Reason number 617 why we love Brad Pitt. Same-sex marriage has just been legalized in New York state but the actor, 47, who has six children with partner Angelina Jolie said that the rules should be the same across the whole of the country.

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The actor released the following statement to People:

“It is encouraging that New York has joined the movement to grant equal marriage rights to its citizens. But it is each American’s Constitutional right to marry the person they love, no matter what state they inhabit. No state should decide who can marry and who cannot. Thanks to the tireless work of so many, someday soon this discrimination will end and every American will be able to enjoy their equal right to marriage.”

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In 2006, Pitt said he and Angelina Jolie would get hitched as soon as gay marriage was legal across the nation.