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Spielberg Donates $100,000 to Support Gay Marriage

by Jarrett Martineau | September 23, 2008 at 11:01 am

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Following Brad Pitt's $100k lead from last week, Steven Spielberg and his wife Kate Capshaw have joined the fight for gay rights and matched Pitt's donation of $100,000 to oppose California's Proposition 8 which would seek to band same-sex marriage.

Steven Spielberg and his wife, Kate Capshaw, are the latest celebrity donors to the fight against California's November ballot initiative that would overturn the state Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage.

Spielberg and Capshaw have donated $100,000 to fight Proposition 8, they announced in a statement Monday.

"By writing discrimination into our state constitution, Proposition 8 seeks to eliminate the right of each and every citizen in our state to marry regardless of sexual orientation," the statement said. "Such discrimination has NO place in California's constitution, or any other."

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mchawk

flagged this story as Good Stuff

at 14:53 on September 23rd, 2008

Jarrett Martineau, I like this story. It's good stuff.

How can you legislate against people being people? As Josh Lyman said "I'm all for small government. I especially like it when it's small enough to fit into your bedroom."