Steven Spielberg and his wife are the latest celebrity donors to the fight against California’s November ballot initiative that would ban same-sex marriage. Spielberg and his wife, Kate Capshaw, have donated $100,000 to fight the initiative, called 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 state Supreme Court decision that made the state only the second in the United States to legalize same-sex marriage. Actor Brad Pitt gave the same amount to the cause last week.

















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