Melissa Etheridge to Stop Paying Taxes Due to Prop 8

[Anarky]

Surprisingly, nobody has died. But I'm pretty sure that if we dig hard enough, we can find a quasi-interesting death to which we all say "Oh, I'm so sorry!"

But in the meantime, there's this. I assume everyone knows what Proposition Eight was? If not, have a bit of a catchup:

Proposition 8 is a California State ballot proposition that would amend the state Constitution, to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman, overturning a recent California Supreme Court decision that had recognized same-sex marriage in California as a fundamental right. The official ballot title language for Proposition 8 was "Eliminates Right of Same-Sex Couples to Marry". On the day after the election, the results remained uncertified. With 100% of precincts reporting, the vote was 52.5% in favor of Proposition 8 and 47.5% against, with a difference of about 504,000 votes as many as 3 million absentee and provisional ballots remain to be counted

Now, to make this interesting or even relevant, we need celebrities to attach to it. Someone already mentioned George Takei, so I can't use that anymore. I'll use Melissa Etheridge instead. And not just because she's openly gay and used to be married to a woman - technically still would be, but Prop Eight makes that a bit... ambiguous - no, Melissa Etheridge has actually got something to say. Something interesting.

Okay. So Prop 8 passed. Alright, I get it. 51% of you think that I am a second class citizen. Alright then. So my wife, uh I mean, roommate? Girlfriend? Special lady friend? You are gonna have to help me here because I am not sure what to call her now. Anyways, she and I are not allowed the same right under the state constitution as any other citizen. Okay, so I am taking that to mean I do not have to pay my state taxes because I am not a full citizen. 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.
Okay, cool I don't mean to get too personal here but 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. Wow, come to think of it, there are quite a few of us fortunate gay folks that will be having some extra cash this year. What recession? We're gay!
Oh and too bad California, I know you were looking forward to the revenue from all of those extra marriages. I guess you will have to find some other way to get out of the budget trouble you are in.

"Wait, but she can't!" you say? I say she's got every damn right to not support a system that is based on freedom and the right for everyone to be happy (see "We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness." for further reference). So good on her. Go Melissa and I hope she'll find many supporters.

Of course, knowing the state, they'll throw her and whoever supports her into jail at some point, but that may or may not be slightly illegal, depending on how you define the right to protest.

All in all, this pleases me.