In a new interview with Attitude magazine, Tori Amos expresses her disappointment at the fact that California voters could, on the very same day, elect our nation’s first African-American president and also deprive a segment of the citizenry the fundamental right to marry. Now, anyone who is even remotely aware of Tori and her politics should not be surprised by this news at all … even still, at a time when our country still has a long way to go in terms of providing marriage equality for all her comments are definitely worth passing along:
Tori Amos has blasted voters who pushed through a gay marriage ban in California – because it goes against the teachings of Martin Luther King, Jr. The God hitmaker, whose father is a Methodist minister, insists outlawing same-sex unions is un-Christian and a breach of civil rights. And she is confused Californian voters passed the Proposition 8 bill – which reversed a previous ruling permitting gay marriage in the state – on the same day Barack Obama was elected U.S. President last year. She tells Attitude magazine, “(I was) extremely disappointed. Well, we go back to this concept of emancipation. The idea of ‘We will overcome’ from the great Dr. Martin Luther King, was made flesh as Obama was put into the office and yet at the same time another group of people were subjugated by some of those voters. “A lot of people were saying, ‘Well you have to understand that a lot of the voters are Democratic and Christians, the ones that had an issue with rights for the gay community’. And I would say how, in any way, is that the Christian path?”
God Bless Tori Amos. I love that the woman never shies away from voicing her opinions. Her point that Christian path is one of love and acceptance is a valid one. There will always be those people who use religion to their own selfish ends … which is sad because those people ruin things for everyone. I’m convinced that marriage equality will be a reality for all in this country some day, hopefully soon. I’m glad to know that the fight for equality for all has an intelligent woman like Tori Amos on its side.
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I always love what she has to say.
I hope that one day we could all congratulate Trent on his marriage!!
Ok… So when Tori voices her opinion in support of gay marriage she is amazing and should be patted on the back but when Miss California voices her opinion she is a bigot and a terrible person. So it isn’t about voicing an opinion, it is about having the correct opinion.
@Heather — when did I ever say Miss California is a bigot and a terrible person? Please show me where I said that.
While I agree that the passage of Prop 8 was a travesty, it annoys me that people continue to confuse the “Christian path” with loving and accepting all forms of whatever the hell we come up with next. Jesus had nothing to say about social issues of his time- he confronted sin as he met it, urging those who he touched to sin no more. Unfortch, he’s not here anymore, so we have to do the best we can with what we’ve got- and since gay marriage is a legal/social issue, we ought to leave it to the legal structures in place to take care of it.
It never ceases to amaze me how in a world filled with so much hate, people will always deny others the right to love. I am thankful that I believe in a loving (not a vengeful) God, and believe that all consenting legal adults should have the right to love and marry whomever they choose. If we are going to not allow same-sex marriage, then divorce between hetero couples should be banned–after all, marriage is sacred, right?
Preach! She gets it. During the election, when I said that I believed Obama was the more Christian of the two candidates, you would not believe the hatred that was thrown at me from the most self-proclaimed “Christian” people. What is Christian and what is not is so misunderstood by perhaps a majority of the population. As a resident of the Bible Belt, I am confronted with and frustrated by this every single day.
She believes in peace, bitch!
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@artgirl774 – i like how you think :-)
hell YES! I love Tori for doing this. :D I love her for daring to confront and challenge so-called “Christians” (better known as “hypocrites”) who preach hate, while claiming that God loves each and every one of us.
Straight couples pose the greatest danger to corrupting marriage – the divorce rate is 50% in our country and even higher among evangelicals according to the Barna Research Group, and among those, Baptists in the Bible Belt were the mostly likely to get divorced. I don’t believe marriage should be governed by the state – so much so, my wife and I opted out of a license and signed a marriage covenant instead. Marriage is a religious institution – why haven’t the church and state people done something about this?
That’s a good point, iamjoeybradley. People in the Bible Belt tend to be less educated and marry earlier, and marry because they feel they must get married, and they therefore have a higher rate of domestic abuse and divorce. In the Islamic world it’s even more of an extreme (except for the divorce because they are not allowed), so the religious fundamentalists are obviously doing something wrong with the institution of marriage in addition to turning people away from their religions with their intolerant views and warped view of Christ’s message.
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