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17 Nov
Melissa Etheridge Backing Away from Tax Protest
Posted by NR Davis in News. Tagged: Activism, Boycott, Boycott Bigoted Churches, boycott california, Boycott Utah, California, Church/State, citizen action, civil disobedience, civil rights, Commentary, Community Service, Equality, GLBT, Human Rights, Interviews, Law, Left v. Right, Marriage Equality, Media, News, No on 8, no on prop 8, no on proposition 8, no taxation without equality, Progressive, Progressive Protest, proposition 8, Television, Video. Leave a Comment
Wimp.
But she does have kids to consider, after all… I have to respect that and so does she.
Still. If you are a second-class citizen under law, why would you want to help fund your legal diminishment? Why pay to be oppressed?
Whatever. Melissa Etheridge was on Oprah and came clean that her pledge to eschew taxes was done in a fit of anger. She says she’ll make a final decision about whether she’ll help pay the tab for her legal outlaw status by April 15.