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(KSL News) Actor Tom Hanks has offered an apology for comments he made last week about members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Last Friday, Hanks said Latter-day Saints who supported California's Proposition 8 ban on gay marriage were "un-American."
Hanks says he believes Prop. 8 is against everything the Constitution stands for.
Today, he said, "But everyone has a right to vote their conscience; nothing could be more American. To say members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who contributed to Proposition 8 are 'un-American' creates more division when the time calls for respectful disagreement. No one should use 'un-American' lightly or in haste. I did. I should not have."
Hanks made the "un-American" charge last week in Los Angeles.
E-mail: mgiauque@ksl.com
