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Homosexual ‘marriage’ could lead to father-son unions to avoid estate taxes

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LONDON, U.K. , April 10, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews ) – Academy Award-winning actor Jeremy Irons told HuffPost Live  last week that he worries a redefinition of marriage to include same-sex couples could lead to abuses of the institution, including marriages between fathers and their sons. “It seems to me that now [gay activsts are] fighting for the name,” Irons told HuffPo Live host Josh Zepps . “I worry that it means somehow we debase, or we change, what marriage is. I just worry about that.” Jeremy Irons Zepps asked Irons about his views on gay ‘marriage’ during an interview about the Showtime series “The Borgias,” in which Irons plays the role of a pope.  While Irons said he had no strong feelings either way on the issue, he did worry that unscrupulous people could use a redefinition of marriage to their advantage at society’s expense.  “Tax wise, it’s an interesting one, because, you see, could a father not marry his son?” Irons asked Zepps. When Zepps countered that l

Glenn Close: people who value gender differences will have to ‘die off’

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Image via Wikipedia Discussing her gender-bending role in the new movie  Albert Nobbs , American actress Glenn Close has said that gender “doesn’t matter” and all those too outdated to reject natural gender and gender roles will just have to “die off.” Albert Nobbs, screened at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival , features Close as a cross-dressing woman working as a butler in 19th-century Ireland . The idea behind the film, a pet project of Close’s for fifteen years, is to help scuttle conventional ideas of gender - or any idea of gender. “Gender is irrelevant. It basically should be irrelevant,” Close told the National Post . The actress says she hopes her performance as a woman passing as a convincing-looking man “engenders a lot of conversation, because I believe there are a lot of people who put on faces.” “I am not gay … but I feel very comfortable in the company of everybody, not just gay people. But I honestly believe that gay rights of [sic] the rights of peop