"If they don't want me to get 'married,' if that's bugging 'them' -- fine. But I do believe that as an American citizen, a law-abiding, taxpaying -- major taxpaying -- citizen, that I should be allowed the same rights, the same pursuit of happiness that every other citizen enjoys. ... Whatever they want to call it. As long as we have the same legal benefits and protections for me, and for my family. That's all."
--Lesbian rocker Melissa Etheridge to Newsweek.