Brad Pitt’s mom Jane Pitt has faced a barrage of death threats and other slurs after writing to her local paper bashing President Obama and his positions on gay marriage and abortion.
“Brad Pitt’s mom, die,” said one Twitter post, according to Web site Twitchy, while another tweet read, “[bleep] you, brad pitt’s mom. the gay community made your kid a star, you whacko” and another says, “Brad Pitt’s mom wrote an anti-gay pro-Romney editorial. Kill the Bitch.”
The venomous tweets erupted after the “Moneyball” star’s mother wrote a letter to her local Missouri paper, the Springfield News-Leader, saying of the upcoming election, “Any Christian who does not vote or writes in a name is casting a vote for [Mitt] Romney’s opponent, Barack Hussein Obama — a man who sat in Jeremiah Wright’s church for years, did not hold a public ceremony to mark the National Day of Prayer, and is a liberal who supports the killing of unborn babies and same-sex marriage.”
In the letter, Jane Pitt called Romney, “a family man with high morals, business experience, who is against abortion and shares Christian conviction concerning homosexuality.”
Web site WND says it reached out to Jane Pitt about the vicious tweets, and that her voice conveyed “fear and despair.”
“WND spoke briefly with [her] and asked about the media assault against her for her comments as a private citizen supporting Romney. With inflections in her voice that conveyed fear and despair, she quietly and politely said she was not interested in talking to anyone in the media about the incident,” the site says.
Brad Pitt’s brother Doug went on “Today,” meanwhile, to defend his mom, saying, “You know, I think moms and dads and kids agree to disagree all over the world. So why would our family be any different? There can be healthy discussion when people disagree with you. The bad thing is when it turns to venom and negativity, and we don’t have that in our family. It’s open discussion. We can learn from each other and, if anything, it solidifies your point. Or maybe you learn something.”
Brad Pitt has been openly supportive of Obama, as well as same sex marriage. He told talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, about his relationship with fiancée Angelina Jolie, “I’ve said that we would not be getting married until everyone in this country had the right to get married.”