Melissa Etheridge Might Have The Right Idea
Since Prop 8 passed in California, Melissa Etheridge's marriage to Tammy Lynn Michaels isn't really a marriage anymore in the legal sense. I guess? Right? Well, Melissa will protest the ban on gay marriage by not paying state taxes! Melissa wrote on The Daily Beast about her plan:
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! I am sure there will be a little box on the tax forms now single, married, divorced, gay, check here if you are gay, yeah, that's not so bad. Of course all of the waiters and hairdressers and UPS worker
Hmmm....no state taxes in California? CA already has In-N-Out and now the gays don't have to pay taxes! Woo hoo! Grab my dildo collection, pa, I'm going out west!
Think of all the things I can buy with my extra dough from not paying state taxes. I can buy more discontinued Mother's Animal Cookies, I can eat In-N-Out all day, I can even go to Disneyland like once (that shit ain't cheap)! Fuck. All of us can go to T.G.I. Friday's and the Mudslides will be on me! It'll be a 24-hour party!
That's until the IRS comes to kill my fun and take me away in handcuffs. When I start screaming, "Melissa Etheridge told me I didn't have to pay taxes," they'll just nod their heads and shuttle me off to prison. Oh well. At least you can bring me warm Hot Pockets during visiting days. You'll owe me for all those cocktails I bought you! And I'm sure I can be someone's wife in the clink!
Click here to read Melissa's entire entry.
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Submitted by Sandbitch on November 6, 2008 - 10:35pm.
What to do with the fuckwitted. Can't live with them, can't kill em. Sigh.
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Unfortunately Sandy, they'd think it was perfectly okay to off the majority of us. Seems the term "Live and Let Live," is completely against everything they've been brainwashed to believe.
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I was just sitting here minding my own business...
On Topic...Doesn't Melissa's wifey look like a plump Kendra Wilkinson!
What to do with the fuckwitted. Can't live with them, can't kill em. Sigh.
Submitted by imk505 on November 6, 2008 - 10:28pm.
Would you like directions to Utah?
OMG, can you imagine having to go down on Melissa Etheridge until death do you part? Fuck, if I were her partner I'd hope that California outlawed muffing diving too.
Submitted by imk505 on November 6, 2008 - 10:28pm.
Obey
The key to happiness (for a lemming).
FYI - Prop 8 received more than half of its $40M backing from the Mormon church.
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g'wan. really? churches can spend that kind of money on state decisions. youse guys is focked up.
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Submitted by harlow on November 6, 2008 - 10:15pm.
if you let me marry a woman i love why not let me marry a hamburger that i love with it's sexy juiciness...::mmm::
or let me marry my 14 yr old girl cousin that i want to share the rest of my life with...
where do we draw the line?
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atchu....
No, I keed, I keed...
Look, if you want to marry your 18 year old 2nd cousin, many states allow that, so we are negotitating over a few years AND only a few years ago in many states, perfectly legal to marry at 14....Society EVOLVES. We now allow children to be children. Why can't we allow consenting ADULTS the CONSTITUTIONAL right to enter into a MARRIAGE CONTRACT. You want to make marriage more than a legal binding contract, then fine, knock yourself out, but UNDER THE LAW that's ALL IT IS. Under the law, where is gay marriage unconstitional? Hmmmm?
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Sorry, Roger, you are tiger now...
Hey Orbitt - where you from? Outer space maybe? :)
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FYI - Prop 8 received more than half of its $40M backing from the Mormon church.
It's totally appalling that Prop H8 passed in California. I voted against it, and I support the protester who are marching on the Mormon church in Westwood right now.
Straight person here who completely agrees with Melissa. You pay taxes and obey the law, you get equal rights in return. Period.
This wasn't about someone marrying their bruzzin' or their goat. This was about two people of the same sex having the ability to have the same benefits under the tax laws as heteros. Sorry but, homos have been around FOREVVA and were persecuted then and NOW.
People who say, "Oh you can CHOOSE your sexuality" need to STFU because there are so many INTRICATE things that happen when a child comes into this world and hormones are one of them. Granted, a gay person can stay in the closet and live a lie to get by but what kind of fucked up, shiteous life is THAT? We are not talking about "sancitity" anyway. We are talking about LAW and RECOGNITION. Gawd forbid.
I don't know why ever'body makin' a big stank out of who you bump 'gineys, pee pees or a'holes with. I mean, anyway you bump it, if you bumpin' it right it gonna stank...Let a ho stank in his or her own way, and if they wanna bring that stank into a marriage, so be it...
EVER'BODY GETCHU STANK ON...WE HAVIN' US A DLISTED STANK OUT!...Yeah, uh...DListers, I-I think you should kind of cool it...uh, my eyes are burning ...HOLY SHIT! WHAT HAVE I DONE????? CALL THE FIRE DEPARTMENT TO HOSE DOWN THESE D-LISTED HO'S!
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Sorry, Roger, you are tiger now...
Gays should do whatever they want. BTW Tammy Lynn Looks like kendra
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Submitted by harlow on November 6, 2008 - 10:15pm.
if you let me marry a woman i love why not let me marry a hamburger that i love with it's sexy juiciness...::mmm::
or let me marry my 14 yr old girl cousin that i want to share the rest of my life with...
where do we draw the line?
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You draw the line when TWO CONSENTING adults close their bedroom door! I did not spend my time in the military defending all that American's hold dear to DENY any SINGLE one of them the SAME RIGHTS THAT I OR YOU HAVE.
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I was just sitting here minding my own business...
if you let me marry a woman i love why not let me marry a hamburger that i love with it's sexy juiciness...::mmm::
or let me marry my 14 yr old girl cousin that i want to share the rest of my life with...
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"that's the first time i had d*** in my mouth, and that's the last time i'm going to choke on it.." Dani
Melissa is awesome. Good points all around.
P.S. Someone call the hotness going by the username Mr. President. Provolone is under the impression that he is the only manly hetero man on this site. And shout-out Team Valtrex while you're out there.
thanksmuch xoxo
AND I heart the Tiger lady. That's all.
Submitted by Sandbitch on November 6, 2008 - 10:02pm.
"Maybe I'll go Aussie, seeing poop go around in a different direction when you flush could be mind blowing, especially on.....weed"
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Watching poop swirl? The idiot is easily amused. We don't want your type downunder, a cone shared with you would be cone wasted.
YEAAAAAAAAAAA POOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What's a 'cone' in aussie speak. I need to brush up for when i go there.
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"They lie about marijuana. Tell you pot-smoking makes you unmotivated. Lie! When you're high, you can do everything you normally do, just as well. You just realize that it's not worth the fucking effort"
Submitted by Provolone on November 6, 2008 - 9:58pm.
Submitted by Pearl_Necklace on November 6, 2008 - 9:52pm.
Im moving so you can't send me to the US gulag. If goddamn continental europe spoke english I'd go there. Maybe I'll go Aussie, seeing poop go around in a different direction when you flush could be mind blowing, especially on.....weed
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Oh, hon, come on, make the effort. Buy yourself Rosetta and pick up another language. After 8 years of Bush, that attitude isn't quite welcome in those fine countries. P.S., the vast majority of Aussies love Obama; get ready to whinge down under, too. Cheers ;*
Submitted by Mrs.Kravitz on November 6, 2008 - 8:30pm.
@TigerLilly
what did you have for lunch today?
You are on a roll!!!.
LMAO!
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so was her lunch!
lol @ ainsley i forgot all about doris/stockwell day! shit that was funny.
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The earth is populated enough, overpopulated in fact, which would be why there are so many "problems". Maybe if people did what we were really put on this Earth to do which is to love ourselves and each other and live in peace and intelligence and acceptance, we wouldn't have had all these "problems" in the first place.absolutely, the ppl from ****SUGAR babyMeet.co m *^*^*^* will be more interested in your comment.....lololol
"Maybe I'll go Aussie, seeing poop go around in a different direction when you flush could be mind blowing, especially on.....weed"
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Watching poop swirl? The idiot is easily amused. We don't want your type downunder, a cone shared with you would be cone wasted.
@- Tigerlilly- Lol!
ME ME ME ME ME ME ME MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Not YOU YOU YOU YOU YOU YOU YOUUUUUUUUU
That about sum it up?
So much for freedom and tolerance and acceptance and CHANGE.
Submitted by itsthebritneybitch on November 6, 2008 - 9:58pm.
It sure does. I had a gay dog once. His name was Homer.
Homer the Homosexual.
Dumb as a brick but very beautiful and the sweetest natured dog ever. I loved him to death.
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Wyle E Coyote
'Since we're here to populate the Earth and all that jazz...'
Submitted by truthis on November 6, 2008 - 9:54pm.
Gay marriage is wrong. That's how I feel. If you don't want to pay taxes, move to another country. Stop trying to shove your twisted ideas down our throats. The people have spoken. Accept it!
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Ok, I gitchu....
You know, a lot of you humans think that eating people is wrong too, but that's not how we tigers feel among others in the flesh eating community feel...The carnivores have spoken. You peeps is tasty...Accept it!
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Sorry, Roger, you are tiger now...
Submitted by truthis on November 6, 2008 - 9:54pm.
People that use words like, 'is just wrong' give the impression that they don't know how to articulate an argument to support their views.
Which gives the impression they are talking out their arse instead of their brain.
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Wyle E Coyote
'Since we're here to populate the Earth and all that jazz...'
Submitted by truthis on November 6, 2008 - 9:54pm.
Gay marriage is wrong. That's how I feel. If you don't want to pay taxes, move to another country. Stop trying to shove your twisted ideas down our throats. The people have spoken. Accept it!
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Really? Says who? Biology: Homosexuality exists in animals in nature.
"Kfed done stole mah bebe's"
Submitted by Dominique Devereaux on November 6, 2008 - 9:56pm.
She's right. If the govt is not working for you don't work for the govt and don't pay their fucking asses with your taxes until they do.
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good point, to me this is like the "whites only" Southern segration/Jim Crow laws. Classic case for civil disobedience. If you are gay, your rights are being relegated to second class status/denied. BUT you're still taxed like a "legitimate" citizen. Nicks that shit -- aaaah, eyeballs back in my sockets ;)
Submitted by Pearl_Necklace on November 6, 2008 - 9:52pm.
Im moving so you can't send me to the US gulag. If goddamn continental europe spoke english I'd go there. Maybe I'll go Aussie, seeing poop go around in a different direction when you flush could be mind blowing, especially on.....weed
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"They lie about marijuana. Tell you pot-smoking makes you unmotivated. Lie! When you're high, you can do everything you normally do, just as well. You just realize that it's not worth the fucking effort"
Troll list: provolone, belladiva, chicaloca, original putas. BAN.
Submitted by bowoe on November 6, 2008 - 9:53pm.
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oh shit... Spammer ate the troll droppings, good times, gotta go: picking up my rolling eyes from the floor
She's right. If the govt is not working for you don't work for the govt and don't pay their fucking asses with your taxes until they do.
Submitted by jussayin on November 6, 2008 - 9:44pm.
Excellently put.
"Kfed done stole mah bebe's"
Gay marriage is wrong. That's how I feel. If you don't want to pay taxes, move to another country. Stop trying to shove your twisted ideas down our throats. The people have spoken. Accept it!
Submitted by Sandbitch on November 6, 2008 - 9:51pm.
Submitted by Pearl_Necklace on November 6, 2008 - 9:49pm.
"Bella Diva" got her whinging ass banned yesterday -- same clumsy shit-stirring.
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Did she? Oh joy of joys.
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'xactly, reads just as randomly with the tarded use of language, same issue. Wait till he/she/it goes all "hehehehehehehe" at every turn. You can just imagine it whacking off in mom's basement, iiick :/
Speaking of which, I need to pop a xanax and smoke some weed.
The earth is populated enough, overpopulated in fact, which would be why there are so many "problems". Maybe if people did what we were really put on this Earth to do which is to love ourselves and each other and live in peace and intelligence and acceptance, we wouldn't have had all these "problems" in the first place.absolutely, the ppl from ****SUGAR babyMeet.co m *^*^*^* will be more interested in your comment.....lololol
Submitted by Tubereuse on November 6, 2008 - 8:47pm.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prop_22
I myself support gay marriage but more than that I support the will of the people. If we follow Melissa's thinking, all the McCain/Palin supporters should stop paying taxes, too?
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I like your last point in general. I get pissed off at all kinds of new laws or political selections, but that's the stumbling, herky-jerky way that democracy works.
As far as Prop 22, it was a statute (a law) enacted by popular initiative. It therefore could be overturned or superseded by another statute or even by a court--happens all the time. But the statutory repeal never happened becuz the Gov vetoed it. That left it up to the courts to rule on Prop 22, which the CA Supremes finally resolved in 2008.
The new initiative, Prop 8, is a state constitutional amendment. A statute can't overturn it (the const is more powerful). It's been debated forever whether one part of the constitution can be found unconstitutional under another part. *scratching chin*
Here's one for us... why don't we scrap personal income taxes altogether like some countries have? (e.g. UAE, Switzerland)
There are other options for funding public infrastructure that work quite well.
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Wyle E Coyote
'Since we're here to populate the Earth and all that jazz...'
Hush yo mouf, Provolone!
I might have to report you to President Obama, seeing as we're all Soviet-styling and all ;)
Now be a good angry 'muricun and fix me a provolone sammich ^_^
Submitted by HotSlutOfTheDecade on November 6, 2008 - 9:05pm.
The difference is that McCain/Palin supporters are not having rights taken away. Also, McCain/Palin supporters chose to support McCain. Gay people ARE intrinsically gay. That's what they are and denying them rights because of who they are is discrimination. That's the difference.
"Kfed done stole mah bebe's"
Submitted by Pearl_Necklace on November 6, 2008 - 9:49pm.
"Bella Diva" got her whinging ass banned yesterday -- same clumsy shit-stirring.
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Did she? Oh joy of joys.
People eat Xanex pills which is legal, but i can't smoke Weed. Therefore I am NOT paying taxes!!
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"They lie about marijuana. Tell you pot-smoking makes you unmotivated. Lie! When you're high, you can do everything you normally do, just as well. You just realize that it's not worth the fucking effort"
"Original Putas" <-- LOL! Sounds like "Bella Diva" got her whinging ass banned yesterday -- same clumsy shit-stirring.
Submitted by kiwikim on November 6, 2008 - 9:32pm.
Cool. I was wondering when someone would have the guts to do this. I mean why do heteros with kids get to tax everyone to hell so that they can send their kids to school for free, get the earned income credit and other tax rebates, welfare, etc? No one lifestyle should dictate what everyone else pays. If people want to have kids, great. Start paying for it. Don't make gays pay for your "lifestyle choices" when you don't want to pay for theirs.
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Thank you! I'm all for public education, but I have no children and don't intend to breed ever, so yes. If we're going to bar consenting adults from the same benefits as married heteros, than why should singles or gays support breeders' "lifestyles"?
Also, I strongly believe that the word "marriage" should be dropped from the debate. Anything handled by the government -- which is supposed to represent both the religious and non-religious taxpayers alike -- should not smell of religion. Other developed countries call them "civil" unions or wedlock. They all should be civil unions. Let the churches handle "marriages"/"sacred vows"/whatever.
Submitted by original putas on November 6, 2008 - 9:32pm.
'...Since we're here to populate the Earth and all that jazz'
I'm pretty sure its been populated for a while now. Oh and yesterday I got married and I cannot have children. How does that sit with you? Does that mean my relationship is disfunctional?
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Wyle E Coyote
MK: You know, he might as well be naked. Yeah, that sounds like the best idea... And his hotness can blind the enemy.
Submitted by original putas on November 6, 2008 - 9:32pm.
I hate these types of people, always throwing their issue in your face and demanding acceptance.
Homosexuality isn't normal. Homosexuals cant have babies. Since we're here to populate the Earth and all that jazz, anything that works against that mission is abnormal.
I hate certain types of people too.....BIGOTS!
Stupidity is not normal either, but here you go....
The earth is populated enough, overpopulated in fact, which would be why there are so many "problems". Maybe if people did what we were really put on this Earth to do which is to love ourselves and each other and live in peace and intelligence and acceptance, we wouldn't have had all these "problems" in the first place.
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