Steven Spielberg joins the good fight, ponies up cash.

www.afterelton.com - 23rd Sep 2008

Steven Spielberg: Just last week, we blogged about Brad Pitt giving a hundred thousand dollars to fight Proposition 8 (which would end gay marriages in California), and wondered why more high profile people in the entertainment industry hadn't offered up the big bucks. Now comes word that Steven Spielberg and his wife Kate Capshaw are also donating a hundred grand to defeat the measure.   Spielberg and Capshaw said in a statement, "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. Such discrimination has NO place in California's constitution, or any other.   Spielberg pal Bruce Cohen, who recently mar Read full story at www.afterelton.com

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