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.
I hate to tell you this, but before I could watch that wonderful video, I had to sit through an AARP ad, with some thug rapping. I kid you not! I couldn’t do it. Not even for the Possum.
Modern day country music, like all modern day music isn’t music at all...it’s just noise.
Country music...ain’t.
Lost its soul many years ago. Now this Sodomite-smooching country music industry is proud of that fact and shoving it in our faces, like so many other faggot-friendly businesses. F them.
Country music these days is mostly crap. Progressive country has run out of things to sing about and has no tunes to carry. I don’t enjoy a thing about it and said good bye a long time ago.
It looks more like grunge attire to me. I can see that any day under bridges.
Hank Williams is rolling over in his grave at 3500 rpm.
I’ve been waiting for NASCAR to announce the Stay Free Maxipad Minivan Series for some years now.
So is Hank Williams Jr, and he isn't even dead yet.
You saw this shift happening when Taylor Swift continued to be honored in country music despite not making country music anymore.
They were desperate to pull that demographic in.
Why do you think talent shows started getting guys like Luke Bryan and Blake Shelton?
They don’t care about their perspective. They care about their following and know if they can bring that audience to the mainstream, they can brainwash them.
Oddly enough, the guy who blasted Huckabee was (at least at one time) a consultant for the Hank Williams Sr. estate and Johnny Cash Trust.
Stop it! Just stop it!!! Stop saying “gay” when you really mean “homosexual.”
I much prefer the phrase sexual deviant.
Most of today’s country music is really just very bad southern rock
I thought it sounds like old 80’s pop. Especially that last Keith Urban Carrie Underwood song
Question: Where have all the voices gone? Like Eddie Arnold, Johnny Cash and all the others.
Absolutely!
I’ll also add that they want to popularize country music with mainstream audiences so they can force them into conforming with the SJW beliefs.
How many companies, celebrities, politicians do you see having their brands killed by the SJW movement?
Comply or die, is the threat. Most of these country stars don’t believe this bullshit but they know their careers will be defunct if they don’t go along with it.
Country music isn’t country music any more. Hasn’t been for a while.
Urbanized, metrosexual cross-over crap ain’t country.
“I’ve never been a country fan, but I like some individual songs. “Country” music stars today blend nicely with the leftist sewage in other genres. They are sick degenerates who make us long for the guys in bar fights whose dogs and pick-up trucks were their only friends.”
That’s a shameful commentary! I think that most C&W performers are decent people. Most of them stay married to their original spouses and aren’t out bed hopping like most of the rest of the “entertainers” today. The problem is that those who aren’t are the noisy ones. C&W music is the only music that’s truly American.
Yep, I was in a group that produced two Country Gospel albums/cds. Ours were COUNTRY. We sold pretty good in a certain market years ago. Today no one under 60 would buy them :)
About the only thing left reminiscent of the original country sound, is bluegrass. Like Larry Sparks’ group, for instance, his songs, most of which he wrote himself, are old southern ballads, and songs reflecting his deep Christian faith.
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