Dec 08, 2006  |  By: BRIAN MOYLAN  | COMMENTS     

took advantage of their marriage laws to wed his husband).

“I learned more about gay marriage and the rights and what comes with it and the more technical stuff, which is what I wanted to learn,” he says, joking that his first time playing gay was as Uncle Jesse on the sitcom “Full House.”

“I like his conviction and that he stood up for what he believed in. I’m not political, but I’m growing older and I do feel like I have something to say. I’m getting to an age where I want to have some responsibility, and I felt that doing this movie would show how I feel about this issue,” he says.

And if his presence in the movie doesn’t give it away, Stamos supports same-sex marriage.

“Everyone should have the same thing and people shouldn’t be denied these rights because of who they love,” Stamos told the Blade. “That’s what this movie is about in the simplest terms. I have lots of friends in long-term relationships who don’t get to have the same things as my straight friends. And that’s not right.”

Though “Wedding Wars” may be a movie that is meant to entertain a mainstream audience and convince them to support gay rights, it still has the gay viewer in mind. There are “Brokeback Mountain” and Dykes on Bikes references that only those familiar with gay culture will fully appreciate. Stamos and Dane do get a chance to wrestle, but to many a gay man’s chagrin, all their clothing stays on.

It’s an oversight that would almost cause gay men to protest, but with a movie this whimsical and entertaining, they certainly won’t be changing the channel just yet.