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Brad Pitt on Gay Marriage

January 8th, 2009

Brad Pitt for W Magazine

“People who are against gay marriage do not understand the very freedoms that they themselves are enjoying,” he argues. “What if someone said, ‘Sorry, no Christianity here? No Judaism. Certainly no Mormons.’ No one would stand for that, and I wouldn’t allow anyone to say that either. I’d fight them in the same way.” – Brad Pitt on W Magazine

Brad Pitt FTW! If you didn’t know, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie contributed $100,000 last year to California’s “No on Prop 8” campaign.  Not only that, he says that they will not get married until marriage rights are available to all. Go Brangelina!

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On Proposition 8: Gay Marriage Is a Question of Love

November 12th, 2008

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I think this is one of the most well-said, if not the best said, arguments about California’s Proposition 8. And yes, this came from Keith Olbermann!

Why does this matter to you? What is it to you? In a time of impermanence and fly-by-night relationships, these people over here want the same chance at permanence and happiness that is your option. They don’t want to deny you yours. They don’t want to take anything away from you. They want what you want—a chance to be a little less alone in the world.

Only now you are saying to them—no. You can’t have it on these terms. Maybe something similar. If they behave. If they don’t cause too much trouble.  You’ll even give them all the same legal rights—even as you’re taking away the legal right, which they already had. A world around them, still anchored in love and marriage, and you are saying, no, you can’t marry. What if somebody passed a law that said you couldn’t marry?

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Star Trek’s George Takei Applies for Gay Marriage License

June 23rd, 2008
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA - JUNE 17: Actor George Takei (R), known for his role in the science fiction TV series Star Trek, and his fiance Brad Altman talk to reporters while other gay couples wed as the era of same-sex marriage begins in California, June 17, 2008 in West Hollywood, California. Takei and Altman will marry at the Japanese National Museum in Los Angeles. Conservative and religious groups hope that voters will support their initiative on the November ballot to alter the state constitution to permanently ban gay marriages. Meanwhile, many business owners are looking for a wedding related sales boom. A study released by University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) this month projects that nearly half of the state's 102,600 same-sex couples will marry in the next three years and, along with same-sex couples from other states, will spend more than $683 million on weddings, honeymoons and other marriage-related activities.

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George Takei, the actor well-known for his performance as Mr. Sulu on Star Trek, has boldly gone where no man has gone before! Last week, George Takei applied for a marriage license with his partner of 21 years, Brad Altman.  Takei (and his partner) was one of the many gay and lesbian couples who applied for marriage licenses after the California Supreme Court knocked down the ban on same-sex marriage in the state last month.

Read more about it here: http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_9612448

For those who are not familiar with Mr. Sulu or Star Trek, you might remember George Takei as Hiro Nakamura’s father in the first season of the hit TV show Heroes.

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Ellen Degeneres To Marry Portia De Rossi

May 18th, 2008

A day after the California Supreme Court ruled that sexual orientation, race, and gender are not legitimate bases for withholding or denying legal rights – meaning that gay marriage is legal in the state of California – out lesbian TV Host Ellen Degeneres announced on her show that she and long-time partner Portia De Rossi will get married.

Details of the California Supreme Court Ruling on gay marriage here.

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