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Brad Pitt, George Clooney Perform In ‘8,’ a Play About Proposition 8
By Caitlin O’Toole • Mar 05, 2012 at 5:40 AM
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Lucky theatergoers got a big treat on Saturday night … when an all-star cast including Brad Pitt and George Clooney performed in Dustin Lance Black’s play about Proposition 8, California’s controversial ban on gay marriage – in Los Angeles.
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Proposition 8 eliminates Rights of Same-Sex Couples to Marry. It was a ballot proposition and constitutional amendment passed in the November 2008 state elections. The measure added a new provision that “only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.”.
The performance was a reversal of sorts as some openly gay members of the cast read the testimony of those opposed to same sex marriage.
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Brad Pitt and Kevin Bacon
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Brad, who played the role of Judge Vaughn Walker, is impassioned about the issue and has said that he and longtime partner Angelina Jolie won’t tie the knot until “everyone can.”.
“We live in this great country that is about freedom,” he once told Ellen DeGeneres. “It is defined by our freedom and equality and yet we allow this discrimination to go on everyday and that’s not what we’re about. That’s not what makes us great. Until that is reversed. I just don’t get it.”
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(Top row L-R) Actors Jansen Panettiere, Bridger Zadina, Jane Lynch, Vanessa Garcia, James Pickens Jr., Yeardley Smith, writer Dustin Lance Black, director Rob Reiner, and actor Rory O’Malley (Bottom row L-R) Actors Cleve Jones, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Chris Colfer, Christine Lahti, Jamie Lee Curtis, Martin Sheen, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Kevin Bacon, Matt Bomer, Matthew Morrison, Campbell Brown, and George Takei
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Check out video of the play here – Brad takes the stage around 35:51, FYI!
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What do you think about Proposition 8, and what did you think about the play?Tags : Brad Pitt, Bridger Zadina, Campbell Brown, Chris Colfer, Christine Lahti, Cleve Jones, George Clooney, george takei, James Pickens Jr., Jamie Lee Curtis, Jane Lynch, Jansen Panettiere, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Kevin Bacon, Martin Sheen, Matt Bomer, Matthew Morrison, Vanessa Garcia, Yeardley Smith
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First, this is only my opinion and like most it will probably offend some. I am “straight” but that shouldn’t matter. Each of us is raised by parents, teachers and mentors who instill in us to love one another as we would want to be loved. Therefore the hypocrisy of some to try and deny that love to others is such a terrible thing. I believe that love between two people, any two people, should only be judged on how real it is, not by the people in love. To me, to see such love on their faces should be stared at in envy and not in judgment. I only hope to have that same look on my face someday.
hard to understand the feelings of a other if you don`t know them, so don`t juges.
Marriage is between a man & a woman,anything else is just totally sick! God created man&women,people are just sick when they do things against his wishes! You have other countries that don't want to have anything to do with gay american,s,I don't blame them!Another sick thing is that society is allowing gay people to adopt children,that's not right,the bottom line is they just want those children to turn gay!MAY GOD HELP YOU SICK PEOPLE! You have to answer to your maker,is it going to get hot when it's your time to R I P ? Good luck w/that one sick people!
are you serious? your an idiot!
Yes!
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