Country superstar Carrie Underwood has spoken up in support of gay marriage.
“As a married person myself, I don’t know what it’s like to be told I can’t marry somebody I love, and want to marry. I can’t imagine how that must feel,” Underwood says. “I definitely think we should all have the right to love, and love publicly, the people that we want to love.”
Underwood admits she and her hockey-star hubbie Mike Fisher attend a gay-friendly church in Nashville, and that she believes two adults who love each other should be able to do so no matter what their sexual preference. The singer expressed her opinion in an interview with the British newspaper The Independent.
“Above all, God wanted us to love others,” she adds. “It’s not about setting rules, or ‘everyone has to be like me’. No. We’re all different. That’s what makes us special. We have to love each other and get on with each other.”
Underwood and Fisher are devoted Christians. The ‘Jesus Take the Wheel’ singer grew up Baptist, but her current church is inter-denominational.
Recently, country star Chely Wright said she was hoping for a country music star to step up and support her decision to come out and to support gay marriage. “I need a country artist who is a big deal, like Jay-Z in his community — he came forward and said, ‘I believe in equality for all,’” Wright told CBS’s ‘This Morning.’
It looks like Underwood has answered that call.
