Ben Affleck stopped by the Good Morning America studios on Monday to promote his upcoming spy thriller Argo, but before the segment wrapped, he made sure to congratulate the program’s newly engaged weather anchor, Sam Champion.
“Oh, I want to congratulate Sam on his upcoming nuptials,” Affleck said as Champion nodded graciously at him from offstage. “It’s to our shame that you can’t get married in every state in the union, but one day I hope you will be able to. It’s very exciting, though. I was very inspired. Moving love story,” the father of three continued.
Affleck has actively supported gay marriage since 2004 through Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gay, and having been quoted as saying, “I don’t think the government should be involved in any way in people’s bedrooms or lives. With so much hatred and unpleasantness in the world, why would you want to get in the way of people who love each other marrying each other? Anybody who wants to be able to get married to anybody else should be able to. It’s not my business.”
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