Is Sean Penn too vocal? And isn’t Obama against gay marriage?

When Sean Penn won a Best Actor Oscar for his role in "Milk," he started his acceptance speech with "You commie, homo-loving sons-a-guns…"

Sean Penn is no stranger to voicing his opinion, but is a movie awards show the place to do it? I guess if an actor is really opinionated, he or she will use that moment in front of millions to try and sway the world towards their way of thinking. Watch Penn’s acceptance speech here.

Penn’s speech also brought attention to a new Web site targeting left-wing bias in Hollywood, launched by Washington Times columnist Andrew Breitbart. He live-blogged the Oscars on Sunday, and much of the reader vitriol was directed at Penn – things like "Sean Penn makes me puke in my mouth. … The Academy punished Mickey [Rourke] for his gratitude towards President Bush for keeping our country safe from Islamo-facist terrorism. Instead, it chose to award its biggest donkey, Sean Penn."

I appreciate Penn’s stance on gay marriage, tolerance and acceptance, but sometimes I think movie stars go a little too far when they get in front of a microphone. Plus, he mentioned how great it was that the country elected such an "elegant" president, but isn’t President Obama against gay marriage?

What do you think? Should we care what the stars think? Are you ok with them voicing their opinions on issues and politics?

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