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BY LifeSiteNews.com By James Tillman NEW YORK, May 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)—Elisabeth Hasselbeck, usually judged the right-leaning co-host of ABC's The View, has recommended that conservatives stop "hating on" same-sex "marriage." "Instead of just talking about it and hating on it," she said, "actually talk to someone who’s loved [a member of the same sex] and have the conversation about what can be done." The discussion on The View was sparked by Laura Bush's recent announcement on Larry King Live that she was in favor of both gay "marriage" and legal abortion, a position the hosts of The View applauded. In that announcement, Laura Bush implied that those who disagreed with gay "marriage" did so because of inexperience with the issue, a position Hasselbeck seemed to support. "I think there are a lot of, maybe, conservatives out there who are talking about gay marriage and not necessarily with someone who wants to have gay marriage or has been in a gay 'marriage,'" Hasselbeck said. She continued: "You know, I had Melissa Etheridge over, we had dinner, we talked for hours about gay marriage, and I would really challenge people: Get out there." Melissa Etheridge is a rock singer-songwriter and a lesbian activist for homosexuality. Co-host Whoopi Goldberg suggested that Laura Bush's declaration meant that support for same-sex "marriage" and abortion was beginning find room in conservatism.  "I think both are interesting because the visual that we have – or that many people have – of conservatives is it’s no to gay 'marriage,' no to pro-choice, no to this, no to that, and you cannot assume," said Goldberg.Although Hasselbeck is cast as the conservative co-host of The View, this was not the first time she haa spoken in favor of a homosexualist position. In a 2007 interview she supported legal adoption for homosexual couples, and opined that Republicans were against same-sex "marriage" out of rebellion against activist court rulings, rather than against the issue itself. http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/hasselbeck-conservatives-should-stop-hating-on-gay-marriage/

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