At the start of her “Here and Now” stand up DVD Ellen says “That’s my one obligatory gay reference. I have to say something gay, otherwise some people might leave here tonight going ‘She didn’t do anything gay. She’s not our leader. What happened to our leader?!’”  The thing is, there are times when she really does lead the way and she’s done it again by not only makng a TV ad asking Californians to vote against Proposition 8 but she has also bankrolled it by pledging $100K in airtime.

You can see it on youTube here, it seems that over 80,000 people have already, let’s hope they get the message.

Not only that but she has also gone on the Tonight Show to bring the “No Campaign” to the forefront, see here.

I saw when she had McCain on her own talk show, she brought up the marraige issue without ever bullying him or seeming disrespectful to his right to his opinion, I thought she did it very well.

So here’s hoping people “vote no on 8″ and that the right to marry is protected in California.

What do you think of people in the media using their own money to put forward their personal political views?  Should more people do it?  Let us know what you think!

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