HolyCoast: Stop the Presses! Hollywood Star Apologizes for Intolerance
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Friday, January 23, 2009

Stop the Presses! Hollywood Star Apologizes for Intolerance

This must be all part of that hope and change:
Tom Hanks says he's sorry he told FOXNews.com that Mormons who supported California's constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage were "un-American."

"Last week, I labeled members of the Mormon church who supported California's Proposition 8 as 'un-American,'" the actor said in a statement through his publicist. "I believe Proposition 8 is counter to the promise of our Constitution; it is codified discrimination."

"But everyone has a right to vote their conscience; nothing could be more American," the statement continues. "To say members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints who contributed to Proposition 8 are 'un-American' creates more division when the time calls for respectful disagreement. No one should use 'un- American' lightly or in haste. I did. I should not have."

Good for Hanks to realize the error in what he said and to correct it. That shows a lot more class than we usually see out of Hollywood.

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