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"Don&amp;apos;t mess with Ellen DeGeneres! Rather than running from negative bigotry, the TV personality, 56, faced one of her critics head-on on Wednesday, Jan. 14.&amp;#xA0;\r\nDeGeneres was the subject of a Christian Post column &amp;quot;Are You Aware of the Avalanche of Gay Programming Assaulting Your Home?&amp;quot; that was published by conservative pastor and author Larry Tomczak on Thursday, Jan. 8. The op-ed alleges that the out-and-proud star has been pushing an &amp;quot;immoral,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;indecent,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;shameful,&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;unnatural&amp;quot; lifestyle with her show.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;I don&amp;#x2019;t usually read anything about myself,&amp;quot; DeGeneres began in her monologue on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. &amp;quot;But I heard there was an article written about me and I would like to address it right now. It&amp;#x2019;s a pastor who wrote an article for the Christian Post where he accuses Hollywood of having a gay agenda and said that &amp;apos;Ellen DeGeneres celebrates her lesbianism and &amp;apos;marriage&amp;apos; in between appearances of guests like Taylor Swift to attract young girls.&amp;apos;&amp;quot;&amp;#xA0;\r\n&amp;quot;First of all, I&amp;#x2019;m not &amp;apos;married,&amp;apos;&amp;quot; she continued. &amp;quot;I&amp;apos;m married. That&amp;apos;s all, that&amp;apos;s all, I&amp;apos;m just married.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\n\r\nAfter coming out on the cover of Time magazine in 1997 with a cover line reading &amp;quot;Yep, I&amp;apos;m Gay,&amp;quot; DeGeneres publicly dated women including Anne Heche and Alexandra Hedison. She began her relationship with Portia de Rossi in 2004, and married the stunning Arrested Development actress in 2008.&amp;#xA0;\r\n&amp;quot;Larry, I don&amp;#x2019;t even know what it means to celebrate my lesbianism. I mean. Well, I guess I do, it&amp;apos;s like that!&amp;quot; DeGeneres added, pulling a party popper out of her pocket and popping it. &amp;quot;I&amp;apos;m gay!&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nLong an outspoken leader in the conservative community, Tomczak encouraged parents to fight the &amp;quot;indoctrination and propaganda coming from those advocating a gay lifestyle,&amp;quot; offering tips for keeping children out of the influence of stars like DeGeneres, Jillian Michaels, Anderson Cooper, and Michael Sam.\r\n&amp;quot;Larry, the only way I&amp;#x2019;m trying to influence people is to be more kind and compassionate with one another,&amp;quot; DeGeneres said. &amp;quot;That is the message that I&amp;#x2019;m sending out. I don&amp;apos;t have an agenda. I&amp;apos;m not here to brainwash anyone.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nGrabbing a spinning vortex and holding it up to the camera, the funnywoman added, &amp;quot;But listen to the sound of my voice. Attention youth of the world: I want you to live your lives being exactly who you are. Be true to yourself. The most important thing is to be true to yourself.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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