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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Steven
Spielberg and his wife, Kate
Capshaw, are the latest celebrity donors to the fight against California's
November ballot initiative that would overturn the state Supreme Court decision
legalizing same-sex
marriage.
Spielberg and Capshaw have donated $100,000 to fight Proposition 8, they
announced in a statement Monday.
''By writing discrimination into our state constitution, Proposition 8 seeks
to eliminate the right of each and every citizen in our state to marry
regardless of sexual orientation,'' the statement said. ''Such discrimination
has NO place in California's constitution, or any other.''
Also known as the Marriage Protection Act, Proposition 8 would amend the
state constitution to limit marriage to a man and a woman. If passed, it would
overturn the court decision that made the state only the second in the U.S. to
legalize same-sex marriage.
Brad
Pitt gave the same amount to the cause last week.