert:
If you expect Mormon Marie Osmond to be anything but supportive of her daughter Jessica, who is a lesbian, you’d be wrong. The entertainer and mother of eight says she’s totally supportive of her eldest child.
“I love my daughter! She’s my baby girl, come on,” she tells Entertainment Tonight. “So what if she’s gay? She’s my daughter and she’s an amazing woman and a good kid. I raised her, she better be good.”
Marie adds that her religion is no impediment when it comes to loving her children, no matter their sexual orientation.
“I think it’s sad when we have to separate something from society. Whether it’s, ‘Oh you’re Jewish,’ and then it was ‘Oh you’re a Mormon,’ or ‘Oh you’re gay.’ I love real people,” she explains. “A lot of women out there have gay children. Who cares? I want love. I’m a Christian and Christ loved everybody.”
Preach it, Marie!
[From OK! Magazine]
As previous articles about Marie Osmond have pointed out, she puts her time where her mouth is. She and brother Donnie appeared in pro-gay marriage posters after the passage of Proposition 8 in California, publicly breaking with the Church of Latter-Day Saints and winning a lot of love from gay activists. But I bet the best part for Marie is that her daughter knows she’s got her mother’s full support.
Marie Osmond is shown promoting her “Race for the Cure” doll to benefit breast cancer on 5/2/09 in Las Vegas. Credit: PRPhotos
Never been a fan, but she definitely rocks!
If only all believers (in any kind of faith) were so tolerant…
I watched the Osmonds’ show when I was a kid, had a Donnie and a Marie doll, but eventually Marie passed off my radar.
NOW, I think it’s awesome for her to be such an openly-supportive mother, advocating that loving Christ and your children (no matter what) is the only choice. My son and I have lost all of our family members because of their rigid, unbending, see-it-my-way-or-I-wash-my-hands-of-you beliefs and it hurts; years and years later it STILL hurts. My son, who is 20 now, has seen the effects of this on both me and the quality of our lives–we were invited to one relative’s house for Christmas years ago when my son was 15–with the conditions that:
1. He cut his hair (it was halfway down his back, and gorgeous)
2. He remove his 2 earrings
3. I wear very long sleeves to cover up the small tattoo I have on my right hand and make sure the ones on my ankles were covered at all times.
My son was an honor student; never did drugs, didn’t go wild, has been working steadily since the age of 16, and joined the Marines last year.
I could not be more proud of him.
I told the family then that his hair did not make a difference in who he is; earrings (easily removed, as evidenced by their unreasonable request) did not change a person. Their response was that they didn’t want to “expose” their children to our kind of “element”. What? Needless to say, we declined the invite and have spent every Christmas since then right by ourselves, just the 2 of us. We made our own tradition. I don’t regret my decision, but it still hurts; and will until the day I die.
So, kudos to her–she’s now one of my heroes.
selective tolerance, what could be more American?
I think Marie Osmond is awesome. Her personality on DWTS was terrific – I just loved watching her. She seems to be a ‘don’t sweat the small stuff’ person, and the fact that she sees the sexual orientation of her daugher as irrelevant is how I would like to see every parent of a gay child react. No offense, Carrie, but that is just how I was raised, and it is what I believe.
@nony, I don’t even know what that means. Everyone has selective tolerance. So what?
She’s great. I NEVER understand how anyone could reject or think less of their child in any way because they’re gay.
I’m sorry but, does being gay now automatically make you “awesome”? So much for certain people not wanting to be defined by “what” they are in favor of “who”. I don’t go preaching form the mountain tops about my heterosexuality. Why is it ok the other way around? Just saying.
what kind, loving and -yes- truly christian words from marie. maybe she could give dick cheney a lesson or two in parenting.
She’s talking about it because she’s being asked. I suspect that if no one asked, she wouldn’t make a big deal of it. I don’t think the gay community is the one with the problem honestly.
I read her book about Post-partum depression several years ago. It was such an honest heartfelt book about her struggle. I gained a new respect for her then because she was willing to be so vulnerable.
She’s just being a mom. Good for her!
For an old bird she is bloody gorgeous.
Patrice: who said that being gay automatically makes you “awesome”? and who’s preaching from the mountain tops? If gay people were’nt subjected to hatred, ridicule, violence,and discrimination then there wouldn’t be any issues or declarations from any mountain tops. When you push, eventually people push back. Historically, we’ve been pushing back a short time, about 30 years so quit your fucking pushing and maybe we’ll stop pushing back!
patrice, you’re missing the point, marie is saying her daughter is amazing because she is HER DAUGHTER, not because she is gay. you might be a jackass, but that’s not because you’re straight, it’s because you’re a jackass