From The Chicago Tribune:
How mad is Melissa Etheridge about California's rejection of gay marriage?
Mad enough to withhold her taxes.
The rocker, married five years to actress Tammy Lynn Michaels, posted a
fiery blog Thursday about the passage of Proposition 8, which limits marriage to
heterosexual couples.
"I am taking that to mean I do not have to pay my state taxes because I am
not a full citizen," Etheridge wrote at thedaily beast.com. "I mean, that would
just be wrong, to make someone pay taxes and not give them the same
rights."
The idea, she wrote, also could extend to other gay Californians: "I am
sure Ellen [DeGeneres] will be a little excited to keep her bazillion bucks that
she pays in taxes too."
Somewhere Ellen is like, "Godammit, Etheridge. Maybe you would stand inside your hell and hold the hand of death, but I've got celebrities to interview and mini-cheesecakes to pass out."
--Punch
1 comment:
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.
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