Jeremy Irons: I'm as Anti-Gay as the Earth is Flat

[joeybee12]

Jeremy Irons says he's as anti-gay as the earth is flat.

The "Borgias" actor was widely mocked after saying in a HuffPost Live interview last week that he could foresee the legalization of same-sex marriages leading to fathers marrying sons to avoid inheritance taxes.

But now he says in a follow up letter that he "perhaps too flippantly... flew the kite of an example of the legal quagmire that might occur if same sex marriage entered the statute books." He now calls his previous argument "mischievous" but "nonetheless valid."

"I am deeply concerned that from my online discussion with the Huffington Post, it has been understood that I hold a position that is anti gay. This is as far from the truth of me as to say that I believe the earth is flat," he wrote.

http://tv.yahoo.com/news/jeremy-irons-im-anti-gay-earth-flat-194110730.html

[notadmblnd]

1. You don't have to marry your child to avoid inheritance tax

Mr. Irons apparently has never heard of a revocable trust?

[dsc]

3. in fairness he lives in the uk

does the uk have those?

[randome]

2. He looked and sounded stoned in that interview.

[Hissyspit]

4. No. It's not valid.

[cyberswede]

5. Because currently, fathers only marry daughters to avoid inheritance taxes.

[Agnosticsherbet]

6. The wealthy, it seems, have strange, strange minds.

As far as I can find, it is illegal for a father to have sex with his daughter, even if they are consenting adults, and all the sources I found say it is illegal in all states for a man to marry his daughter.I can not see gay marriage would allow fathers to marry their sons. I suspect that law would be "grandfathered" in. It would still be considered incest, a crime in all states.

Then, of course, there is the fact that most people won't pay inheritance tax, anyway, so this is only an issue for the wealthy.

Which brings me back to the notion that it seems the wealthy have strange, strange minds.

[ieoeja]

7. At least he's not fucking animals. n/t

[Agnosticsherbet]

8. What he does in the privacy of his home with his goat is his bussiness...

but he could not marry one because a goat can not sign a contract.