O'Donnell: No Plans To Remarry...Yet

Waiting Until Same-Sex Marriage Recognized Nationwide

(AP)  Ellen DeGeneres is doing it. So is George Takei. But Rosie O'Donnell isn't jumping at the chance to walk down the aisle.

O'Donnell and her girlfriend, Kelli Carpenter, were married four years ago when the mayor of San Francisco allowed same-sex marriages. The California Supreme Court later declared such marriages invalid.

Now the state's highest court has ruled that denying same-sex marriages was discriminatory, and many gay and lesbian couples, including DeGeneres and girlfriend Portia de Rossi and Takei and his partner, Brad Altman, are planning to tie the knot.

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Photos: Same-Sex Marriages

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O'Donnell told AP Radio that she and Carpenter are "going to wait until it's legal everywhere, because otherwise, I said to Kelli, we'll be going around touring the country on the marriage tour every state by state."

"Once it gets to be at the federal level, once every state recognizes the marriages of every other state, I think that'll be the time we would do it," the 46-year-old comedian said.

Asked if she thought that time was near, O'Donnell replied, "Yes."

"The same way it was illegal for black and white people to marry at one point and people couldn't conceive of that ever being different, I do think that two consenting, law-abiding adults who want to share their life together should be allowed to do that," she said.

[barbaraf4]

Kelli Carpenter seems like a sweet, gentle person. Her face is frozen in a permanent smile, every hair is always in place, and I have never heard her say a word. Does she have a voice? She is like a Stepford Wife.

This bull **** is the face of same *** marriages.

[keithle1]

You can marry a blow up *** doll for all I care. Just leave me alone.

[avigil2]

To FireCEOs and all you other bigots: do you have a problem with the Brittany Spears or the Pamela Andersons who take marriage for granted? Why don''t you go after them? I''ll tell you why. Because you don''t care. Why should you care anyway? Consenting adults. Law abiding citizens. Men with men. Women with women. Who cares! Let people live their lives as they see fit, not as others think they should live. Sheesh!

[clevercandi]

I have to disagree with you FireCEOs.

Why should the federal government have a right to tell you whom you can and cannot marry?

How would you like it if the federal government told you how many children you can have (like China)?

[fireceos]

Oh, they edited G a y s, but not gay. Interesting.

[fireceos]

Marriage is defined as one man, one woman PERIOD. *** can have their ''civil unions'' and get rights or whatever, but marriage is not the term that should be used. I have no problem with people who are born gay or choose to be gay. But its not marriage.

Domestic Partnership is a better term, legally and otherwise. That way, roommates can have the same benefits as gay marriage proponents. Just because someone claims to have a sexual relationship does not make them entitled nor allow them to exclude from entitlement certain rights that marriages (family) provide.