Tom Hanks calls Mormons UnAmerican

What? Are you critisizing some one for critising someone? Thats unamerican!!!! Figured I might as well jump on the band wagon with everyone else. I doubt this will get much attention. Sad as it is. There was a church that was vandlized in california over the passing of prop 8. the odd thing was, the church was a church with an openly gay pastor who openly aposed prop 8. Go figure.

I don't think anyone should be called UnAmerican unless they're saying it about a known terrorist! That was my absolute biggest beef during the Bush Administration, when anyone who didn't support the Iraq War or all of Bush's policies regarding that was called unpatriotic or anti-American. It was only a select few who said that, but I found it offensive. It was a big part of what made me dislike Sarah Palin. I could disagree with her politics and still like her as a person but when she started that nonsense at her rallies it just ticked me off to no end. I've always liked Tom Hanks but if he said that I definitely disagree with him and think it was wrong for him to have said it. This is the first I've heard of that interview so I'd have to read or hear his exact words to form an opinion but from what you've said it wasn't right to say. We all have freedom of speech in this country; we also have the freedom to think someone's an a$$hole when they say certain things! Annie

Sheesh! It's getting harder and harder to like celebrities when they keep saying such stupid things. You will, of course, notice that he's not calling black-Americans Un-American despite the fact that over 70% of them voted against gay marriage. See Mormons are one of those groups you are ALLOWED to insult and be prejudiced against. Catholics fall into that category as well, but there are fewer Mormons so they make easier targets. You won't see Tom Hanks condemning the violence and vandalism by Gay activists though. No sir! He has no problems with them assaulting elderly women, vandalizing churches, or posting the names, addresses, and directions to the homes of people who were members of groups that supported Prop 8.