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New star-studded Web video protests Proposition 8
By JAKE COYLE, AP Entertainment Writer Jake Coyle, Ap Entertainment Writer - 2 hrs 45 mins ago
NEW YORK - Since Proposition 8 passed in California, much of Hollywood has been up in arms. Now, they are singing and dancing, too, in a new Web video called "Prop 8: The Musical."
The video was posted Wednesday on FunnyOrDie.com, the video site co-founded by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay. The site has found a niche in getting professional talent to quickly create topical comedy videos.
"Prop 8: The Musical" may be a 3-minute Internet video, but it has a blockbuster cast - including Jack Black (who plays Jesus), Neil Patrick Harris, John C. Reilly, Andy Richter, Maya Rudolph, Margaret Cho, Rashida Jones and others.
Though Jesus doesn't bring the two sides together, Harris has better luck. He argues gay marriage could save the economy: "Every time a gay or lesbian finds love at the parade, there's money to be made."
The video was conceived and written by Marc Shaiman, the Tony Award-winning composer of "Hairspray" and "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut." McKay, who had previously collaborated with Shaiman on the song-and-dance routine Ferrell, Black and Reilly did at the Oscars earlier this year, sent him an e-mail floating the idea of a video.
Shaiman had been involved in a more serious debate over Proposition 8.
After voters approved Proposition 8, which changed the state's constitution to ban same-sex marriage, it was revealed that Scott Eckern, the artistic director of the California Musical Theater in Sacramento (the state's largest nonprofit musical theater company) had donated $1,000 to the "Yes on 8" campaign.
Shaiman's "Hairspray" had played at the theater and he said he would never allow anything he wrote to play there because of Eckern's donation. Others protested and Eckern resigned in November.
In an interview Wednesday, Shaiman regretted that it came to Eckern losing his job and said: "It's a tragedy for everyone involved. You'll certainly see that no one called for him to resign."
The video for Funny or Die was a lighter-hearted protest.
Shaiman wrote the piece in a day, recorded it the next and shot it in a single day last week.
"It was like, `Eureka! That's right, that's what I do!" said Shaiman of the mini-musical. "If I'm going to stand on the soap box, at least let me sing and dance."
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Gee, how nice these folks get to alter the 'One Man / One Woman' family values heterosexual Marriage concept.
Gee, they can just alter that concept in any way that suit their desires just so long as it's not applicable to gays.
At least this isn't perverted like gay sex. (anal sex)
56-year-old Ohio woman gives birth to her daughter's triplets
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Since gay folks aren't entitled to the equal rights and benefits as heterosexuals (i.e. the right to marry), then I say they shouldn't have to pay equal taxes.
I propose a propsition be proposed to give gay folks a huge tax break. After all, why should gays pay as much as straight folks if we're not entitled to the same benefits?
Why didn't Jesus get married? Was it because he was waiting for gay marriage to be legal too?
Brad Pitt donates money to support gay marriage
27 minutes ago
Brad Pitt has donated $100,000 to fight California's November ballot initiative that would overturn the state Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage.
It's the first time voters will be asked to ban same-sex marriage in a state where gay couples already have won the right to wed. Same-sex marriage is legal in Massachusetts and California.
It's the first time voters will be asked to decide the issue in either California or Massachusetts - the states where gays have won the right to wed.
"Because no one has the right to deny another their life, even though they disagree with it, because everyone has the right to live the life they so desire if it doesn't harm another and because discrimination has no place in America, my vote will be for equality and against Proposition 8," Pitt said Wednesday.
Trevor Neilson, Pitt's political and philanthropic adviser, told The Associated Press that Pitt was surprised that his colleagues in the entertainment industry had not donated more money to support the battle against Proposition 8.
Earlier in the week, Pitt and Angelina Jolie announced they donated $2 million to help fight HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis in Ethiopia.
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Questions I Have About American Marriage
-Shouldn't the government be as paticular about heterosexual marriage as they are about the concept of homosexual marriage?
-As an example, if the Bride in a heterosexual marriage wear's 'White' on her wedding day, shouldn't she be obligated as a law abiding citizen to prove, at least to her immediate family or spouses family, that she is a virgin? Isn't that what wearing white implies?
-If not, then why is she wearing white?'
-Shouldn't that be as policed as making sure that the married couple have opposite sex organs?
-Since they police the genitalia of married couples, shouldn't they police the accuracy and truth of a Brides virginity?
-Since an American Marriage Contract is dependent upon the genitalia of the couple, doesn't that make it a sexual contract?
-If it's not a Sexual Contract, why should any American Adult be denied the right to enter into an American Marriage Contract based on the state of their genitalia?
-And if it's not a sexual contract, why does having similar genitalia disclude gay people from getting married?
-Doesn't that make discrimination legal against those American Adults who are vaginally challanged? And those who are penis challanged?
-And if a marriage contract is not about sex and money, why is consumating the marriage necessary for the contract to be in effect? That is, why is a sexual act on the wedding night necessary for the contract to become valid?
-And if consumating the marriage is not necessary to validate the contract, why are gay people being discluded?
-Gay people can have sex too. Or is marriage sex simply about procreating. And if so, why do some 20 and 30 year married heterosexuals have no children, or very few?
-Are married couples having sex just for fun and not just to make babies?
-And if so, why can't Gays just have sex for fun and not just to make babies?
-So is marriage sex isn't just to make babies, why are gays being discluded?
-If a state's citizens can vote on discriminating against gays, if they can vote on discluding gay people from having equal rights as heterosexuals, then shouldn't they also be permitted to vote on if they can discriminate against women, perhaps retracting their right to vote or work or own property?
-And if a state's citizens can vote on discriminating against gays, shouldn't they also be permitted to vote on discriminating against African-American, Mexican-American, Indian-American, and Jewish people too? Shouldn't they be permitted to vote on whether or not those people can vote here, live here, shop here, and pay taxes here?
-Since discrimnation is being voted on, shouldn't all discrimination be voted on?
-As a tax-payer, if I'm not entitled to equal rights, why should I have to pay equal taxes.
-Until gays have equal rights, they should be entitled to huge tax deductions. They should not have to pay for programs, freedoms, and legal rights that benefit the spouses of heterosexual marriages, when they themselves are not entitled to the same benefits, programs, freedoms, and rights.
