Melissa Etheridge  Melissa Etheridge is putting her (tax) money
where her mouth is.  Responding defiantly to the passage of
California's Proposition 8, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter
suggested in a blog post on The Daily Beast that she will not
pay her state taxes in protest of the gay-marriage ban, People
reports.  Etheridge writes that if she's not "allowed the same
right [to marry] under the state constitution as any other
citizen ... I am taking that to mean I do not have to pay my
state taxes, because I am not a full citizen."  Etheridge
announced in October that she and longtime partner Tammy Lynn
Michaels intended to legally marry after a California Supreme
Court decision allowed for same-sex marriage. (The couple
exchanged vows at a commitment ceremony in Malibu in 2003.) As
such, she joined celebs like Brad Pitt, Ellen DeGeneres and Mary
J. Blige in opposing the constitutional amendment to overturn
the court's ruling.  Now that the amendment has passed,
Etheridge may have missed her chance, and