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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Brad
Pitt has donated $100,000 to fight California's November ballot initiative
that would overturn the state Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex
marriage.
It's the first time voters will be asked to ban same-sex marriage in a state
where gay couples already have won the right to wed. Same-sex marriage is legal
in Massachusetts and California.
It's the first time voters will be asked to decide the issue in either
California or Massachusetts -- the states where gays have won the right to
wed.
''Because no one has the right to deny another their life, even though they
disagree with it, because everyone has the right to live the life they so desire
if it doesn't harm another and because discrimination has no place in America,
my vote will be for equality and against Proposition 8,'' Pitt said
Wednesday.
Trevor Neilson, Pitt's political and philanthropic adviser, told The
Associated Press that Pitt was surprised that his colleagues in the
entertainment industry had not donated more money to support the battle against
Proposition 8.
Earlier in the week, Pitt and Angelina
Jolie announced they donated $2 million to help fight HIV/AIDS and
tuberculosis in Ethiopia.
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