Melissa Etheridge is vowing to stop paying her taxes now that California citizens have voted to bar gay couples from marrying."I am taking that to mean I do not have to pay my state taxes because I am not a full citizen," wrote the 44-year-old lesbian singer-songwriter. "I mean that would just be wrong, to make someone pay taxes and not give them the same rights, sounds sort of like that taxation without representation thing from the history books."
Etheridge goes on to say that she's excited about the enormous savings not paying taxes will bring her: "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."
"When did it become okay to legislate morality? I try to envision someone reading that legislation "eliminates the right" and then clicking yes. What goes through their mind? Was it the frightening commercial where the little girl comes home and says, "Hi mom, we learned about gays in class today" and then the mother gets that awful worried look and the scary music plays? Do they not know anyone who is gay? If they do, can they look them in the face and say "I believe you do not deserve the same rights as me"? Do they think that their children will never encounter a gay person? Do they think they will never have to explain the 20% of us who are gay and living and working side by side with all the citizens of California? I got news for them, someday your child is going to come home and ask you what a gay person is. Gay people are born everyday. You will never legislate that away."
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This blog is so great! You are now in my bookmarks. Thanks for speaking out. November's results on all of these propositions against gays has lit such a fire under my ass I can't even sit down any more. So anyway, thanks again and we WILL change this bigotry to inclusion soon enough.
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