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.
Starve the cities
Now some left-wingers, with an agenda, are running country music. The right-wingers must conform to the left-wing
ideology, or they will not be welcome at the table.
“...being sung in the same pitch and tenor by a crowd of weeping girly-boys...”
Apt description, and the same with pop music. Today, if you add a whine to that girly-boy pitch and tenor, you will have a hit record with all genres.
Lefties are everywhere
That was “Midnight Cowboy”...
“Urban Cowboy” was John Travolta...
Try some Josh Turner or Trace Adkins
Got dragged to an evening at Grand Ole Opry. Hyperamplified screeching for three full hours and hoping afterward that North Korea never discovers this exquisite means of torture.
Roy Clark has already apologized for his `effeminate poet’ bit in Hee Haw, I am certain. Looks like the Dixie Chicks lost the battle but won the war.
When in Tennessee, I listen only to bluegrass gospel now. Fiddle, banjos, and praising the Lord in words I can understand.
Exactly. Pretty much every single org that didn’t originally start out as a left-wing org and which “drift left” has had this done to it.
It’s not accidental. It’s a purposeful strategy that the Left uses.
“The Left has taken over country music like its taken over everything else.
The writing is on the wall.
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“THEY” have seeped-in everywhere!
Read Tween da lines/Connect Da Dots!
Same Answer: Overwhelm!
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Key: THEY are willing to do whatever it takes!
We:............................. ~~~~~~~
Liberals have been infiltrating Country music for quite some time now. It’s being turned into garbage just as everything else that Liberals contact.
Oops, my mistake. Duh.
Not to mention this person and his daughter as well.
What’s wrong, you ask? What’s wrong is that the overwhelming majority of the American people either agree with Leftist positions or do what Huckabee did. He walked away rather than stay and fight, and no one stood to fight along side of him. The American people have been ceding ground to the Left for over 100 years. We are now at a point where going back is pretty much impossible.
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Just wait till it morphs into country-rap
I all be got homies bitches and hos
In low places and $h*t, y’all check it
Yo grandma got a cap popped in her a$$
By a mot%### f&$^%# reindeer
There was always rot under the foundation. The last scene of the song of Ronnee Blakely’s in NASHVILLE really captures it, with her corn pone persona on a stage with a rogue’s gallery of industry folk and an assassin in the crowd wanting to destroy it all.
Jason Owen is a bigot. Homosexuals are intolerant bullies who insist that everyone must approve of their life style, while they harass those with whom they disagree.
The issue isn’t whether you like country music or not, it’s the deliberate infiltration of every facet of our society. To change it from within.
You are far too polite ... I still use the original term.
If you want to be able to hear a pin drop on a shag carpet, just casually include the word ‘queer’ at the Thanksgiving gathering.
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