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Toby Keith: “I never saw the reasoning behind getting into people’s personal lives”
Toby Keith and troops - Credit: photonichelle on Flickr
Country artist Toby Keith, who has been politically vocal in the past, mostly conservative, has taken a position when it comes to the DADT repeal and sexual orientation as none of the government's business, and he thinks they should stop wasting time and money on the issue. In a CMT Insider interview he says, "we're going to stop somebody from getting a marriage license because they're gay? You won't stop them from living together, so what have you accomplished? ... Wasting a lot of money here and a lot of time that could be spent working on this deficit that we're under ... I never saw the reasoning behind getting in people's personal lives. ... Somebody's sexual preference is like, 'Who cares?'"
Read the CMT Insider interview here, and the full interview is on CMT.
Country Music Star Chely Wright Weds Partner
Chely Wright (left) and her partner and now wife, Lauren Blitzer
Country music star Chely Wright, who "came out" and revealed to her fans she was a lesbian in 2011, has wedded her partner Lauren Blitzer in Connecticut. Her career suffered as a result of her coming out, and she said in an interview with the LA Times that "[Fans] would rather you were a drug addict than be gay. They will forgive you if you beat your wife, lose your kids to state, get six divorces, make a sex tape, get labeled as a tramp — any and all of it is better than being gay."
She was also in North Carolina on September 13th to battle against proposed legislation that will ban gay marriage, teaming up with Equality North Carolina. The state legislature approved the measure by one vote (30-16) achieving the 3/5 needed, and the proposed amendment will be on the ballot in the May primary. Chely had said the North Carolina's proposed marriage amendment is “not about preserving the sanctity of marriage … Rather, this measure is about tearing down the sanctity of human dignity. It is that full humanity that God places in the gay and lesbian individual as he does us all. And it is the full humanity that he wants us to recognize and embrace rather [than] reject, condemn and demean."
Read more on Equality North Carolina's website, and here is a video statement by Ms. Wright in support of LGBT civil rights:
