The stripping of marriage rights from same-sex couples in California is giving renewed attention to calls for a national gay tax protest.
A handful of LGBT activists have refused to pay any state or federal income taxes for several years now. They argue that since they are not treated equally under the law as their heterosexual neighbors, they should not have to fork over the money they owe to state or federal governments.
Their protest has largely gone unnoticed or unheeded by the majority of LGBT Americans – until now.
Two days after the passage of Proposition 8, the anti-gay constitutional amendment California voters passed November 4 that bans gays and lesbians from marrying in the Golden State, lesbian singer Melissa Etheridge penned a posting on the Daily Beast blog titled "You can forget my taxes."
She wrote that she would be withholding the half a million dollars she owes the state in taxes this year and urged other LGBT people to do the same.
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