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"There&amp;#x27;s nothing I can say to improve upon the open letter in support of gay marriage that Ellen DeGeneres wrote to the U.S. Supreme Court and posted on her blog, so I&amp;#x27;m just going to copy and paste it below. California&amp;#x27;s Proposition 8 is headed to the Supreme Court. Hundreds of companies and families as well as Republicans are submitting briefs urging the 9 judges to allow gay people to marry. I thought that was ridiculous. Why would judges want all of that underwear? Then, after a quick talk with some people, I found out what a brief was. I&amp;#x27;ve never filed a brief to the Supreme Court, so I thought I would post mine here. I&amp;#x27;m sure someone will tweet it to them. Portia and I have been married for 4 years and they have been the happiest of my life. And in those 4 years, I don&amp;#x27;t think we hurt anyone else&amp;#x27;s marriage. I asked all of my neighbors and they say they&amp;#x27;re fine. But even though Portia and I got married in the short period of time when it was legal in California, there are 1,138 federal rights for married couples that we don&amp;#x27;t have, including some that protect married people from losing their homes, or their savings or custody of their children. The truth is, Portia and I aren&amp;#x27;t as different from you as you might think. We&amp;#x27;re just trying to find happiness in the bodies and minds we were given, like everyone else. Coming out was one of the hardest things I ever did. I didn&amp;#x27;t intend to be on the cover of Time magazine saying, &amp;quot;Yep, I&amp;#x27;m gay.&amp;quot; The truth is, I don&amp;#x27;t even remember saying that. I mean, I definitely said the &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m gay&amp;quot; part. It&amp;#x27;s the &amp;quot;yep&amp;quot; I don&amp;#x27;t remember. I&amp;#x27;m not really a &amp;quot;yep&amp;quot; person. &amp;quot;Yes siree Bob&amp;quot; maybe. But not &amp;quot;yep.&amp;quot; In the words of Benjamin Franklin, &amp;quot;We&amp;#x27;re here, we&amp;#x27;re queer, get over it.&amp;quot; And there&amp;#x27;s another famous quote that says &amp;quot;A society is judged by how it treats its weakest members.&amp;quot; I couldn&amp;#x27;t agree with that more. No one&amp;#x27;s really sure who said it first, so if anyone asks, tell them I said it. I hope the Supreme Court will do the right thing, and let everyone enjoy the same rights. It&amp;#x27;s going to help keep families together. It&amp;#x27;s going to make kids feel better about who they are. And it is time. *I was just told Benjamin Franklin did not say that first quote. I apologize and see that I have a lot to learn about stuff. Thoughts on Ellen&amp;#x27;s letter to the Supreme Court? I&amp;#x27;m not sure anyone can argue with that logic. (Although I&amp;#x27;m sure some people will try. Womp-womp.) Photo: via Ellentv.com."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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