Celebrity reading of Prop 8 play to be broadcast on YouTube

Actors Brad Pitt and George Clooney attend the 17th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards held at The Hollywood Palladium on Jan. 12, 2012, in Los Angeles.

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(CBS News) A celebrity reading of  "8," a play that follows the legal fight to overturn Proposition 8, the California law that outlawed gay marriage, will be broadcast on YouTube at 7:45 p.m. PT on March 3. 

Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Martin Sheen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Bacon, Jane Lynch and others will read the play, written by the Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, according to Entertainment Weekly.

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Pitt will play the United States District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker, who found Prop 8 unconstitutional after presiding over the trial.

The other stars who will participate in the reading are: Christine Lahti, Matthew Morrison, Matt Bomer, John C. Reilly, Campbell Brown, Chris Colfer, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Cleve Jones, Rory O'Malley, George Takei, Yeardley Smith, Vanessa Garcia, Jansen Panatierre, James Pickens, Jr., and Bridger Zadina.

The show premiered on Broadway in September with  a cast that included Morgan Freeman, John Lithgow and Ellen Barkin. Now, the show is set to tour nationally through 2012. The stars from the reading are not expected to tour with the show, according to EW.

[Christians2012]

Yes. We live in the wonderful USA with all of our freedoms....GLAAD and all. However, as a Christian these actors should stick to what they do best ACTING... Marriage is sacred and as God said *between a MAN and WOMAN. I do not believe in any other type of marriage!!! Most people don.t either. They are just tired of the bickering and are approving of this type of marriage in some states. God Bless these states, in the end we all have to answer to ONLY One judge. GOD

[billholahan]

This "play" is merely a word-for-word trascription of a second court debate wherein a court declared the Prop 8 ban against gay people to be unconstitutional, and upheld the first court's ruling of the unconstitutionality of Prop 8. Everyone who has a beef against gay people ought to watch the video and learn something.