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Stars Protest Prop 8 Ruling in West Hollywood Streets (including Shanna Moakler)
Acess Hollywood ^ | LAST UPDATED: May 27, 2009 12:56 PM EDT

Posted on 05/27/2009 10:27:40 AM PDT by lewisglad

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- On Tuesday morning, the California Supreme Court upheld Proposition 8 — the gay marriage ban passed back in November 2008 — and on Tuesday night some of Hollywood’s biggest celebrities joined thousands of protesters in the streets of West Hollywood to voice their anger, frustration and hope of a future overturning of the proposition.

Celebrities in attendance included Drew Barrymore, Kathy Griffin and her mother Maggie Griffin, George Takei and husband Brad Altman, Kelly Osbourne and finance Luke Worrell, Deborah Gibson, Emmy Rossum, Sophia Bush, Perez Hilton and Shanna Moakler.

Access Hollywood caught up with Kathy Griffin at the rally, who expressed her shame about the ruling to uphold the proposition.

“I’m a proud Californian, but today I was ashamed of the Supreme Court,” Kathy told Access. “I think they are gonna do the right thing eventually… things like this, people taking it to the streets, this is how change really happens. And I’m so proud to be part of it, and I’m so proud of my mom for coming out here. She’s the 89-year-old activist. That last time she marched was against prohibition, so this is great!”

Kathy explained that California is not as liberal as some may perceive it.

’[Some] think that we’re a bunch of hippies and we’re too progressive [in California.] Turns out that Iowa has it right, we still have a way to go,” she said of the Midwest state that recently legalized gay marriage. “But I really believe we’re gonna overturn it.”

Access also talked to Deborah Gibson (“Mega-Shark vs. Giant Octopus”), who said she was shocked by the decision.

“I was raised a good Catholic girl and nowhere in church do I remember it ever being an issue for everybody to be treated equally. I can’t believe it’s 2009 and this is still an issue to be quite honest,” she explained. “People just have to continue to be vocal and even if it takes a while for people to officially change at least the community feels supported. And they feel shunned by their government but at least they know that their fellow citizens support them, love them and care what happens and I think that that’s a great message that everybody’s sending out today.”

Former Co-Executive Director of the Miss California Organization Shanna Moakler told Access she was protesting for her children.

“I’m a mother [and] I want my kids to grow up and have the same rights as me and I want them to be able to choose who they wanna love and be able to get married to whomever they choose to love,” she said.

Shanna said she believes anti-gay marriage groups are attempting to court the young vote by rallying behind people like Miss California Carrie Prejean – who said gay marriage should not be legalized during the recent Miss USA 2009 pageant.

“One of the reasons why [anti-gay marriage groups] latched on to Miss California is because she is young and because they’re losing the youth. And the youth is gonna come of age. They are gonna get to vote and they’re gonna make a difference. They’re gonna make a change,” Shanna told Access.

Like many of the protesters in the crowd, Kelly Osbourne was also left feeling angered by the court’s decision.

“It goes without saying that if you love someone, you should be able to marry them no matter… I can’t even explain to you how frustrating it is that … I don’t get it. I just don’t understand it,” she told Access. “Why is it such a problem? Why do people care who somebody loves and who somebody [wants] to marry?”

Many of the speakers at the rally said the fight for marriage equality would continue in the 2010 election.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: caglbt; california; carrieprejean; homosexualagenda; marriage; perezhilton; prop8; proposition8; samesexmarriage; shannamoakler
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1 posted on 05/27/2009 10:27:41 AM PDT by lewisglad
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To: lewisglad
Perez Hilton and Shanna Moakler.

These two have probably been in cahoots all along.
2 posted on 05/27/2009 10:28:54 AM PDT by ChocChipCookie (Earth: It's not your mother, it's just a big rock.)
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To: lewisglad

I guess they all must march to show how clueless they are on what the court did? Look at me I’m stoopid.


3 posted on 05/27/2009 10:29:14 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: lewisglad

Prop 8 in CA was passed the same day in AZ and FL - anyone hear of lawsuits there? What is local reaction?


4 posted on 05/27/2009 10:29:35 AM PDT by edcoil (IF CA rolls pollution standards back to 1990 levels, lets roll CA spending back as well.)
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To: lewisglad

I honked and gave them all a nice “thumbs down” on my way home last night....


5 posted on 05/27/2009 10:29:41 AM PDT by Beaten Valve
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To: lewisglad

What in God’s name is a “Shanna Moakler”?


6 posted on 05/27/2009 10:30:57 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Christian+Veteran=Terrorist)
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To: lewisglad
Shanna Moakler:

I most certainly would hit that.

7 posted on 05/27/2009 10:31:10 AM PDT by Owl_Eagle (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: lewisglad
Celebrities in attendance included Drew Barrymore, Kathy Griffin and her mother Maggie Griffin, George Takei and husband Brad Altman, Kelly Osbourne and finance Luke Worrell, Deborah Gibson, Emmy Rossum, Sophia Bush, Perez Hilton and Shanna Moakler.

Eeewww... Still haven't gotten used to the fact that Mr Sulu is as gay as a Christmas tree...

As for Shanna Moakler, who the hell is she?

Actually, rereading the list, other than Barrymore, they are all C and D list celebs, which says something.

8 posted on 05/27/2009 10:31:43 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Beaten Valve

Deborah Gibson (“Mega-Shark vs. Giant Octopus”), said she was shocked by the decision. trailer...lol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa7ck5mcd1o


9 posted on 05/27/2009 10:32:38 AM PDT by lewisglad
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To: Owl_Eagle

Is she hetero or a lesbo?


10 posted on 05/27/2009 10:32:41 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: lewisglad

Quite a list of “celebrities” there.


11 posted on 05/27/2009 10:32:46 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: lewisglad

All of these celebrity loving gay freaks can jump off a cliff. They just can’t get over the fact that they LOST! I heard one of them say yesterday that in 2010 they will go door to door asking people to be for gay marriage. I dare any of them to come to my door, I’ll tell them to get their freaky asses off of my property


12 posted on 05/27/2009 10:32:55 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: lewisglad
"Drew Barrymore, Kathy Griffin and her mother Maggie Griffin, George Takei and husband Brad Altman, Kelly Osbourne and finance Luke Worrell, Deborah Gibson, Emmy Rossum, Sophia Bush, Perez Hilton and Shanna Moakler."

This is what passes for "celebrities" these days? How mighty Hollywood has fallen.

13 posted on 05/27/2009 10:32:55 AM PDT by mort56 (He who would sacrifice freedom for security deserves neither. - Ben Franklin)
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To: Beaten Valve
I honked and gave them all a nice “thumbs down” on my way home last night...

Outstanding.But I would have used a different finger...and it would have been pointed upward.

14 posted on 05/27/2009 10:33:19 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Christian+Veteran=Terrorist)
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To: lewisglad
I was raised a good Catholic girl and nowhere in church do I remember it ever being an issue for everybody to be treated equally.

Maybe Miss Gibson should have actually read that black paperweight that she was given at her confirmation then. Everyone is equal: sinners in the eyes of the Lord.

15 posted on 05/27/2009 10:33:23 AM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: Owl_Eagle

That has got to be an OLD photo.


16 posted on 05/27/2009 10:33:47 AM PDT by edcoil (IF CA rolls pollution standards back to 1990 levels, lets roll CA spending back as well.)
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To: lewisglad
"I’m so proud of my mom for coming out here. She’s the 89-year-old activist. That last time she marched was against prohibition".

Presuming her grandmother marched in the last year of Prohibition, she would have been 12 or 13, if this claim is true.

Gosh, I've always wondered what sort of families that liberal Hollywood whores sprang from. Now I know.

Did people even march against Prohibition? I thought that they gave passwords through eyeslats to get into underground speakeasys.

17 posted on 05/27/2009 10:33:56 AM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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To: Owl_Eagle

I mean, one looks at Kathy Griffin and can understand why she is a fag-hag. Barrymore too, as I always thought she had a jaw like Sgt Rock.


18 posted on 05/27/2009 10:34:30 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

Were Lorenzo Lamas and Audrina Patridge busy that night?


19 posted on 05/27/2009 10:34:45 AM PDT by lewisglad
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To: lewisglad
“I think they are gonna do the right thing eventually… things like this, people taking it to the streets, this is how change really happens! And I’m so proud to be part of it, and I’m so proud of my mom for coming out here. She’s the 89-year-old activist. That last time she marched was against prohibition, so this is great!”

Translation: "I love mob rule!"

20 posted on 05/27/2009 10:35:06 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte
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To: Owl_Eagle
Shanna Moakler:I most certainly would hit that.

Not for me,thanks! I've never had a penicillin shot and plan to keep it that way.

21 posted on 05/27/2009 10:35:37 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Christian+Veteran=Terrorist)
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To: All

>>...but today I was ashamed of the Supreme Court,” Kathy
>>told Access.

Right now, I’m very proud of the CA Supreme Court. Good job!


22 posted on 05/27/2009 10:37:31 AM PDT by excalibur1701
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To: Sans-Culotte

I have a gay friend who thinks that Prop. 8 itself was an excercise in “mob rule.”


23 posted on 05/27/2009 10:39:16 AM PDT by Tamar1973 (Riding the Korean Wave, one Bae Yong Joon drama at a time!)
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To: lewisglad

George Takei and husband Brad Altman.....

oh....so Takei is on the bottom....glad we cleared that up!


24 posted on 05/27/2009 10:41:53 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: lewisglad
I want my kids to ... be able to get married to whomever they choose to love,”

I love my mother, she (I presume) loves me.

Does Ms. Moakler believe I should be able to marry my mother?

25 posted on 05/27/2009 10:42:02 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Rummyfan
Is she hetero or a lesbo?

I'm not sure, since I'd never heard of her before I saw the headline. Pretty safe bet she's a hetero though.

Lesbians only look like that in the hands of a skilled pornographer.

26 posted on 05/27/2009 10:42:43 AM PDT by Owl_Eagle (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: Gay State Conservative

I think you’d need more than penicillin to recover from that.


27 posted on 05/27/2009 10:42:51 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring

I should be able to marry my mother?

That’s next with being able to marry the family dog.....


28 posted on 05/27/2009 10:43:14 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: lewisglad
"“One of the reasons why [anti-gay marriage groups] latched on to Miss California is because she is young and because they’re losing the youth. And the youth is gonna come of age. They are gonna get to vote and they’re gonna make a difference."

Hence the indoctrination of the little ones in grade school. Indeed, while opposition is 57% according to Gallup, it is "in favor" by that same number for those aged 18-29.

That said, opposition is rising. Methinks it is due to the thuggish behaviour of the Velvet Mafia. Also, African Americans are getting tired of having the gay struggle equated with theirs--and rightly so--and it was their big turnout for 0bama in CA that helped pass Proposition 8 according to some studies.

29 posted on 05/27/2009 10:43:47 AM PDT by eureka! (Elections have consequences, boy howdy. *sigh*)
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To: Gay State Conservative
I've never had a penicillin shot and plan to keep it that way.

I think it might be worth it for the best six seconds of my life.

30 posted on 05/27/2009 10:43:53 AM PDT by Owl_Eagle (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: Sans-Culotte

Someone needs to tell her that we’ll be taking it to the streets on July 4th - and I’m sure more than one sign at a California TEA Party will support Prop 8.

Then Hollyweird can tell us what homophone racists we are.


31 posted on 05/27/2009 10:43:55 AM PDT by Right Cal Gal (Abraham Lincoln would have let Berkeley leave the Union without a fight)
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To: Rummyfan
Is she hetero or a lesbo?

It's said she married a guy; I'm not sure if that's conclusive.

32 posted on 05/27/2009 10:44:07 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Right Cal Gal

hom·o·phone (hm-fn, hm-)
n.
One of two or more words, such as night and knight, that are pronounced the same but differ in meaning, origin, and sometimes spelling.


33 posted on 05/27/2009 10:44:34 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, Bowman later)
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To: Owl_Eagle

LOL! Like Ellen Degeneres or Margaret Cho or Sandra Bernhardt?


34 posted on 05/27/2009 10:44:56 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
and Deborah has done a lot of sinning! (starting with that Playboy shoot!)


35 posted on 05/27/2009 10:44:59 AM PDT by lewisglad
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
Does George pack his lunch for Brad before he leaves for work?
36 posted on 05/27/2009 10:46:24 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: lewisglad
Kelly Osbourne and finance Luke

She brought her "finance". She must be series.

37 posted on 05/27/2009 10:47:03 AM PDT by techcor (I hope Obama succeeds... in becoming a one term president.)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
I should be able to marry my mother? That’s next with being able to marry the family dog.....

Or both at the same time!

38 posted on 05/27/2009 10:47:28 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: lewisglad

“If you love someone you should be able to marry them”. So I guess these perverted people are OK with siblings marrying, polygamy, bestiality, etc? They have perverted the concept of love beyond all recognition. Seeking validation of your degraded bodily urges is not love. It’s just attempting to force society to put a seal of approval upon your degraded wickedness, because the last twinge of conscience you have left won’t let you rest easy about your perversion. There’s a reason for that, and all the forced “validation” gained through judicial blackmail won’t change it.


39 posted on 05/27/2009 10:48:23 AM PDT by mrsmel (Put the Gitmo terrorists near Capitol Hill.)
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To: Owl_Eagle

You’re talking about a woman who looks like she’s being anally penetrated by a toilet! Good luck. I suggest you wrap industrial strength Saran-Wrap around Mr. Wiggly.


40 posted on 05/27/2009 10:48:32 AM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: lewisglad

Hi LG...(waves)...

Now what would the ‘D’ lister do without this little publicity snit? Max out their credit cards for a meal a Koi so they could be ‘seen?’

To quote the great social commentator of our time, Homer Simpson...’duh, celebrities is there nothing they don’t know?’


41 posted on 05/27/2009 10:50:20 AM PDT by PennsylvaniaMom (M. Thatcher, "The trouble with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.")
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To: Owl_Eagle
Time has not been kind to Ms. Moakler.


42 posted on 05/27/2009 10:50:24 AM PDT by lewisglad
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
oh....so Takei is on the bottom....glad we cleared that up!

So, does all that Hope&Change make the pillow taste better, Georgie?

43 posted on 05/27/2009 10:51:02 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (FreepMail me if you want on the Bourbon ping list!)
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To: Rummyfan
Ellen Degeneres or Margaret Cho or Sandra Bernhardt

I guess there's a limit to the skills of any mortal.

44 posted on 05/27/2009 10:52:26 AM PDT by Owl_Eagle (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: Owl_Eagle

You’d probably have to stand in line, I wouldn’t play Russian roulette with my health and life like that. I hear that crabs are mighty uncomfortable. Oops, that was mean of me. But it pales in comparison to these degraded people trying to force their perversion upon society, and particularly other people’s children.


45 posted on 05/27/2009 10:52:30 AM PDT by mrsmel (Put the Gitmo terrorists near Capitol Hill.)
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To: PennsylvaniaMom

I am truly disappointed, not one air brained cast member from ‘The Hills’ present at this rally! (maybe they are off for the summer and not taping...) :)


46 posted on 05/27/2009 10:53:06 AM PDT by lewisglad
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To: lewisglad

Not just time, but her lifestyle.


47 posted on 05/27/2009 10:53:28 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: Owl_Eagle

Gosh, what’d she do to/in the toilet?


48 posted on 05/27/2009 10:54:09 AM PDT by NewHampshireDuo (Earth - Taking care of itself since 4.6 billion BC)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Aren’t they some of the same people who decry Christians going door-to-door to evangelise for their beliefs? For “pushing” their beliefs in others’ faces? I guess it’s not really that the Christians are witnessing, it’s what they’re witnessing about.


49 posted on 05/27/2009 10:55:23 AM PDT by mrsmel (Put the Gitmo terrorists near Capitol Hill.)
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To: Owl_Eagle

beauty is only skin deep

ugly goes straight to the bone.

These illiterati don’t understand that beauty goes from the inside outward. No amount of outward beauty can hide and ugly inside.


50 posted on 05/27/2009 10:56:40 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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