Actress Cynthia Nixon Criticized By Pastor At Breast Cancer Summit
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- There was a testy exchange between actress Cynthia Nixon and an audience member at a breast cancer summit on Long Island.
The "Sex And The City" star is a breast cancer survivor and was the keynote speaker at the third annual Breast Cancer summit in Baldwin Monday.
During her speech, Nixon, who is married to a woman, talked about cancer and also her wife.
Pastor Lisa Calabrese of the Regeneration Church in Bethpage, got up to chastise the actress for mentioning her wife during the speech.
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"Is your personal stance regarding sharing your personal -- and about who you are and your wife -- there are some people who may not say that," Calabrese said to Nixon. "So that's part of, could be a part of something that needs to be kept as just talking about breast cancer."
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"I, you know, I take your first point. Your second point I completely reject," Nixon shot back.
"OK that's fine," Calabrese replied.
Calabrese told 1010 WINS reporter Mona Rivera she too is a breast cancer survivor and felt that Nixon was promoting same-sex marriage during the speech.
"I felt she had an agenda," Calabrese told Rivera.
Nixon told Rivera that she had never been criticized like that during a breast cancer speech.
"What did I do?," the actress asked. "I mentioned that I have a wife."
Nixon said that while she struggles with breast cancer, mentioning her wife is not promoting same-sex marriage, but rather "that's a part of the story,"Rivera reported.
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