Melissa Etheridge's wife and other incongruities

I'm afraid I succumbed to temptation and sat through the entire Academy Awards broadcast. I found Ellen DeGeneres to be a pleasant surprise, Al Gore to be as irritating as ever and Melissa Etheridge to be the one to drag everybody in America into her psycho-sexual eccentricity, masquerading as civil rights activism. Her use of the term 'wife' to describe her 'partner' left something behind bigger than her undoubtably diminished carbon footprint. Why does the Hollywood liberal mafia insist on ramming the barrel of its Berkeley pseudo-elitism down our collective throats? And then they go and give her "Best Song"...please......Sorry Randy Newman, you will never be forgiven for "Short People"!!