Christian News: Culture

Sean Penn won the Best Actor Oscar for his role in Milk playing the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California.  Sean Penn thanked the "Commie, Homo-Loving" Academy (twice) and told those who voted for California's gay marriage ban to "sit and reflect, and anticipate their great shame, and the shame in their grandchildren's eyes if they continue that way of support."  He also stated that he is "very proud to live in a country that is willing to elect an elegant man President," Barack Obama.

Milk traces the career of Harvey Milk, who leaves the closet and begins organizing gay purchasing power to build political alliances.  Milk runs for office with his lover acting as his campaign manager and wins, and then struggles against a conservative political opponent, including a fight over a statewide initiative to bar gays from public school jobs.

Penn has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor five times.  His award for Milk was his second.  He won the Best Actor Oscar in 2003 for his role in Clint Eastwood's Mystic River.

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