DeGeneres, De Rossi Wed In Calif.

Talk Show Host And Actress Tie The Knot In Small Ceremony At Beverly Hills Home

(AP)  There was much dancing: Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi are married, according to reports.

In the biggest celebrity union since California legalized same-sex marriage, DeGeneres, 50, and de Rossi, 35, wed Saturday night in an intimate ceremony at their Beverly Hills home, People and Us Magazine reported.

A publicist for DeGeneres confirmed People's report and gave no
further comment.

After the California Supreme Court's ruling in May, the talk-show host announced that she and de Rossi would wed after four years together.

The ceremony was attended by 19 guests, including DeGeneres's mom Betty and de Rossi's mother Margaret Rogers, who flew in from Australia for the occasion, People.com reported Saturday night.

DeGeneres said after winning her fourth consecutive Daytime Emmy for talk show host in June that a date had not been set, and that she would show "a tiny bit" of the nuptials on her show.

While opponents in California have gathered signatures to put a measure on the November ballot for a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, Hollywood was throwing it support behind the newlyweds.

"One of my favorite people of all time is Ms. Ellen DeGeneres," Katherine Heigel told AP Television at a Hollywood charity event on Saturday night. "So I wish all the best, all the happiness, all the joy that comes with that certificate ... just the joy of being able to stand up and say that. In front of everyone you love and care about in front of each other and to walk away legal is huge."

Tila Tequila, whose dating reality show fame is built somewhat upon her affinity for both men and women, passed along her good wishes - with only one small complaint.

"I love Ellen (DeGeneres) I watch her show all the time," Tequila told AP Television. "I just want to say congratulations and I am really sorry you didn't invite me to your wedding."

[juliemd]

LOL! Once again I am amazed at the narrow-minded, fear-induced beliefs about god and sin exhibited here. I''m with Bill Maher...we Americans, and in fact, humans, are incredibly stupid and unaware.
If all you wish to do is condemn, criticize, and care-not, too bad for you, ''cause that''d be the sin...

[honestabe8]

steelrider: i did read what you wrote. anyone that considers orientation as bad (or sinful) as murder has a warped sense of priorties.

[steelrider51]

READ AGAIN WHAT I SAID. "SIN". MURDER IS SIN, LYING IS SIN, STEALING IS SIN, HOMOSEXUALITY IS SIN, ETC., ETC., ETC. IN GODS EYES SIN IS SIN, PERIOD. NO LITTLE SIN OR BIG SIN. DON`T GET MAD AT GOD. UNDERSTAND THE HIS WAYS ARE FAR ABOVE OURS AND IN HIM, UNLIKE US, THERE IS NO SIN.

[honestabe8]

steelrider...are you seriously equating sexual orientation with murder?

[steelrider51]

IF 2 MEN ROB A STORE, ONE SITS IN THE CAR WHILE THE OTHER GETS OUT AND KILLS A COP WHEN THEY GET PULLED OVER. THEY BOTH GET CHARGHED WITH MURDER. THE GUY IN THE CAR WAS CONSENTING TO THE CRIME.
IF YOU CONDONE OTHERS SIN YOU ARE JUST AS GUILITY OF IT.

[steelrider51]

WHAT IS SIN? ANYTHING THAT IS THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT GOD SAYS IS RIGHT. WHERE DO YOU FIND OUT WHAT GOD SAYS IS RIGHT OR WRONG? THE BIBLE.
WE ALL HAVE A SINFUL NATURE. HOMOSEXUALITY IS JUST ONE OF MANY THINGS THAT ARE SIN. SEXUAL PERVERSION, OF ANY KIND, DOESN`T GIVE ANYONE "RIGHTS". THAT PHONY MARRIAGE WILL NEVER BE BLESSED BY GOD.
THE END RESULT OF SPENDING YOUR LIVE SHAKING YOUR FIST AT GOD WILL BE HELL. A PERSON WOULD BE BETTER OFF NEVER TO HAVE BEEN BORN THEN TO WIND UP IN HELL WHEN THEY DIE.
JESUS WILL FORGIVE YOU OF YOUR SINS AND SAVE YOUR SOUL FROM HELL IF YOU REPENT AND IN YOUR HEART TRUST HIM AS YOUR SAVIOUR. THE BIBLE IS TRUE AND JESUS REALLY DOES LOVE US IN SPITE OF OUR SINS BUT HE WON`T MAKE YOU GET SAVED.
LIFE HAS MANY CHOICES, DEATH HAS BUT 2, HEAVEN OR HELL, WHICH WILL IT BE FOR YOU? YOUR CHOICE.

[taximom9]

I was looking forward to seeing the "Happy Days" reunion then they wanted to show phtos of Ellen and her wedding.I became nauseated and turned the station.

[crptsprdm]

Anyone game to start a pool on how long it''ll last?

[truthislife1]

OK, here''s a few myths of the Bible, ready?

1. God made the heavens and the Earth
2. God made male and female
3. God made animals, fish, birds, and creeping things
4. God made the oceans and the mountains
5. God made mankind with a free choice

Please don''t take any of those literal

[omded]

Everyone''s entitled to their own beliefs. But, remember, that includes these two blessed people as well. Were not all people blessed by God upon their creation?

Do you intend to turn to God some day and say "I obeyed the Bible. Now you HAVE to take me in!" Or "that person didn''t obey the bible. Now you HAVE to cast them away!" Do you intend to order God to adhere to your assumed "covenant"? You can''t own God, and neither does God desire to own you.

You can write bibles and other "holy scriptures" untill the day you pass from this world, but, try as you may, you can never own God. You cannot invent God with a work of fiction, or by writing your beliefs and desires in a book and calling it "holy".

Go now, and believe as you wish. But leave these two people alone.

[avigil2]

Hmmm... Is homosexuality a learned deviant behavior or just a genetic defect?

Posted by far_point200

Neither! You don''t get to choose your sexual orientation folks. If this were so, I would ask each and every one of you (breeders) when did you decide to be STRAIGHT? That''s what I thought.

[blackyowe]

I am not judging these two. That is God''s job and God clearly says marriage is a union of a man and a women so this is not a marriage. That is my only point. If they feel better because they had a cememony so be it but calling it marraige is a joke. Civil union of two people perhaps is what this is. Neither of these wealthy women need protection under the law.

[ajaxrose1]

Why can''t two people feel this way about each other? I''m a straight, married woman with Christian beliefs and I don''t understand the hoopla. It''s not for me or anyone else to say what is right for someone else. Murderers, pedophiles, people who commit crimes, yes we can say they''re wrong because they''re actually hurting someone else. Gay men and women, who are of age, who are consensual (just like straight people) aren''t hurting anyone. IF it''s something that God decides to hold against them, then leave that to God. Worry about your OWN life.

[far_point200]

Hmmm... Is homosexuality a learned deviant behavior or just a genetic defect?

[honestabe8]

Yes, let the deviants be with themselves.

That way we can keep them from further contaminating the gene pool and hopefully in a few generations they will become extinct.
Posted by far_point200

farpoint...are you talking about the homosexuals or the ones quoting the bible?

[avigil2]

That way we can keep them from further contaminating the gene pool and hopefully in a few generations they will become extinct.

Posted by far_point200

We need breeders in this world so that they can continue to produce homosexuals. That''s also called "population control". Have you learned nothing?

[avigil2]

I could careless about gay marriage (cause it doesn''t affect me in the least) but I have to congratulate Ellen and Portia on their nuptials. Good for them.

And as for all of this other bickering; what does heterosexual and homosexual pedophiles have to do with this article. Absolutely nothing! Get a grip people. If it doesn''t concern you (I''m talking to you whiskeyrokkr) get over it and get back to your pathetic, boring lives.

[far_point200]

Yes, let the deviants be with themselves.

That way we can keep them from further contaminating the gene pool and hopefully in a few generations they will become extinct.

[docpeter-2009]

For all the judgmental Christians out here I will only refer you to Mathew Chapter 7: 1-11. The words directly from Jesus:

1
"Stop judging, that you may not be judged.
2
For as you judge, so will you be judged, and the measure with which you measure will be measured out to you.
3
Why do you notice the splinter in your brother''s eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own eye?
4
How can you say to your brother, ''Let me remove that splinter from your eye,'' while the wooden beam is in your eye?
5
You hypocrite, remove the wooden beam from your eye first; then you will see clearly to remove the splinter from your brother''s eye.

I choose leniency. Leave the couple alone, it is their sin and not yours. I know I have way too many sins for myself to worry about theirs.

[honestabe8]

After all, the bible (as well as any book) is only relevant to those that accept its relevance