It's still nearly two months till Christmas, but Brad Pitt is already giving a big gift — $100,000 in matching contributions to the Human Rights Campaign's support of LGBT couples in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington state, where marriage equality measures are on the Nov. 6 ballot.
"It's unbelievable to me that people's lives and relationships are literally being voted on in a matter of days," Pitt wrote in an email to HRC members and supporters. "In Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington, voters will go to the polls to decide if gay and lesbian couples – our friends and neighbors – are worthy of the same protections as everyone else.
"But that's the system we have and I'm not going to back down from the fight for loving and committed couples to have the ability to marry. Especially when groups like the Human Rights Campaign are fighting these battles day-in and day-out.
"So, here's what I'm going to do. If you make a contribution to these ballot measure campaigns in the next 24 hours, I'll double it – every dollar of the way, up to $100,000."
A longtime proponent of gay marriage, Pitt famously told Esquire in 2006 that he and Angelina Jolie would "consider tying the knot when everyone else in the country who wants to be married is legally able."
"It's unbelievable to me that people's lives and relationships are literally being voted on in a matter of days," Pitt wrote in an email to HRC members and supporters. "In Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington, voters will go to the polls to decide if gay and lesbian couples – our friends and neighbors – are worthy of the same protections as everyone else.
"But that's the system we have and I'm not going to back down from the fight for loving and committed couples to have the ability to marry. Especially when groups like the Human Rights Campaign are fighting these battles day-in and day-out.
"So, here's what I'm going to do. If you make a contribution to these ballot measure campaigns in the next 24 hours, I'll double it – every dollar of the way, up to $100,000."
A longtime proponent of gay marriage, Pitt famously told Esquire in 2006 that he and Angelina Jolie would "consider tying the knot when everyone else in the country who wants to be married is legally able."
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