Portia de Rossi was on ‘The View’ today and the very conservative Elisabeth Hasselbeck asked Portia if she thought the word marriage was really that important for gay people. “Take men and women. Women want all the rights of men, but they’re not asking to be called men,” Elisabeth said. “Do you think…is the word [marriage] more important than the rights?” Portia tried to make Elisabeth understand her side of things: “No, of course the word isn’t more important than the rights,” Portia responded. “Without the word, we don’t have equal rights.” “Every citizen of this country should have that legal right to be married,” she argued. “Marriage the word actually does mean something because people who see a gay coupling as a lesser thing in society can continue to [think] it’s lesser than marriage when really it’s the exact same thing. The exact same love, the exact same commitment, love of family.” Portia is legally married to Ellen DeGeneres because the two were married before Prop 8 banned gay marriage in California. The state let those who married during that “open window” keep their married status after the ruling. Photos by WENN

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Portia de Rossi Gives Elisabeth Hasselbeck Something To Think About