Los Angeles, CA -
Actor Brad Pitt tells W Magazine that people who deny gay and lesbian couples the right to get married do not understand freedom.
"People who are against gay marriage do not understand the very freedoms that they themselves are enjoying," Pitt says in an interview running in the magazine's February issue.
In September the screen star Esquire that he and fiancée Angelina Jolie refuse to marry until their gay and lesbian counterparts can do the same.
That same month, Pitt donated $100,000 to the campaign against Proposition 8 in California.
The ballot measure, which ended legal gay marriages in the state, passed with 52% of the vote in November. Gay rights groups have since filed briefs with the California Supreme Court asking it to declare Proposition 8 invalid.
"People who are against gay marriage do not understand the very freedoms that they themselves are enjoying," Pitt told W Magazine.
"What if someone said, ‘Sorry, no Christianity here? No Judaism. Certainly no Mormons.' No one would stand for that," Pitt added, "and I wouldn't allow anyone to say that either. I'd fight them in the same way."
In the W Magazine interview, the actor also denied that an affair with Angelina Jolie ended his relationship with Jennifer Aniston.
"People who are against gay marriage do not understand the very freedoms that they themselves are enjoying," Pitt says in an interview running in the magazine's February issue.
In September the screen star Esquire that he and fiancée Angelina Jolie refuse to marry until their gay and lesbian counterparts can do the same.
That same month, Pitt donated $100,000 to the campaign against Proposition 8 in California.
The ballot measure, which ended legal gay marriages in the state, passed with 52% of the vote in November. Gay rights groups have since filed briefs with the California Supreme Court asking it to declare Proposition 8 invalid.
"People who are against gay marriage do not understand the very freedoms that they themselves are enjoying," Pitt told W Magazine.
"What if someone said, ‘Sorry, no Christianity here? No Judaism. Certainly no Mormons.' No one would stand for that," Pitt added, "and I wouldn't allow anyone to say that either. I'd fight them in the same way."
In the W Magazine interview, the actor also denied that an affair with Angelina Jolie ended his relationship with Jennifer Aniston.
