Editing Wil Wheaton (section)

===Politics===

Wheaton campaigned for [[Hillary Clinton]] in the [[2016 United States presidential election|2016 general election]].<ref>{{Citation |title=Star Trek Actor Wil Wheaton to Campaign for Hillary Clinton in Michigan |url=http://wchbnewsdetroit.newsone.com/3194580/star-trek-actor-wil-wheaton-to-campaign-for-hillary-clinton-in-michigan/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161027060612/http://wchbnewsdetroit.newsone.com/3194580/star-trek-actor-wil-wheaton-to-campaign-for-hillary-clinton-in-michigan/ |archive-date=October 27, 2016}}</ref>

Immediately following the [[Sutherland Springs church shooting]] on November 5, 2017, Wheaton on Twitter stated in response to Congressman [[Paul Ryan]]'s call for [[thoughts and prayers|prayers for the victims]] that, "The murdered victims were in a church. If prayers did anything, they'd still be alive, you worthless sack of shit."<ref>{{cite tweet |number=927284357609353218 |user=wilw |title=The murdered victims were in a church. If prayers did anything, they'd still be alive, you worthless sack of shit. |author=Wil 'stop enabling the Nazis' Wheaton |date=November 5, 2017}}</ref> Wheaton subsequently clarified his opinion after receiving criticism, writing, "I apologize to those of you who are sincere people of Faith, who felt attacked by me," but accused "the right wing noise machine" of using his comments "to deflect attention and anger away from the role that unfettered access to weapons of mass murder played in the latest incidence of mass murder in America."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wheaton |first1=Wil |date=November 6, 2017 |title=point of clarification |url=http://wilwheaton.net/2017/11/point-of-clarification/ |access-date=November 6, 2017 |website=Wil Wheaton dot Net}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Borchers |first1=Callum |date=November 6, 2017 |title=What prayer shamers get wrong (and right) about Christianity |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/11/06/what-prayer-shamers-misunderstand-about-christianity-and-what-they-get-right/ |access-date=November 6, 2017 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=November 5, 2017 |title=Wil Wheaton angers people of faith with furious tweet at Paul Ryan |url=https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/wil-wheaton-angers-people-of-faith-with-furious-tweet-at-paul-ryan |access-date=November 6, 2017 |website=Fox News}}</ref>

In September 2024, Wheaton joined other actors from the [[Star Trek]] franchise on a livestream to support the campaign of Vice President [[Kamala Harris]] in the [[2024 United States presidential election]].<ref>{{cite news |date=September 24, 2024 |title=Wonder Woman brings us Geeks for Harris tonight |url=https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/9/24/2272630/-Wonder-Woman-brings-us-Geeks-for-Harris-tonight |access-date=September 25, 2024 |publisher=Daily KOs}}</ref>