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Rapper Warren G Wants Gays off TV


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Warren G, real name Warren Griffin III, told Vanity Fair, “I ain’t against gay people. I’m just against it being promoted to kids.”

To illustrate his acceptance, the Grammy-nominated rapper explained that he knows some gay people. “I know people that’s gay. My wife’s got friends that are gay. I got family that’s gay. … He’s my homie," he said, according to Vanity Fair.

While he may be acquainted with gays, Griffin does not approve of them showing affection to one another in public. The multiplatinum-selling artist is especially concerned about the effect men kissing on television could have on children. “I just mean that on some of these TV shows, they got dudes kissing," Griffin said. "We can’t have kids growing up with that.”

Griffin suggests that gays keep their affection to themselves, particularly because such acts are not what people were “originally put here to do.”

“I know it happens, but let’s keep it behind the scenes. Ain’t nothing wrong with it if that’s what two dudes want to do. Cool. But that’s not bring that out into the world, where the kids can see that,” adds Griffin. “We don’t want all the kids doing that 'cause that ain’t how we was originally put here to do. Like I said, I ain’t got no problem with the gays.”

Warren G was talking to Vanity Fair to promote his new album, due in October.

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  • Name: fil vina
    Date posted: 12/27/2009 3:04:15 AM
    Hometown: roseville, ca

    Comment:

    In response to Susan Cooper: being gay is NOT a choice. Period. If you think it's a choice, try it for a year, and tell me how you feel about yourself when you're done. America is about FREEDOM. As in i have the FREEDOM to not believe in your mythological bigot of a 'God'. You are narrow minded, and unloving. If there IS a God, he would be ashamed of how you treat his other creations. What are those golden rules again? Judge not, lest ye be judged? Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you? I think you'd do well to practice them a bit more generously. I'll ask my religious friends to pray for you.

  • Name: alicia banks
    Date posted: 9/30/2009 11:57:41 AM
    Hometown: chicago

    Comment:

    see a new blog entry on this etc: NO KISSING MEN SEEN! ON WARREN G. & DERRION ALBERT at OUTLOOK alicia banks

  • Name: John
    Date posted: 9/29/2009 6:25:17 PM
    Hometown: Medina, WA

    Comment:

    I think the real problem in the US is people who think like Susan Cooper. You honestly think you're the majority, when you no longer are. Most people may be against gay marriage, but not gay rights. We do NOT live in a theocracy. Not everyone worships your god or has a narrow mind as you do.

  • Name: Nathan
    Date posted: 9/29/2009 5:49:28 PM
    Hometown: Lake Worth

    Comment:

    Susan Cooper shall surely be put to death, for she is an abomination. That is the word of God.

  • Name: Gwen
    Date posted: 9/29/2009 4:43:46 PM
    Hometown: Beaumont

    Comment:

    Amen Scott, he is a redneck and its so sad how my community, Afro-American, has forgotten so quickly how it feels to be discriminated against. Bigotry is a triplet sibling to ignorance and hatred. Please all you homophobes, educate yourselves and stop regurtating the ignorance you are being fed. Hatred and bigtry are learned behaviors and ignorance is a product of the uneducated.

  • Name: Susan Cooper (my real name)
    Date posted: 9/29/2009 2:54:30 PM
    Hometown: Portland, OR

    Comment:

    I agree 100000000000%. Regardless of what anyone say I staunchly beleive being gay is a choice and an unnatural one at that. Now to be fair I will change my mind when two same sex people can reproduce and populate the earth forward. And when the rebuttals start coming in it does not count that a traditional couple can't reproduce because they have some infertility problems. If they didn't they would be able to reproduce. I am not a hater just a traditionalist and proud to be one. Thank God some people are brave enough to speak up for fear of being boycotted

  • Name: Nathan
    Date posted: 9/29/2009 12:31:35 PM
    Hometown: Lake Worth

    Comment:

    People like him want children "protected" from gays until they are old enough to understand duplicity: saying you love and accept gays, but acting differently.

  • Name: scott
    Date posted: 9/29/2009 12:19:15 PM
    Hometown: Birmingham, AL

    Comment:

    This dude is a fucking redneck. Yep, REDNECKS come in all shapes and colors. Did it cross his lil mind that some people said the same things regarding blacks only a few years ago?

  • Name: Jessica K
    Date posted: 9/29/2009 9:49:50 AM
    Hometown: NJ

    Comment:

    Like the "children" need to hear your ass rapping about and glorifying prison culture & drugs. What a looser.

  • Name: ArtNOLA
    Date posted: 9/29/2009 9:22:14 AM
    Hometown: New Orleans

    Comment:

    There was a time when people said the same thing about interracial marriage. Lets try backpedalling on that and see what happens. Lets say that you can't show an interracial couple kissing on television because we don't want our children seeing that and see what happens. What makes me so mad about this is when any group who was or is discriminated against advocates any kind of discrimination against another group.

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