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Celebrities Thrilled By Gay Marriage Ruling

Posted on May 19, 2008 12:50pm · Filed under: Celebrity Gossips & News

Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi at People's Choice Awards

Celebrities are thrilled California Supreme Court’s ruling to overturn the state’s ban on gay marriage on Thursday.

The judges took a stance for equality as they reaffirmed their belief that all residents of the great state of California should be treated the same under the law.

Celebrities who are part of the LGBT community took the opportunity to speaks out to The Advocate about this historic day that many have waited.

Ellen DeGeneres:
“I’m thrilled that the California supreme court overturned the ban on gay marriage. I can’t wait to get married. We all deserve the same rights, and I believe that someday we’ll look back on this and not allowing gays to marry will seem as absurd as not allowing women to vote.

P.S. I’m registered at Crate & Barrel.”

T.R. Knight:
“Our ‘certain inalienable rights’ are protected today. It makes me proud to live in a country that works to correct its sins.”

Melissa Etheridge:
“I feel they have made an honest woman of me. What a wonderful blessing for us and the gay community. We’re moving forward. It makes me feel happy for the whole human race that we are finally getting out of our differences and coming together and we are putting this all behind us. It really is going to be the thing that we talk to our kids and our grandkids and say, ‘That was the olden days — wasn’t that ridiculous?’”

Chad Allen: “I have to say I was completely shocked at the level of emotion of my own reaction. It’s not that I didn’t care, it’s just that I didn’t know that I cared that much… I’m thinking about getting married. I am in love with my partner, deeply madly in love with him, and though I am not ready to propose yet, it is in there.”

Marc Jacobs:
“Who to love and how to love should be up to the individual or the couple. Enough said!”

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