Star Trek Actor To Wed
Actor George Takei better known as ‘Sulu’ from Star Trek fame just announced that he plans marry his partner of 21 years and business manager, Brad Altman. The announcement comes hot on the heels of the announcement by Ellen DeGeneres last Friday that she’ll be making the most of those Californian Same sex marriage laws by marrying her partner Portia De Rossi.
On his website Takei said recently, “As a Japanese American, I am keenly mindful of the subtle and not so subtle discrimination that the law can impose. During World War II, I grew up imprisoned behind the barbed wire fences of U.S. internment camps.
Pearl Harbor had been bombed and Japanese Americans were rounded up and incarcerated simply because we happened to look like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.
Fear and war hysteria swept the nation. A Presidential Executive Order directed the internment of Japanese Americans as a matter of national security. Now, with the passage of time, we look back and see it as a shameful chapter of American history…With time, I know the opposition to same sex marriage, too, will be seen as an antique and discreditable part of our history…”
You go girl!
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