The passing of Prop 8 has riled a lot of people up. Especially gays who wanted to marry. So it’s no surprise that there is some backlash. Backlash in the form of an angry Melissa Etheridge who suggests now that she’s a “second class citizen” she doesn’t have to pay taxes. Melissa wrote on The Daily Beast:
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 workers and gym teachers and such, they won’t have to pay their taxes either.
If years of stereotyping have taught me anything, it’s that gay people suck at physical altercations. Fighting for them amounts to sissy flailing. Verbal altercations, on the other hand, they’re pretty good at. Just wait until the letter writing campaign comes into full swing. The people responsible for this proposition will beg for mercy after they begin to wither from the literary poison. Expect a lot of name calling as well, like, bitch or whore or the dreaded bitch whore.
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The only thing is, Prop 8 isn’t retroactive, meaning, marriages that occurred before it passed won’t be affected. Sorry Melissa, you’ve still gotta pay taxes…
they are in the proccess of fighting that too, so all those people who got married can have there rights taken away!
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… Read more »