Editing Michael Moore (section)

==Personal life==
Moore met Kathleen Glynn<ref name="mlive/2014/07/moore_divorce_final">{{cite news |title=Michael Moore's divorce finalized, news report says |url=https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2014/07/michael_moores_divorce_finaliz.html |access-date=July 3, 2023 |work=mlive |date=July 23, 2014 |language=en-us |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703102855/https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2014/07/michael_moores_divorce_finaliz.html |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref> at the ''[[Flint Voice]]'', and they married on October 19, 1991.<ref name="usatoday/77340806">{{cite news |title=Neighbors diss Michael Moore as messy divorce is finalized |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2014/07/23/neighbors-diss-michael-moore-as-messy-divorce-is-finalized/77340806/ |access-date=July 3, 2023 |work=USA Today |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703102855/https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2014/07/23/neighbors-diss-michael-moore-as-messy-divorce-is-finalized/77340806/ |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref> He filed for divorce on June 17, 2013.<ref>{{cite web |title=Michael Moore divorce: Flint native splits with wife of 21 years |date=July 19, 2013 |url=http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2013/07/filmmaker_michael_moore_files.html |publisher=mlive.com |access-date=July 19, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130719205253/http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2013/07/filmmaker_michael_moore_files.html |archive-date=July 19, 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> On July 22, 2014, the divorce was finalized.<ref>{{cite news |title=Filmmaker Michael Moore's divorce is finalized |url=https://apnews.com/6f17b7c15b694136b965cc062d5a14e9 |access-date=December 8, 2019 |work=[[Associated Press News]] |date=July 23, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191208040724/https://apnews.com/6f17b7c15b694136b965cc062d5a14e9 |archive-date=December 8, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Moore was raised a [[Catholic]], but has differed with some of the traditional church teaching on subjects such as abortion<ref name="Moored1">{{cite news |url=http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mikes-letter/michael-moore-to-wesley-clark-run |title=Michael Moore to Wesley Clark: Run! |last=Moore |first=Michael |work=MichaelMoore.com |date=September 12, 2003 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030928133326/http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?messageDate=2003-09-12 |archive-date=September 28, 2003 |access-date=January 14, 2019 }}</ref> and [[same-sex marriage]].<ref name="Moored2">{{cite news |title=Moore may tackle gay rights |url=http://www.canada.com/topics/entertainment/story.html?id=645ea831-d37c-41f5-ada5-301a47101e8b&k=9796 |access-date=December 7, 2019 |work=[[Postmedia News#Operations|Canada.com]] |agency=Canwest News Service |date=July 11, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110803211852/http://www.canada.com/topics/entertainment/story.html?id=645ea831-d37c-41f5-ada5-301a47101e8b&k=9796 |archive-date=August 3, 2011 }}</ref> In an interview with ''[[The A.V. Club]]'', when asked if there was a God, he stated, "Yes, there is. I don't know how you define that, but yeah."<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.avclub.com/is-there-a-god-1798208251 |title=Is There A God? |date=October 9, 2002 |last=Thompson |first=Stephen |work=The A.V. Club|access-date=April 14, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170905064025/https://www.avclub.com/is-there-a-god-1798208251 |archive-date=September 5, 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Following the [[Columbine High School massacre]], Moore acquired a lifetime membership to the [[National Rifle Association of America]] (NRA).<ref>{{cite web |author1=Michael Rose |title=Michael Moore Guns for the Real Issues in 'Bowling for Columbine' |url=https://www.documentary.org/feature/michael-moore-guns-real-issues-bowling-columbine |website=documentary.org |publisher=International Documentary Association |access-date=September 26, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200813162338/https://www.documentary.org/feature/michael-moore-guns-real-issues-bowling-columbine |archive-date=August 13, 2020 |language=en-us |date=November 3, 2002 |url-status=live}}</ref> Moore said that he initially intended to become the NRA's president to dismantle the organization, but he soon dismissed the plan as too difficult.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2002/nov/11/usforeignpolicy.guardianinterviewsatbfisouthbank |title=Guardian/NFT interview: Michael Moore |first=Andrew |last=Collins |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=November 11, 2002 |access-date=August 22, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130826180145/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2002/nov/11/usforeignpolicy.guardianinterviewsatbfisouthbank |archive-date=August 26, 2013 |quote=...I became a lifetime member after the Columbine massacre because my first thought after Columbine was to run against Charlton Heston for the presidency of the NRA. You have to be a lifetime member to be able to do that, so I had to pay $750 to join. My plan was to get 5&nbsp;m Americans to join for the lowest basic membership and vote for me so that I'd win and dismantle the organization. Unfortunately, I figured that's just too much work for me so instead I made this movie. |location=London |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eweqnTuO-z8C&pg=PT81 |page=81 |title=The World According to Michael Moore: A Portrait in His Own Words |last=Lawrence |first=Ken |publisher=Andrews McMeel Publishing |year=2004 |isbn=1-4494-1332-3}}</ref> Gun rights supporters such as [[Dave Kopel]] said there was no chance of that happening;<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kopel |first1=Dave |author-link1=Dave Kopel |title=Bowling Truths |url=https://www.nationalreview.com/2003/04/bowling-truths-dave-kopel/ |access-date=December 14, 2019 |work=[[National Review]] |date=April 4, 2003 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101010002812/http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/206461/i-bowling-i-truths/dave-kopel |archive-date=October 10, 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref> David T. Hardy and Jason Clarke wrote that Moore failed to discover that the NRA selects a president not by membership vote but by a vote of the board of directors.<ref>{{cite book |title=Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man |last1=Hardy |first1=David T. |last2=Clarke |first2=Jason |page=114 |publisher=HarperCollins |year=2005 |isbn=0-06-077960-8}}</ref>

In 2005, ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' named Moore one of [[Time 100|the world's 100 most influential people]].<ref name="Joel Stein" /> Later in 2005, Moore founded the [[Traverse City Film Festival]] held annually in [[Traverse City, Michigan]]. In 2009, he co-founded the Traverse City Comedy Festival, also held annually in Traverse City, where Moore helped to spearhead the renovation of the historic downtown State Theater.<ref>{{cite news |title=Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore's conservative neighbors gawk, revel in his messy divorce |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/07/22/liberal-filmmaker-michael-moores-conservative-neighbors-gawk-revel-in-his-messy-divorce/ |first1=Abby |last1=Phillip |date=July 22, 2014 |access-date=June 30, 2015 |archive-date=July 24, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140724125809/http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/07/22/liberal-filmmaker-michael-moores-conservative-neighbors-gawk-revel-in-his-messy-divorce/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-moore/traverse-city-movie-theater_b_1674126.html |author=Michael Moore |title=Emmy-winning Director: I Built a Movie Theater – and a Film Festival – and I'd Like You to Come to It |date=July 15, 2012 |newspaper=[[HuffPost]] |access-date=June 30, 2015 |archive-date=September 25, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925001346/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-moore/traverse-city-movie-theater_b_1674126.html |url-status=live }}</ref>