Ellen DeGeneres “Saddened Beyond Belief” Over Proposition 8
Atlanta, GA 11/06/2008 05:54 PM GMT (TransWorldNews)
Ellen DeGeneres says that she was “saddened beyond belief” when she learned that Proposition 8 had passed in California. Proposition 8 will ban same-sex marriages in the state and call in to question the legitimacy of nearly 16,000 gay and lesbian marriages—including DeGeneres’ marriage to longtime girlfriend Portia de Rossi. The proposition was passed by just over 52 percent.
“This morning, when it was clear that Proposition 8 had passed in California, I can’t explain the feeling I had. I was saddened beyond belief,” DeGeneres said in a message posted on her Web site. “Here we just had a giant step toward equality [with the election of Barack Obama] and then on the very next day, we took a giant step away.”
The proposition specifies that only marriages between a man and a woman will be recognized and it will rewrite the states constitution with those stipulations. Attorney Matthew D. Staver says that he believes California’s same-sex marriages will be annulled. “Constitutional amendments are retroactive,” he told People magazine.
Proposition 8 drew opposition from many other celebrities including Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Steven Spielberg and Lindsay Lohan.
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