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"Brad Pitt has vowed to donate up to $100,000 (\u00C2\u00A362,054) to campaigns attempting to legalise gay marriage in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington. The Moneyball announced his donation to the Human Rights Campaign in a press statement, in which he also urged others to follow his example.  &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s unbelievable to me that people&amp;#039;s lives and relationships are literally being voted on in a matter of days,&amp;quot; Pitt wrote. He continued: &amp;quot;In Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington, voters will go to the polls to decide if gay and lesbian couples - our friends and neighbours - are worthy of the same protections as everyone else. &amp;quot;But that&amp;#039;s the system we have and I&amp;#039;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.&amp;quot; Pitt is asking Human Rights Campaign to donate to the cause and has vowed to double donations up to $100,000.  [Pictured above: Angelina Jolie, Jane Pitt, Brad Pitt] His pledge comes just months after Brad&amp;#039;s mother Jane Pitt allegedly wrote an open letter condemning same-sex marriage, abortion and US President Barack Obama. Brad himself has long been a supporter of same-sex marriage, having teamed with George Clooney in March for a one-night fundraising performance of the play 8. 8 dramatises the struggle by lawyers and activists to have a same-sex marriage ban overturned in California. He also called same-sex unions a &amp;quot;constitutional right&amp;quot; last summer. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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