Country Music Star Comes Out in Favor of Gay Rights
NEW YORK, NY – In an interview on the cable television show “CMT Insider” last weekend, country music star Toby Keith spoke out in favor of the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” although he did question the safety of females who are sent to the front lines of battle.
“That whole gay issue thing, that’s never bothered me,” he told CMT Insider correspondent Allison DeMarcus. “I’ve never seen what that affects and [why] anybody should care — and they never do affect me.”
He then continued, “First of all, 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.”
