NEW YORK - Brad Pitt, ever the social activist, says he won't be marrying Angelina Jolie until the restrictions on who can marry whom are dropped.

"Angie and I will consider tying the knot when everyone else in the country who wants to be married is legally able," the 42-year-old actor reveals in Esquire magazine's October issue, on newsstands Sept. 19.

In the article he reflects on "fifteen things I think everyone should know."

Though Shiloh, the world-famous daughter of Pitt and girlfriend/earth mother Angelina Jolie, hogged much attention upon her birth in May, Pitt says he "cannot imagine life" without adopted children, Maddox, 5, and Zahara, 1.

"They're as much of my blood as any natural born, and I'm theirs," says Pitt. "That's all I can say about it. I can't live without them. So: Anyone considering (adoption), that's my vote."

Pitt, who plays a world traveler in the upcoming drama "Babel," subscribes to a laid-back parenting style.

"I try not to stifle them in any way," he says. "If it's not hurting anyone, I want them to be able to explore. Sometimes that means they're quite rambunctious."

Lucky kids.

"I feel it's really important to have that time to sit and talk to them," he continues. "I really like that last minute before they fade off. And always give them a heads-up before you jerk them out of something. You need to tell them, like, `You have three more minutes.'"

Not to completely change the subject, but I've been wanting to read The Da Vinci Code, if only to see what it is about and what makes it so controversial. But I've heard Dan Brown's prose style sucks...hmm.

It's not the worst prose I've read, but don't mistake for anything more than entertainment or basically an extended mystery novel with lots of details. Read the book instead of seeing the film if you are a "reader". The only thing I liked about the film was Jean Reno.

From QSteph:

Another thing, I believe in God and in his absolute will, but I don't trust man. Man wrote the Bible and the verse has been changed so much over the years. I'm not insinuating that the doctrine is false, but i do believe some text may have been manipulated to suit certain groups. I'm probably going to hell because I refuse to "know my role".

You are so cool! I think you'd make a great theologian. God, whoever he/she is would be proud of someone like you for using he brain he/she gave you.

I'm so sick of all Christians, all religious people, getting a bum rap merely because the loudest voices seem so judgmental, ignorant, and hateful. It's great to encounter people like you DAN and you QSTEPH; people who strive to understand Christ's philosophy of love and inclusion.

My partner and I have decided to get married, now that we can here (Canada) but we have yet to set a date. At first we were just going to get a civil ceremony but while neither of us is particularly religious, both of us have a sense of spirituality and of a power greater than ourselves. I was born Catholic with a little Jewish mixed in, and he is reform Jewish. While I agree with a previous poster who thought marriage is more of a legal arrangement and that no religious sect should be forced to perform marriages it is against, my partner and I are happily bowled over by our non-secular choices for a marriage ceremony. The most interesting is an Anglican-reform Jewish combo.

Toadstool, COMPLETELY off-topic but, what's with the lures? I clicked the link and um, I don't get it.

Don't remember. I think my tongue got caught in my cheek and it was affecting my thought processes. You must admit. Some of them were kinda pretty in a right wing kind of way.

Congrats on your wedding Toad.

I like Canada's governemental system. There is also free health care coverage for all which should be a far greater issue than gay marriage here in the U.S.