Stars React to Proposition 8

Tom Hanks: "The truth is a lot of Mormons gave a lot of money to the church to make Prop-8 happen... There are a lot of people who feel that is un-American, and I am one of them. I do not like to see any discrimination codified on any piece of paper."

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Donny Osmond: "Whether we may be tempted to be immoral with members of our own sex or of the opposite sex, we are expected to live chaste lives."

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Madonna: "I am very sad to hear we didn't win Proposition 8. But we will not give up the fight. No, we will not. Never! If we got an African-American in the White House, we can have gay marriages."

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Christina Aguilera: "I think it is discrimination and I don't understand how people can be so closed-minded and so judgmental. We chose an African-American president, and it means so much ... Why you would put so much money behind something stopping from people loving each other and bonding together?"

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Samantha Ronson: "I guess people care more about farm animals than they do their fellow man, that's really sad to me... I just think it's frightening that people show more compassion for tomorrow's dinner than for the chef."

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Ellen Degeneres: "Here we just had a giant step toward equality and then on the very next day, we took a giant step away. I believe one day a 'ban on gay marriage' will sound totally ridiculous. In the meantime, I will continue to speak out for equality for all of us."

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George Clooney: "At some point in our lifetime, gay marriage won't be an issue, and everyone who stood against this civil right will look as outdated as George Wallace standing on the school steps keeping James Hood from entering the University of Alabama because he was black."

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Drew Barrymore: "People who I love are being affected by this - people who have defined who I am. This can not happen. We have to change this. This is so wrong. With all my heart I could not feel more passionate about this."

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Harvey Fierstein: "We great Americans reached out and willfully put our name to language that denies an entire minority group their equal rights... Florida and California have now made it legal for gay men and lesbians to marry as long as we don't marry our partners. How much sense does that make?"

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Melissa Etheridge: "[My wife] 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... sounds sort of like that taxation without representation thing from the history books."

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