{"id":2444847,"date":"2019-06-01T07:05:36","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T13:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=843155"},"modified":"2019-06-01T07:05:36","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T13:05:36","slug":"taylor-swift-urges-senate-to-pass-equality-act-in-letter-to-tennessee-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/taylor-swift-urges-senate-to-pass-equality-act-in-letter-to-tennessee-senator\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Urges Senate to Pass Equality Act in Letter to Tennessee Senator"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Taylor Swift<\/a> penned a letter to Republican senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee to ask for his support in passing the Equality Act when the bill reaches the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn excellent recent news, the House has passed the Equality Act, which would protect LGBTQ people from discrimination in their places of work, homes, schools, and other public accommodations,\u201d Swift wrote to fans in the Instagram caption<\/a> that accompanied the letter to Alexander.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe next step is that the bill will go before the Senate. I\u2019ve decided to kick off Pride Month by writing a letter to one of my senators to explain how strongly I feel that the Equality Act should be passed. I urge you to write to your senators too.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the letter to Alexander, Swift first praised the senator for co-sponsoring a resolution that would celebrate the centennial of the 19th Amendment \u2013 which gave women the right to vote \u2013 before warning that Tennessee\u2019s anti-LGBTQ \u201cSlate of Hate\u201d would continue to scare off major corporations like Amazon, Nike and more.<\/p>\n

\u201cI personally reject the President\u2019s stance that his administration \u2018supports equal treatment of all\u2019 but that the Equality Act \u2018in its current form is filled with poison pills that threaten to undermine parental and conscience rights.\u2019 No,\u201d Swift wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne cannot take the position that one supports a community while condemning it in the next breath as going against \u2018conscience\u2019 or \u2018parental rights.\u2019 That statement implies that there is something wrong with being anything other than heterosexual and cisgender, which is an incredibly harmful message to send to a nation full of healthy and loving families with same-sex, non binary or transgender parents, sons or daughters.\u201d<\/p>\n

Swift added in her Instagram caption, \u201cWhile there\u2019s no information yet as to when the Equality Act will go before the Senate for a vote, we do know this: Politicians need votes to stay in office. Votes come from the people. Pressure from massive amounts of people is a major way to push politicians towards positive change. That\u2019s why I\u2019ve created a petition at change.org<\/a> to urge the Senate to support the Equality Act.\u201d Swift also launched the hashtag #lettertomysenator, which the singer pledged to monitor.<\/p>\n

Swift\u2019s letter to Alexander arrives as Pride Month begins June 1st. While Swift stayed apolitical for the majority of her music career to the point of criticism (and speculation<\/a>), the singer has become more politically active in recent years, including endorsing<\/a> Democratic candidate Phil Bredesen\u2019s Senate run in 2018; Bredesen ultimately lost to Republican Marsha Blackburn. In April, Swift donated<\/a> $113,000 to a Tennessee LGBTQ advocacy group.<\/p>\n

Swift continued, \u201cOur country\u2019s lack of protection for its own citizens ensures that LGBTQ people must live in fear that their lives could be turned upside down by an employer or landlord who is homophobic or transphobic. The fact that, legally, some people are completely at the mercy of the hatred and bigotry of others is disgusting and unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alexander has not yet responded to Swift\u2019s letter.<\/p>\n

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?HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!!!? While we have so much to celebrate, we also have a great distance to go before everyone in this country is truly treated equally. In excellent recent news, the House has passed the Equality Act, which would protect LGBTQ people from discrimination in their places of work, homes, schools, and other public accommodations. The next step is that the bill will go before the Senate. I\u2019ve decided to kick off Pride Month by writing a letter to one of my senators to explain how strongly I feel that the Equality Act should be passed. I urge you to write to your senators too. I\u2019ll be looking for your letters by searching the hashtag #lettertomysenator. While there\u2019s no information yet as to when the Equality Act will go before the Senate for a vote, we do know this: Politicians need votes to stay in office. Votes come from the people. Pressure from massive amounts of people is a major way to push politicians towards positive change. That\u2019s why I\u2019ve created a petition at change.org to urge the Senate to support the Equality Act. Our country\u2019s lack of protection for its own citizens ensures that LGBTQ people must live in fear that their lives could be turned upside down by an employer or landlord who is homophobic or transphobic. The fact that, legally, some people are completely at the mercy of the hatred and bigotry of others is disgusting and unacceptable. Let\u2019s show our pride by demanding that, on a national level, our laws truly treat all of our citizens equally. ????????????? Click the link in my bio to sign the petition for Senate support of the Equality Act.<\/a><\/p>\n

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