Celebrities and Proposition 8

Here are a few choice quotes from various celebrities in regard to Proposition 8:

Melissa Etheridge: "Okay. So Prop 8 passed. Alright, I get it. Fifty-one percent of you think that I am a second class citizen. Alright then. So my wife, uh I mean, roommate? Girlfriend? Special lady friend? You are gonna have to help me here because I am not sure what to call her now."

Composer Marc Shaiman: "I then told [Scott Eckern, Artistic Director of California Musical Theater] that the idea that money from his salary that was, in a small way, made from a production of HAIRSPRAY had now been put to use to pass this bigoted Proposition truly hurt and sickened me and that no future project of mine would ever play his theatre."

Sean Penn: "I think its one shameful aspect of where we are today … but I think that with time, common sense will prevail."

Margaret Cho: "The fact that there is now a ban on gay marriage just kills my spirit, hurts my heart. I was deputized as a marriage commissioner in San Francisco in June, and I got to marry a gay couple and a lesbian couple at city hall, and it was such an honor and a blessing, and we all wept through the entire thing."

Dana Delaney: "There is a difference between having civil union and marriage .. there's something about standing in front of your peers and your families and saying that this is serious and that you want to stay together."

Samantha Ronson: "Yes, i am glad that the chickens will have more room and better conditions as they wait to die, but i just think it's frightening that people show more compassion for tomorrow's dinner than for the chef."

And, just so we get a reminder that Hollywood isn't unanimous in its support of gays and lesbians:

Chuck Norris: "Their pro-Prop. 8 votes weren't intended to deprive any group of its rights; they were safeguarding their honest convictions regarding the boundaries of marriage."

What? I didn't say it was going to be an intelligent statement against gay marriage...