Ellen to Sarah Palin: "You're Wrong on the Federal Marriage Amendment

Talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres spoke out against Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin on her show Wednesday. Palin said last Saturday that she would support a federal constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.

"Maybe it's because I'm gay that we should all be equal, but I feel that we're all equal," DeGeneres said on her show. "I don't know what people are scared of. Maybe they think their children will be influenced. I gotta say, I was raised by two heterosexuals, I was surrounded by heterosexuals, everywhere I looked were heterosexuals, and they did not influence -- I mean I dabbled in high school, who didn't? Everyone dabbled. People are going to be who they want to be, and we have let them love who they want to love."

DeGeneres married her partner of four years, Portia de Rossi, this August in Los Angeles.

Republican presidential nominee John McCain opposes the Federal Marriage Amendment, supporting states' rights to decide whether to grant marriage rights to gay and lesbian couples.