Brad Pitt and his fiancé, Angelina Jolie, are two of Hollywood’s most staunch social activists. She’s a U.N. Ambassador who’s constantly jetting off to some war-torn country to shed light on the terrible conditions. He’s an architecture aficionado, who helped ensure that green housing was built in New Orleans to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina. And up until recently when they gave into their brood of kids who allegedly begged them to tie the knot, they had vowed not to marry until everyone could, including gay couples.

But, apparently, the Pitt apple has fallen quite far from the family tree. One can only imagine his embarrassment when news broke that his mom had written a letter to the editor at the Springfield News-Leader in Missouri. It seems that Brad Pitt's mom, Jane Pitt, has very different views on gender equality than her liberal son. Here’s what she had to say, “Any Christian who does not vote or writes in a name is casting a vote for 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."
This might make for awkward holiday dinner conversation and probably left Brad Pitt a little red in the face. But it might not be the most humiliating thing a celebrity’s parent has ever done. Michael Lohan’s been in and out of more scrapes than even his notoriously troubled daughter Lindsay Lohan. Plus, he’s old enough to know better. Rihanna’s mom, Monica Braithwaite, embarrassed her by joking about the pop star’s rumored fling with Ashton Kutcher. And in her tell-all memoir, Kris Jenner aired her dirty laundry about the affair she had that ended her marriage with Robert Kardashian. Not only were her reality star kids left blushing over the details, but Khloe became the target of tabloid speculation that O.J.’s lawyer wasn’t really her birth father.
So Brad and his mom might stand on different sides of the issue. And he’ll probably have a lot of explaining to do to some of his high-profile gay and lesbian friends. But lots of families have conflicts over sensitive topics and manage to work through it privately. What do you think: Which celebrity has the most embarrassing parent?
No, I'm not a liberal, far from it.