Posted on 03/06/2018 7:09:43 AM PST by Kaslin
One of country music’s most powerful executives, says gun-toting, Bible-clinging fans like former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee are no longer welcome.
The controversy started when the Country Music Association triggered a massive outbreak of microaggressions after they appointed Huckabee to the board of its charitable foundation.
Huckabee has been a longtime supporter of music education so his appointment to a charitable board that supports music programs for young people was a perfect fit.
However, a mob of social justice warriors, led by openly gay country music executive Jason Owen, protested – calling Huckabee’s appointment “grossly offensive” and “heartbreaking.”
“This man has made it clear that my family is not welcome in his America,” the owner of Sandbox Entertainment wrote in a letter to the CMA. “And the CMA has opened their arms to him, making him feel welcome and relevant.”
Owen, whose roster includes Faith Hill, Little Big Town, Kacey Musgraves and Midland, threatened to pull out of the CMA Foundation over Huckabee’s appointment.
“Huckabee speaks of the sort of things that would suggest my family is morally beneath his and uses language that has a profoundly negative impact upon young people all across this country,” he wrote.
For the record, Huckabee is a born-again, Southern Baptist preacher who follows the teachings of the Holy Bible. And that includes the Bible’s directives on marriage.
Owen also objected to the former governor’s involvement with the National Rifle Association calling it “harmful and damaging.”
“What a shameful choice,” he wrote. “I will not participate in any organization that elevates people like this to positions that amplify their sick voices.”
Less than 24 hours later, Huckabee resigned from the CMA Foundation Board and wrote an open letter to the industry titled “Hate Wins.”
“If the industry doesn’t want people of faith or who hold conservative and traditional political views to buy tickets and music, they should be forthcoming and say it,” Huckabee wrote.
Huckabee said he did not want the controversy to overshadow the good work of the foundation – helping children.
“All of us have deep passions about our beliefs. I do about mine. But I hate no one,” he wrote. “I wish upon NO ONE the loss of life or livelihood because that person sees things differently than me.”
Has it really come to this, America? Must we renounce our religious beliefs and bow down to those who will not tolerate tolerance?
“I hope that the music and entertainment industry will become more tolerant and inclusive and recognize that a true love for kids having access to the arts is more important than a dislike for someone or a group of people because of who they are or what they believe,” Huckabee wrote.
I’d be willing to bet a gallon of sweet tea and a bucket of chicken that a good many country music fans go to church, own a gun and share the same beliefs as Gov. Huckabee.
That’s why there are more country music songs about God and pickup trucks and honky-tonks instead of Chevy Volts and juice bars.
Folks, I’d be lying if I said I was not concerned about Gov. Huckabee’s public flogging. As difficult as it may be we have to ask whether the country music industry has been overrun by a bunch of anti-Christian, gun-hating bullies.
I certainly hope that is not the case, but one thing is mighty clear – we’re not in Hee Haw anymore.
Nothing but steers and queers.
“most small town country people are David Allen Coe’s “poor white trash.”
Seriously, why do you think it’s come to that. I’ve decided to accept the tattoos and piercings if they are good, hard working. They might look back on those body alterations as a mistake.
Are these those on the government dole capable of having a job?
“People engaged in homosexuality as a way of life stake their entire being around their sexual practice. Everything else is secondary, and they hold a deep and bitter hatred of anyone who will not accept the practice of homosexuality.When I learn someone practices homosexuality I then understand their bitterly unbalanced aggressiveness.”
Exactly.
Glad to see he took the high road, after the musician took the low one.
yeah, I listen to country once in awhile, but most of the songs seem to be about promoting alcoholism and the consequences of wearing beer googles. LOL.
There is on offensive song whereby a country girls marries an oil man, who later beats her, who she later kills. Must be some feminist that wrote it, because I can’t help but not feel sorry for some dame that married purely for money, without considering the character of the person whom she married.
I don’t know but like me, my 12 year old girl, just loves music from the 80s. I guess it was just fun and entertaining music. These days it all is just so boring, especially the garbage they call hip hop these days.
IQ wise.... I don't know
Supply and demand of jobs? It is a depressed area.
You drive through some of the little neighborhoods with little 50 year old brick houses. Every block you see a couple of well kept nice little homes among the "poor white trash ones." I think old people generally live in those. What does that say? I don't know.
Our place is out of town... in cattle country where everyone owns a lot of land etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDNFqMDKyt4
Carrie Underwood hit it out of the park with Softly and Tenderly.
Illicit love affairs. parties and drinking have from Jimmie Rodgers always been staples of country music. It’s just that from the earliest country through the ‘50s, country had a lot more western, blues and swing tinge to it.
Even Garth Brooks in the ‘90s would do Night Rider’s Lament with a yodel.
Here’s an idea. Before anyone buys a song or tickets to a concert, write to the artist and ask them to disavow this BS for the CMA...
It might be in Nashville...
....but it’s still real in Western North Carolina
....and I don’t mean Asheville
As did Aerosmith, or at least Steven Tyler did.
Music has become Pedophile Pop. Breathless, orgasmic, little girl sounding technobeats.
HOMOSEXUAL, because there's nothing GAY about it.
They were complaining about that many, many years ago...
In every other song that I've heard lately
some fella gets shot
And his baby and his best friend both die with him
as likely as not
In half of the other songs Some Cat's crying or ready to die
We're losin' most of our happy people And I'm a wonderin' why
Let's think about livin'
Let's think about lovin'
Let's think about the whoopin' and hoppin and boppin'
and the lovie, lovie dovin'
Let's forget about the whinin' and the cryin'
And the shooting and the dying
And the fellow with a switchblade knife
Let's think about livin'
Let's think about life
Just for old time's sake
turn back the hands of time
Pretend that you're still mine,
just for old times sake.
What in the Name of Minnie Pearl is Wrong with Country Music?
Keyboards, no piano. Playing loud all the time. No memorable lyrics. Marble mouth singers.
I like whaling songs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akQ6NgP1avI
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