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I love the beginning of your article, I laughed out loud so much. Thanks for the belly laughs! 😅👏 I also don't watch the oscars, but I do like to watch the highlights afterwards. I found the whole episode of the slap and his speech very strange, his speech particularly struck me as cut off from reality. I wonder about his mental health.

I think there's a lot of complication and nuances regarding marriages, homosexual marriages, and social programs like welfare. You wrote a lot about their personal marriage, of which you really know nothing about besides what's in the media. I know people in homosexual marriages that have more traditional "family values" than some heterosexual marriages. It's the health of the individual people in the marriage and their dedication to a healthy marriage and healthy family structure that as the best chance of raising healthy kids that's important to me, not whether people are gay or straight.

I grew up poor and if it wasn't for social programs, it would have been much harder for our family to be fed when I was growing up and not sure if I would have made it through grad school. So to me there's lots of shades of "good" and "bad" through all of these issues.

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