Etheridge: No
More Taxes!

Melissa Etheridge is vowing to stop paying her taxes now that California citizens have voted to bar gay couples from marrying.

"I am taking that to mean I do not have to pay my state taxes because I am not a full citizen," the 44-year-old lesbian singer-songwriter wrote in a blog post on The Daily Beast. "I mean that would just be wrong, to make someone pay taxes and not give them the same rights, sounds sort of like that taxation without representation thing from the history books."

Etheridge goes on to say that she's excited about the enormous savings not paying taxes will bring her: "There is a lot I can do with the extra half a million dollars that I will be keeping instead of handing it over to the state of California. Oh, and I am sure Ellen will be a little excited to keep her bazillion bucks that she pays in taxes too."

Etheridge also questions when it became OK to legislate morality. "Gay people are born every day," she concludes. "You will never legislate that away." (The Advocate)