Rosie and Kelli already have married once when San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom allowed same-sex marriages four years ago but the California Supreme Court later declared such marriages invalid.

O'Donnell told AP Radio that she and Carpenter are "going to wait until it's legal everywhere, because otherwise, I said to Kelli, we'll be going around touring the country on the marriage tour every state by state."

"Once it gets to be at the federal level, once every state recognizes the marriages of every other state, I think that'll be the time we would do it," the 46-year-old comedian said.

Asked if she thought that time was near, O'Donnell replied, "Yes."

"The same way it was illegal for black and white people to marry at one point and people couldn't conceive of that ever being different, I do think that two consenting, law-abiding adults who want to share their life together should be allowed to do that," she said.

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