CLASH on air: Sunny Hostin and Whoopi Goldberg FACE OFF over Marriage, audience split in 2.
Sunny Hostin has cast a little cloud of doubt on potential marriages between religious folks and atheist partners.
Inspired by the relationship between an agnostic podcaster (Kristen Bell) and a Jewish rabbi (Adam Brody) in the new Netflix series Nobody Wants This, Hostin said from her post on The View that she doesn’t feel marriages between non-religious people and uber-practicing partners would survive without heavy conversion being involved.
“Don’t poop on this, Sunny,” cohost Sara Haines said Wednesday during the panelists’ Hot Topics conversation, anticipating that her friend would have strong feelings on the matter.
“One in two marriages end in divorce for various reasons, I’m just saying for various reasons. I know when I was looking for a potential mate, number one on the list was that I wanted to marry another Catholic. I wanted to raise my children in the faith, I wanted to have those things in common, I wanted to go to church together, I wanted to have the sacraments together,” Hostin said of finding her husband, Manny. “I did have a list of things, and I do think that those commonalities, including values and morals, but religion is a big one.”
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Sunny Hostin on ‘The View’.ABC
Reflecting back on the romantic TV series, Hostin said, “You’re talking about not only a rabbi, but someone who doesn’t believe that there is a god. I think that’s a little bit of a dealbreaker if you’re the rabbi’s mom.”
Moderator Whoopi Goldberg pushed back on Hostin’s example, telling her, “If you’re the rabbi’s mom, it doesn’t really have much to do with you,” which prompted applause from the audience.
“Those requirements of grandparents do not hold weight, it’s the requirement of the people who have the children to make those decisions with and for their children, not the grandparents,” Goldberg stressed. Later, cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin introduced the idea that the Jewish faith is open to converts, with Hostin doubling down and saying, “That’s why she’d have to convert.”
Goldberg attempted to throw the show to a commercial break, telling the audience, “If this is happening with you, you’ll figure it out, or you won’t and you’ll move on,” before Hostin looked into the camera and said, “And you’ll move on because your marriage probably won’t work.”
Haines encouraged Goldberg not to leave the audience on Hostin’s note, and the Oscar-winning star summarized her thoughts before the show cut: “Lots off people said lots of marriages wouldn’t work, and they did, and they’re still working,” she said.
Hostin has long used her religious beliefs to bolster her perspective on The View, including citing her faith as the reason for her personal anti-abortion stance, though she has repeatedly stressed since that she believes the government shouldn’t limit access to abortions for those who wish to get them.
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