I used to love to hear Streisand sing too. I knew she held different political views from my own. I bought her music and watched her movies UNTIL she made her political views her priority and used her celebrity to bash those who hold views different from her own. Paying to see her, or to listen to her, then became a matter of helping to support her political views. I refused to do that. After a short period of time I became so disgusted with her that her music and her movies disgusted me, so I never listen to the ones I had purchased.
The Chicks deliberately used their celebrity to bash the POTUS on foreign soil in a time of war. They are attempting to use their "popularity" as a wedge to cause disunity, and opposition to this President, and to his Party. They have made their political views the issue. It's no longer about their music. It was never about denying them free speech and, if the subtleties need to be explained to them, they'll just have to suffer the consequences until they can figure it out.
In the meantime, they'll have to depend on those who support their views to write their paychecks, along with the occasional "lover of the music", like yourself, who can ignore the fact that the money spent buying that music is used to help destroy the defenders of their own political views.
Hey, how wide is that paintbrush, anyway? So even tho I love Bush, respect the military and think we are doing a great job in Iraq, I'm helping to destroy the defenders of my views?
Wow, first I find out there's no Easter Bunny, then I find I'm a traitor. Whatta Monday!