MacFarlane: Backing Prop. 8 Like Rooting for Sox

In a recent interview with Details, Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane wrote off Prop. 8 and defended an episode of his show that featured a transgender character.

MacFarlane on his recent episode regarding marriage equality: "The ridiculous thing about something like Prop. 8 is that it will be overturned. They put something like $40 million into that campaign, and they might as well have just bet all that money on the Red Sox. It's wasted money because that civil-rights battle will be won eventually. They'll just have to sulk in a corner and accept the fact that gays will be able to marry each other. Every civil-rights conflict — black people, women — comes to an end in the right way."

Many people were unhappy with a recent episode of Family Guy that featured a transgender character — after sleeping with the woman, Brian the dog vomits after realizing she's transgender. The reaction "surprised me," MacFarlane said. "I don't meet a lot of stupid homosexuals. They seem
to be a pretty smart bunch. But it seemed that they were not picking up
on the fact that it was a very sympathetic portrayal of a transsexual
character."

After pointing out Brian's extreme reaction, MacFarlane stated: "Hey, we're still Family Guy. We're not suddenly going to become 7th Heaven. Actually, I guess on 7th Heaven they would probably burn the transsexual at the stake. Let me think of another example. We're not Mr. Belvedere. Look, Brian happens to be a heterosexual character, as I am. If I found out that I had slept with a transsexual, I might throw up in the same way that a gay guy looks at a vagina and goes, 'Oh, my God, that's disgusting.' It's just the way we're biologically wired. They should give that another look."