Move over Sarah Palin, there's a new mama grizzly in town, and she has way better style than you!

Cher has come out swinging against critics, defending her son, Chaz Bono, for becoming a contestant on the new season of Dancing With the Stars, slamming "bigots" who are attacking him.

"Lovelies!" Cher wrote on Twitter "Chaz is Being Viciously Attacked on Blogs & Message boards about being on DWTS! This is Still America right? It took guts 2 do it."

Elizabeth Taylor’s close friend and personal assistant Sally Morrison has told RadarOnline.com: “I hope the Westboro Baptist Church does not picket her funeral.”

The controversial ant-gay Baptist church had intimated after the screen legend’s passing that they would target her funeral because of her work with HIV/AIDS patients.

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