Should Melissa Etheridge Pay California Taxes?

Somebody, give Melissa Etheridge some water.  While you’re at it, pour me a glass. Etheridge is burning mad about the California gay marriage ban, and I am right there with her.  She wrote a post on The Daily Beast blog where she suggests that California can forget about getting any tax payments from her, and the federal government too.  I think that’s a great idea.  If gays and lesbians don’t have equal rights, why should we pay equal taxes?  Maybe it’s time more of us got fighting mad.  A few well-located protests, a few fire hoses and police dogs might make the African-American community think twice about becoming the oppressor.  Here’s a quick excerpt from Etheridge’s blog:

“When did it become okay to legislate morality? I try to envision someone reading that legislation “eliminates the right” and then clicking yes. What goes through their mind? Was it the frightening commercial where the little girl comes home and says, “Hi mom, we learned about gays in class today” and then the mother gets that awful worried look and the scary music plays? Do they not know anyone who is gay? If they do, can they look them in the face and say “I believe you do not deserve the same rights as me”? Do they think that their children will never encounter a gay person? Do they think they will never have to explain the 20% of us who are gay and living and working side by side with all the citizens of California?

I got news for them, someday your child is going to come home and ask you what a gay person is. Gay people are born everyday. You will never legislate that away.”

You can read Melissa Etheridge’s blog post in it’s entirety here.