WASHINGTON — What a meathead!
Hollywood director and “All in the Family” liberal Rob Reiner was first in the line yesterday to hear the Supreme Court’s oral arguments over California’s Proposition 8 ban on gay marriage, but not because he waited it out in the cold like a dedicated do-gooder.
The American Foundation for Equal Rights board member paid some stooge to stand in line for him, then had the nerve to gloat when the doors opened.
Such “tickets” were commanding up to $6,000, according to several reports.
“We’re number one! We’re number one!” joked Reiner, as if he had just won the Super Bowl.
Reiner, a same-sex-marriage supporter who played Archie Bunker’s “meathead” son-in-law on TV, said he was looking forward to the arguments from plaintiff’s lawyer Ted Olson, seeking to overturn Prop 8.
Other celebs weighed in.
Dustin Lance Black, who won the Academy Award for his screenplay “Milk,” said he wanted the Supreme Court “to fulfill that promise of federal equality . . . Our time is truly now.”
Passion was strong outside the court.
“I’m down here to show support for my mom,” said Jeremiah Desousa, 30, of Brooklyn, whose lesbian mother was married last year in Connecticut.
But Su Ge, 37, a member of a Chinese Christian group from Chicago, disagreed. “We support traditional marriage,” she said. “We are created by God. It is God’s design: one man and one woman.”