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 was thinking the same thing. Every singer sounds like a whiney girly man these days.
Even Bon Jovi went “Country”.
I was thinking the same thing. Every singer sounds like a whiney girly man these days.
To my ear, it sounds like rap, with a fake southern accent.
The show Nashville is political correct. Was it ABC that had Nashville on its show lineup? It was dropped and picked up by another station, I think CMT. The Nashville show displayed a lot of left leaning stuff, which goes on in country music today. Little Jimmy Dickens would probably be upset, about what has happened in Nashville.
Better back in those days, lol.
The Gay mafia has overplayed their hand.
There will be a backlash that will make them run for their closets..................again................
Most of it is just adult contemporary with an accent and a hat.
Country has become the NFL of music.
I blame the Dixie Chix.
So you better be sure and listen close the first time!
The same public school system that gave us tide pod eaters, snowflakes, sanctuary everything, safe rooms and the like .... exist in Tennessee and Georgia, and Alabama and Texas and .....
Them bad boy Outlaws and Lynyrd Skynyrds have all been castrated at birth and are the same pansy asses we see in American youth culture now.
ONE (of many) very important affects of President Trump is the confidence to rear children properly by parents that heretofore were intimidated by the gummint and public school thought police that they had no right to discipline their own children.
Wait'll the public school system wakes up and discovers we no longer NEED them because they promoted drone, electronic teachers and teaching methodry so well, we can educate through COLLEGE now via youtube !
They started it.
What happened? There ain’t no Hillbillys no more.
For old time sake.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VExw77xJsBQ
“Hick Hop” hardly listen to it, used to enjoy both kinds of music “Country” & “Western”
This is what’s wrong in a nutshell...
Six Song Mashup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY8SwIvxj8o
“Bro Country” more like, “Fag Country”
It sounds to me like all genres of popular music sound more and more alike over time. I don’t know if the culture is becoming more homogeneous or what. Some of the stuff I hear on the radio doesn’t even have a melody. Now I don’t know how you can have a pop song without a melody, but they’re sure doing it.
What has happened to Sports, Movies, Music, and Politics.
The cities are dictating extreme leftist opinions and people who live in the country cannot relate. There are two worlds.
There are the grassroots, patriots, farmers, workers who turn on the tube and cannot understand what they watch. There are
the extreme left, who try to dictate crazy outlandish lifestyles. People living in the country cannot relate.
Most of those previous country artists were Roosevelt Democrats, and their followers went farther Left with the rest of Democrats.
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