Posted on 10/24/2014 9:36:26 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
This year marks the 50th Anniversary since 68-year-old international icon Dolly Parton came to Nashville. The fourth of 12 siblings who shared a one-room cabin, the East Tennessee native was so poor growing up that her father paid the doctor who delivered her with a bag of cornmeal. The day after her high school graduation, Parton left the Smoky Mountains for Music City, where she shepherded her career from singing on The Porter Wagoner Show, a syndicated music-variety series that aired from 1960 to 1981, to winning seven Grammys and scoring 25 No. 1 songs on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart -- a record for a female artist.
Dolly Parton: The Billboard Photo Shoot
On a recent fall afternoon at Nashville's NorthStar Studios, Parton is an animated conversationalist, throwing her head back and laughing often. In person, the legendary entertainer possesses a down-home, self-effacing charm -- disarming for someone who helms an empire that includes the Pigeon Forge, Tenn.-based Dollywood theme park, which annually hosts nearly 2.5 million visitors, and a valuable publishing catalog of such songs as "Jolene" and "I Will Always Love You," which she took to No. 1 long before Whitney Houston. In 2014 alone, Parton's 42nd studio album, Blue Smoke, debuted at No. 2 on Top Country Albums and No. 6 on the Billboard 200 -- marking her highest-charting solo album on the latter list -- and wrapped a successful world tour that included performing for 170,000 at the United Kingdom's Glastonbury Festival.
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And, we can turn that around - the sodomites pass judgment on others who don’t accept their lifestyle. I understand her theme park is for everyone and that’s as it should be. However, why do these perverts have to have special treatment just because they want to have perverted sex? It has nothing to do with love, but lust. People have the wrong idea about love too. It isn’t love to not tell people the truth about God’s Word to save their souls from hell. Love wants all to accept the forgiveness that Christ extends - it’s hate to not warn others about their eternal destiny if they reject God’s plan of salvation. So once again, everyting is topsy turvy - good is called evil and evil is called good. As for perverts - I like the song Tina Turner sang - “What’s love got to do with it?” There is nothing loving about sodomy- it’s a twisted form of what they think love is.
Dolly is’t exactly in a position to be advising anyone on sexual matters be it gays or otherwise. She’s a Hollywood entertainer with a closet full of the same sordid junk the rest of Hollywood has.
NKP_Vet, when I said “Whatever”, I meant that to Dolly NOT you. And I meant Dolly just seems to be just another out-of-touch Star, Country or Hollywood, in this case it doesn’t matter.
Then you shouldn’t be too upset when Dolly’s chorus boys, the Vols, give your Alabamans a surprise reach-around in Knoxville tomorrow.
I always wondered if Dolly’s social and political outlook would have been different if she had stayed in Nashville, rather than straying to Hollywood.
You don’t see the similarity between her big hair days and the average granny?
Then you shouldnt be too upset when Dollys chorus boys, the Vols, give your Alabamans a surprise reach-around in Knoxville tomorrow.
What happens in Knoxville stays in Knoxville.
Nope, sorry I miss your point.
My phone autocorrected granny.
It should have said tranny.
You are suspecting that she is tranny?
She falsely accuses Christians of judging people, when she knows full well that Christians recognize sin, and leave judging people up to God. Yet she doesn’t say a word about muslims, who torture and kill people for homosexual acts.
No. But the trannies have modeled themselves after her.
It pretty much happens with any woman performer, after a certain amount of time, the only fans left are gay men. See Babs, Cher, Madonna, Cindi Lauper, Lady Gaga, etc.....
I don’t know....her marriage has always been an open marriage so I doubt Hollywood would have caused much a problem.
She seems to be a caring individual and well liked....but as the saying goes, nobody knows what goes on behind closed doors.
IMO anybody in Hollywood will be affected to some degree...it’s the neighborhood.
Now you’re begging the question as to what your definition of “very conservative” is.
There is a difference between judgement and recognizing.
I have no power to make a holy judgement, doesn’t stop me from disciplining.
That is a very good point in post 36.
Dolly Parton lost a Dolly Parton look-alike contest to a bunch of drag queens.
Now youre begging the question as to what your definition of very conservative is.
Good question. The two guys I am talking about certainly isn’t the norm. I don’t agree with a homosexual lifestyle. Other than that one issue, these guys are very conservative. I am told there are many gays in the south that don’t like Obama.
I don’t believe being gay is conservative but they can still be politically conservative.
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