'30 Rock's' Alec Baldwin Won't Be Told He Can't Marry Jesse Tyler Ferguson

PUBLISHED: OCTOBER 20, 2010

Alec Baldwin is livid that the state of New York won't allow him 

to marry Jesse Tyler Ferguson, never mind, Baldwin says, that 

he's straight.

The 52-year-old star of NBC's comedy hit 30 Rock wants New Yorkers to oust the senators who voted against legalizing gay marriage last year because Ferguson, star of the ABC comedy

 hit Modern Family, has a crush on him.

Baldwin is responding to a video Ferguson recorded for Fight 

Back NY. In the video, Ferguson says, “I have a crush on 

someone.” That someone is Baldwin. “He doesn't know it yet, 

but we are going to get married.” An off-camera voice,

 however, breaks the news to Ferguson that Baldwin is straight. “Why would you spring this on me here?” a brokenhearted

 Ferguson rhetorically asks.

But Baldwin, straight as he may be, is prepared to walk down 

the aisle with Ferguson.

“As a result of this video, a vast and malicious whisper

 campaign has emerged alleging that I can't marry Jesse

 because I'm not gay,” Baldwin replies in a new video posted Wednesday.

Baldwin says the only reason he can't marry Ferguson is 

because gay marriage is illegal in New York.

“Help Fight Back New York remove from office those senators

 who stand in the way of equality,” he says.

“Because no one tells a New Yorker that they can't marry

 Jesse Tyler Ferguson,” he adds. (The video is embedded in 

the right panel of this page.)

Sex in the City 2 star Cynthia Nixon, who campaigned heavily

 for passage of the law last year and is openly lesbian, 

was featured in a video for the group in March.

BY ON TOP MAGAZINE STAFF