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.
Stop saying “gay” when you mean “queer”.
Look at Hollywood, the Courts, mainstream media, educational establishments - even in the pulpits of Christian churches and the answer is obvious.
The leftist progressives are well organized and following a deliberate scripted plan to seize control of society from the top down.
Their only main obstruction is Trump - and your guns.
It all started back with “Urban Cowboy”, when people traded their disco suits for Gucci cowboy boots.
It was only a matter of time before the SJW’s and the left came for country music.
Country music has had a target on its back since the Dixie Chicks went full-retard.
They are finally succeeding because the demographic for country fans has shifted dramatically thanks to top 40 radio, Pandora/Spotify/iTunes/Amazon being the biggest peddlers of bubble gum pop music. Millenials are now the biggest consumers of country music.
Problem started slow, a long time ago.
“Oh they say that country music’s gone to town
Farmer John’s done put on the cap and gown
What’s the country boy to do what’s this world a comin’ to
Oh they say that country music’s gone to town”
Give me some good ole BOB WILLS or SPADE COOLEY! Lots of real good old country music in the British Archive of Country Music.
Why is the best source of old American Country Music in Britain?
Beyonce and the Dixie Ditzes? WTF?
What in the Name of Minnie Pearl is Wrong with Country Music?
Simple Answer, they too are part of the “Entertainment Industry”
Same thing that’s wrong with every other aspect of American life, it’s been infested by Liberals.
It’s time that we hear “We Smoke Marijuana in Muskogee” and “I am My Own Grandma.”
Sing it, Huck-man!
Country music has become rock music sung by someone with a southern accent. The art of country left the building a long time ago.
What happened?
It’s called “convergence.”
It’s a process by which the Left will get some of its people into an organisation, who then simultaneously try to open the doors for more leftists to get in, while also agitating for changes that benefit the Left (i.e. liberalisation, go gay, anti-Trump, etc. etc.).
If not stopped at the start, it will result in the organisation abandoning its original mission (in this case, promoting music that rural and suburban conservative white people like), and will adopt a new mission of promoting left-win causes, even if it ends up destroying or severely damaging the organisation.
The gayzos don’t like when people exclude them.
So, what do they do to remedy this?
Exclude Christians, Republicans and/or heterosexuals.
All it took was one activist producer to say mean things about Huckabee, and he backs down and resigns?
Where is his spine? Where is his fortitude to stand up for his principles and fight back?
Each conservative who retreats upon the first hostile engagement only gives up more ground to the Left, and makes things that much harder to stand up to extremists the next time.
-PJ
MURDER ON MUSIC ROW
Nobody saw him running from sixteenth avenue.
They never found the fingerprint or the weapon that was used.
But someone killed country music, cut out its heart and soul.
They got away with murder down on music row.
The almighty dollar and the lust for worldwide fame
Slowly killed tradition and for that someone should hang
(oh, you tell them Alan).
They all say not guilty, but the evidence will show
That murder was committed down on music row.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgiILl_F7O8
I think I see the problem here.
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.
“Monkey Zoo Trick”
And the real irony is that the star of that movie, Jon Voight, is now a very strong outspoken conservative.
You hit it right on the head....
Well said. I think organizations in society are replete with such examples. The Boy Scouts, the military, almost any organization.
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