In response to the recent success of Prop 8, a legislative overturn of the Californian Gay Marriage ruling earlier in the year, Lesbian Singer Melissa Etheridge is refusing to pay the state's taxes.

Etheridge, who married her long-term partner, Actress Tammy Lynn Michaels in 2003, has had the legality of her  marriage called into question by the passing last week of Proposition 8, which will now reverse the recent decision to legalise same sex marriages in California.

Etheridge believes that this legal ruling  makes her a "second class citizen" in the eyes of the state and therefore she has told the Daily Beast  that the state will not receive a cent from her.

She wrote: "OK. So Prop 8 has passed. Alright, I get it. 51% of you think I am a second class citizen. Alright, then. So my wife, uh I mean, roommate? Girlfriend? Special lady friend? You are gonna have to help me here because I am not sure what to call her now. Anyways, she and I are not allowed the same right under the state constitution as any other citizen."

She continued: "I am taking that to mean I do not have to pay my state takes because I am not a full citizen. I mean that would just be wrong, to make someone pay taxes and not give them the same rights, sounds like that taxation without representation thing from the history books."

Pete Wentz from Fall Out Boy reasoned the Prop 8 success to California residents being "intimidated" into voting for the anti-gay marriage measure: "Many people were intimidated on this issue due to the scary misleading communications on the other side. I believe this is, and has always been, a civil rights issue. We should not allow inequality like this is America."

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