Keith Olbermann Prop 8

MSNBC pundit Keith Olbermann spoke in opposition to California's passage of the ban on gay marriage, known as Proposition 8. In an emotional six-minute commentary, during the "Special Comment" segment of his show, Olbermann called the vote to ban the same-sex marriages "horrible."TV Guide: Keith Olbermann Inks New Deal, Lets Loose on California Gay Marriage Ban (November 11, 2008) Olbermann asked voters, "What if somebody passed a law that said you couldn't marry?"MSNBC: Olbermann: Gay Marriage Is a Question of Love (November 10, 2008)

Olbermann Quotes on Prop 8

"This isn't about yelling, and this isn't about politics, and this isn't really just about Prop-8. And I don't have a personal investment in this: I'm not gay, I had to strain to think of one member of even my very extended family who is, I have no personal stories of close friends or colleagues fighting the prejudice that still pervades their lives. And yet to me this vote is horrible. Horrible."MSNBC: Olbermann: Gay Marriage Is a Question of Love (November 10, 2008)

"I keep hearing this term "re-defining" marriage. If this country hadn't re-defined marriage, black people still couldn't marry white people. Sixteen states had laws on the books which made that illegal in 1967. 1967."MSNBC: Olbermann: Gay Marriage Is a Question of Love (November 10, 2008)

"The parents of the President-Elect of the United States couldn't have married in nearly one third of the states of the country their son grew up to lead. But it's worse than that. If this country had not "re-defined" marriage, some black people still couldn't marry black people. It is one of the most overlooked and cruelest parts of our sad story of slavery."MSNBC: Olbermann: Gay Marriage Is a Question of Love (November 10, 2008)