Rosie O’Donnell: ‘Not Even Lesbians’ Would Cater Their Wedding with Pizza

In one of her first big public appearance since leaving The View earlier this year, Rosie O’Donnell hosted a “town hall” interview this week with gay rights activist Michelangelo Signorile, author of It’s Not Over: Getting Beyond Tolerance, Defeating Homophobia, and Winning True Equality. Naturally, the subject of Indiana’s “religious freedom” laws came up during the conversation.

O’Donnell wanted to know how Gov. Mike Pence (R-IN) could get away with saying, essentially, “I am for persecution, I am for bigotry.”

In Signorile’s view, people like Pence and those who support the “religious freedom” laws are simply finding ways to “turn themselves into the victims.” And while that can “play to a certain part of the public,” he said the gay rights movement has to “fight against that.”

On the Indiana pizza restaurant that was forced to close down after receiving threats due to its pro-discrimination stance, O’Donnell remarked, “Gays were going to cater their wedding with pizza? Not even lesbians would do that.”

“We might have a potluck, we have bring your own chili,” she added. “But that’ only if financial situations are tough.”

Regardless of whether you agree with her sentiments or not, this week would have been a good one to have O’Donnell on The View’s couch.

Watch video below, via SiriusXM:

[Photo via screengrab]

— —

>> Follow Matt Wilstein (@TheMattWilstein) on Twitter

New: The Mediaite One-Sheet "Newsletter of Newsletters"
Your daily summary and analysis of what the many, many media newsletters are saying and reporting. Subscribe now!