“I Think the ‘Will & Grace’ Thing and the Gay Thing Are Going to Work Out Great”
Megyn Kelly launched her new show, “Megyn Kelly TODAY,” on NBC Monday morning, and asked an audience member if he became gay and a lawyer because of “Will & Grace.”
“Is it true that you became a lawyer and you became gay because of Will?†Kelly asked Russell Turner.
She was probably kidding, but she did say, “I don’t know about the lawyer thing, but I think the ‘Will & Grace’ thing and the gay thing are going to work out great.â€
As Raw Story notes, it was “awkward.”
After all, Megyn Kelly does not have a great record on LGBT civil rights.Â
HuffPost noted in 2014 that on Fox News, Kelly gave people like Family Research Council president Tony Perkins a frequent platform. Also, the anti-gay Christian legal firm Alliance Defending Freedom, and the Benham Brothers.
“What makes Kelly arguably the best friend an anti-gay extremist could have on Fox isn’t that she agrees with people like Perkins on every issue,” HuffPost’s report by Equality Matters reads. “In fact, it’s just the opposite. It’s precisely because Kelly isn’t seen as an anti-LGBT hack that her willingness to elevate groups like the FRC and ADF to positions of respectability makes her so dangerous.”
Meanwhile, UpRoxx today noted that Turner, the “Will & Grace” superfan, took Kelly’s comments “in stride,” and that Kelly once compared gay rights to “Christian rights.”
“One could argue that Kelly’s remarks were intended as tongue-in-cheek, however given her history with Fox News they come off as especially tone deaf.”
How will Kelly be on LGBT civil rights? Time will tell.
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