You know, I've been saying for years that musicals are the best way to get any point across about your pet cause. But what, only Jonathan Larson took me up on that? Whatever.
In 2006, Brad Pitt told Esquire that "Angie and I will consider tying the knot when everyone else in the country who wants to be married is legally able," but according to this puff piece interview, the couple will now get married when their kids ask them to.
A few caveats here:
Crack open a cold can of awesome and get a load of the Mission Gathering Church's billboard in San Diego, which reads:
Mission Gathering Christian Church is sorry for the narrow-minded, judgmental, deceptive, manipulative actions of those who took away the rights and equality of so many in the name of God.
Worried about overeating this Thanksgiving? Us Weekly has you covered — the magazine just scored an EXCLUSIVE!!! cover story on Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt's surprise nuptials, set to hit stands later this week. Yeah, you read that right. Speidi finally got married, putting an end to their months-long fake engagement. Heidi says she "couldn't stop crying" the minute they said their vows in a secret ceremony in Mexico. There were reportedly no guests in attendance, because the couple makes everyone — even family members — ill with just one publicity-inspired kiss.
And, in case you were wondering, the gays still can't tie the knot because it will ruin the sanctity of marriage.
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It's on. The California Supreme Court ruled that it will hear lawsuits filed by marriage equality advocates to overturn Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in the state, though the court has refused to prevent the ban from going into effect.
The high court's decision paves the way for what is certain to be one of the largest and most closely-watched civil rights cases in U.S. history.
The court has decided to handle all aspects of the Prop. 8 controversy in one case and when it convenes next year, it will answer the following questions:
Oh that liberal elite media and its terrible sense of humor! Everyone needs to get their heads checked, because Stephen Baldwin was simply making a hilarious joke when he said he would leave the country if Barack Obama became president. According to our least favorite Baldwin brother, "The liberal Democrats who didn't get that I was joking need to lighten up." Here's a thought, Steve-O: Perhaps everyone knew you were joking but, deep down, secretly hoped that you were serious and would pack your bags after Nov. 4.
The Jesus Freak (minus the Jesus) also takes issue with — surprise! — gay marriage: "If they legalize gay marriage in all 50 states in my lifetime, I'll get a Billy Ray Cyrus tattoo on my butt to go with the Hannah Montana one." Even more of a reason to help out the gays.
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Fresh off his role as the punchline to Gov. Mike Huckabee's presidential bid, Chuck Norris is taking a fresh stab at politics by weighing in on Proposition 8 protests. In an op-ed called "If Democracy Doesn't Work, Try Anarchy," he cries, "Where are the hate-crime cops when religious conservatives need them?"
The whole piece is a gobbledygook of half truths, race-baiting and feigned outrage that form a sort of Greatest Hits list of Yes On 8 talking points over the last week. Even though we've disproved these things half a dozen times already, we'll break it down again, because if there's one thing public education has proven it's that endless repetition can reach even the dimmest of minds.
And she didn't even need the cover of People to do it.
Having never (so?) publicly discussed her sexual orientation — but having made light of it on stage and on The New Adventures of Old Christine, where her character remains married to Julia Louis-Dreyfus — comedian Wanda Sykes surprised Las Vegas Prop 8 protesters by announcing she is gay and married her wife on Oct. 25.
Why speak up now? Because of Prop 8's passage. "I felt like I was being attacked, personally attacked — our community was attacked. … Now, I gotta get in their face. … I'm proud to be a woman. I'm proud to be a black woman, and I'm proud to be gay."
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MTV interviewed Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag to learn their thoughts on Prop 8 and gay marriage. Finally! We've been asking ourselves all along: "But what about Speidi? We need to know how they feel about this issue." Here's Spencer's eloquent answer:
Like I've always said: Heidi's hair and makeup people are some of my favorite homosexuals on the planet, and if they want to marry each other, I'm not about to be like, 'Don't.'
Way to go, loser. You managed to make a decent opinion into something absurd and offensive, all in one measly sentence. That's inspiring.
It's hard watching Anderson Cooper anchor a segment about gay rights — particularly, gay marriage — when he can't even acknowledge where he stands on the issue.
Starting at Sunset Junction in Silver Lake at 6 p.m. and arriving eight and a half hours later in West Hollywood at around 2:30 a.m., the Los Angeles Prop 8. protest ended early Sunday with a sit-in in the middle of the street. Throughout the night, groups would join the protest as it made its way through Hollywood and environs. While passing through the Sunset Strip, the rally picked up everyone's favorite angel, Drew Barrymore — and paparazzi — who marched with the approximately 3,000 swing shift protesters. As the exhausted but defiant crowd occupied the intersection of San Vicente and Santa Monica, Drew took to the microphone, tearfully telling the assembled crowd, "I will fight with you!"
All may not be lost in terms of Proposition 8, the California ballot measure that seems to have overturned gay marriage.
According to DailyKos, California Supreme Court Justice Ronald George, who wrote the majority opinion based on his state's precedent, not the Supreme Court, did not create a suspect class for gay folk, thereby leaving some wiggle room for debate:
GOOD FOR AH-NOLD " Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today released his positions on the 12 ballot measures [California] voters face Tuesday. … He opposes the gay marriage ban in Proposition 8."
Ellen DeGeneres laid the smack down on Sarah Palin today.
Okay, well, it's not a "smack down," but Ms. D made absolutely clear that she does not approve of Palin's support for a prohibitive federal marriage amendment. "Maybe it's just because I'm gay that I think we should all be equal, but I feel that we're all created equal," says the lesbian before going on about why same-sex nuptials do no harm.
Hoorah! The Connecticut Supreme Court today ruled 4-3 that the state's ban on gay marriage violates its constitution.
The decision came after eight gay citizens filed a lawsuit claiming civil unions were not the same as marriage and qualified as discrimination. And the Court agreed, as Justice Richard Palmer writes in the majority opinion:
Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi were recently wed in a very well-publicized ceremony in Beverly Hills. After that, DeGeneres took to her blog to decry California's Proposition 8, the constitutional amendment that would eliminate same sex couples' right to marry and could possibly nullify all the gay marriages that came before it.
Yet despite all the good she's done for gay rights in California, there's rumbling coming from other Proposition 8 opponents who say DeGeneres needs to contribute more. Specifically, Ellen has yet to send a big, fat check to the cause, and insiders say that that omission has the potential to hurt both Ellen and Prop 8 in the long run.
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GOOD PEOPLE DOING GOOD THINGS "Brad Pitt donated $100,000 to fight California's Proposition 8, a ballot initiative that would take away same-sex couples' right to marry. 'Because no one has the right to deny another their life, even though they disagree with it, because everyone has the right to live the life they so desire if it doesn't harm another and because discrimination has no place in America, my vote will be for equality and against Proposition 8,' the actor said in a statement."
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