(CNSNews.com) - Hollywood actor and political activist Danny Glover, in an exclusive interview with CNSNews.com, said enacting the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) and legalizing homosexual marriage are both steps in the right direction, and each consistent with the sense of "justice" the civil rights movement has fostered in America.
 
The Freedom of Choice Act, which would allow unrestricted abortion-on-demand nationwide and which President-elect Obama has said he would sign into law, is “absolutely” consistent with civil rights, Glover told CNSNews.com.
 
“Absolutely, there should be no limitations on a woman’s right to choose whether she wants to abort that child or whether she wants to have that child,” said Glover. “There should absolutely – I think around most of the places in the world there is a freedom of choice act. We don’t even talk about it around other places in the world – in the modern world, in the Western world. Certainly – but absolutely I support that Act and a women’s right to choose.”



 
Glover was in Washington, D.C., to present the Olender Foundation’s Advocate for Justice award to House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.), who is a sponsor of the Freedom of Choice Act.

Glover’s political activism dates back to 1968, when he was a student at San Francisco State University. There, he agitated, along with other students and some faculty, for the creation of a school of ethnic studies and an expanded Black Studies department.  
 
Glover told CNSNews.com that he does not know the specific language of the FOCA but he fully supports the “basis” of the bill.

“Because of my lack of familiarity with the bill itself and the detail of the bill, I can only comment on the basis of the bill,” he said. “I’m not a lawmaker or an expert, but I certainly – on the basis of the bill, however it’s framed, in some sense, however it is, it should not restrict a women’s right to choose.”

As “Proposition 8” protests continue in California, many activists have compared the gay rights movement to the civil rights movement in the media. Glover, who is in “full support” of homosexual marriage, said the civil rights movement set a foundation for the gay rights movement.

“The presence of justice as King once said, that ‘peace is not simply the absence of violence or hostility but the presence of justice.’ So, the civil rights movement gave a platform in which we can talk about the presence of justice,” said Glover.

Glover said he will not “make a judgment” on whether it’s right for homosexual activists to compare their movement to the civil rights movement.

“I’m not going to make a judgment on that,” he said. “I think that men and women have the right to decide who their partners are going to be. Men and women have the right to decide how they define their own happiness, and I am in full support of that. Whether they find that in marriage, I am in full support of that. Whether they find that in companionship, I am in full support of that. I think it’s only just.”

The Olender Foundation, the organization that honored Rep. Conyers on Dec. 9, is headed by malpractice attorney Jack Olender and his wife, Lovell. According to their Web site, the foundation “aims to counter poverty and violence to promote opportunity and equal justice.”