Melissa Etheridge Plans on Fighting California Marriage Ban
Melissa Etheridge has pledged to fight the re-installed ban on same sex marriages in California, even though she and partner Tammy Lynn Michaels could legally wed elsewhere.
Etheridge was stunned by the news that Proposition 8 passed in California overnight on Tuesday banning gay marriage – but she isn’t planning on leaving the state.
Speaking exclusively to website Momlogic.com, the lesbian rock star says, “The gay citizenry of this state will pick themselves up and dust themselves off and do what we have been doing for years. We will get back into it.
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Public date: November 7th, 2008Categories: Celebrity
Tags: Celebrity Gossip, Melissa Etheridge Gossip
November 14, 2008
More and more of us are WAKING UP, America. No taxation without equality; simple math.
Now the feds will need to repeal DOMA and DADT, grant us FULL equal rights (including marriage), and begin to start
viewing our families – OUR FAMILIES – as the tax-paying contributing members of society we are…..well…..we USED to
be!
Because if our HOMES, our FAMILIES, our very BELOVED are not acknowledged and valued as other families are legally,
whatever we do outside of that home will never be acknowledged and valued legally, such as adopting children,
working without discrimination, or serving openly in the military.
FAMILY FIRST. What is more important than FAMILY?
We owe the IRS absolutely NOTHING until equal. NOTHING. Get it?
This is NOT a test.
This is NOT a debate.
This is NOT a vote.
This is definitely NOT a popularity contest.
This IS justice – GAY TAX PROTEST.