{"id":2381,"date":"2008-11-10T10:34:25","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T10:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2008\/11\/celebs-speak-out-against-prop.html"},"modified":"2008-11-10T10:34:25","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T10:34:25","slug":"celebs-speak-out-against-prop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2008\/11\/celebs-speak-out-against-prop.html","title":{"rendered":"Celebs Speak Out Against Prop 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"melissaetheridge.jpg\"<\/span>Last week’s election was historic in a major way–with the election of Barack Obama, a Democrat and a liberal supported by many Hollywood folks, it looked like racism had been retired in favor of change and that a more conservative viewpoint had at last been trampled by a promise of liberal change. But in California, while last Election Day was a strike against racism as a campaign issue, it wasn’t a total win for liberals. Witness the “Prop 8” situation.
\nWhile most of the people I’ve encountered in LA voted no on 8–which meant a vote in favor of equal rights for all marriages, even between spouses of the same sex — the proposition passed by a narrow margin, causing an uproar from equal rights supporters, celebs and civilians alike, and spawning public rallies against what is being called the “gay marriage ban.”<\/p>\n


\nMany celebs have been vocal <\/a> about the outcome. Wanda Sykes, Lance Bass and Rose McGowan attended a protest on Wednesday; Sean Penn called the decision “shameful,” and Christina Aguilera and Madonna both expressed their disappointment with the outcome.
\nAnd then there’s Oscar and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge, who surmises that if she doesn’t have the right to marry, that renders her “not a full citizen”– and as such, perhaps she doesn’t have to pay taxes:<\/p>\n

“I don’t mean to get too personal here,” Etheridge wrote. “But there is a lot I can do with the extra half a million dollars that I will be keeping instead of handing it over to the state of California. Oh, and I am sure Ellen will be a little excited to keep her bazillion bucks that she pays in taxes, too.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Celebrity DJ Samantha Ronson also had something to say about the fact that a proposition dedicated to humane treatment of animals passed, while human marriage rights are not equal in California:<\/p>\n

“I guess people care more about farm animals than they do their fellow man, that’s really sad to me,” Ronson wrote on her MySpace blog<\/a>. “Yes, I am glad that the chickens will have more room and better conditions as they wait to die, but I just think it’s frightening that people show more compassion for tomorrow’s dinner than for the chef.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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