Ellen DeGeneres Defends <br />Hanging out With George W. Bush<br />.<br />DeGeneres and her wife, <br />Portia de Rossi, were seen with former <br />President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, <br />at a Dallas Cowboys game on Sunday.<br />Their apparent friendship sparked <br />backlash on social media since George W. <br />has held an anti-LGBTQ stance in the past.<br />The union of a man and a woman is the most enduring human institution, honored and encouraged in all cultures and by every religious faith, George W. Bush, via 2004 statement.<br />DeGeneres posted a video to <br />Twitter explaining her friendship <br />with the former president.<br />People were upset, they thought why is a gay Hollywood liberal sitting next to a conservative Republican president. Here's the thing, I'm friends with George Bush, in fact I'm friends with a lot of people who don't share the same beliefs that I have, Ellen DeGeneres, via 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show'.<br />Just because I don't agree with someone on everything doesn't mean that I'm not going to be friends with them. , Ellen DeGeneres, via 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show'.<br />When I say be kind to one another I don't mean only the people that think the same way that you do, I mean be kind to everyone. <br />Doesn't matter, Ellen DeGeneres, via 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show'.<br />While some people applauded her <br />ability to befriend someone with such <br />opposite views, others condemned her.<br />No, Ellen. So many LGBT people will continue to suffer bc of what this man did. Being nice to him is letting him off the hook, Twitter user
