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Amy Grant on Homophobic Criticism Over Niece's Same-Sex Wedding: 'I Love Those Brides'
People ^ | January 16, 2023 | Brenton Blanchet and Topher Gauk-Roger

Posted on 01/17/2023 3:18:50 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia

Amy Grant loves her family, and she's making that very clear.

The Grammy Award winner, 62, is opening up about her decision to host her niece's same-sex wedding and how she's been navigating the varying feedback that's come as a result.

"I never chase any of those rabbits down the rabbit hole," Grant told PEOPLE of social media responses — both good and bad. "I love my family, I love those brides. They're wonderful, our family is better, and you should be able to be who you are with your family, and be loved by them."

The wedding came to be when Grant offered her farm for the ceremony — the same place where she and husband Vince Gill got married in 2000. Gill and Grant will celebrate 23 years of marriage in March.

"I own a farm that I bought back in the '90s and they were just looking for a beautiful place to get married," she tells PEOPLE at the Music Center in Los Angeles for an event honoring Jerry Moss on Saturday. "So, she and Sam got married on the same hillside where Vince and I got married."

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KEYWORDS: amygrant; lgbt; wedding
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In a Washington Post interview before the family's "first bride and bride" nuptials, Grant opened up about her niece coming out. The interview came before she was celebrated at the 2022 Kennedy Center Honors, alongside names like Gladys Knight, U2 and George Clooney.

"Honestly, from a faith perspective, I do always say, 'Jesus, you just narrowed it down to two things: love God and love each other,'" Grant told the Post. "I mean, hey — that's pretty simple."

1 posted on 01/17/2023 3:18:50 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
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I’m sorry that religion has been so corrupted that she feels that this is a good thing to do. I feel badly for her.


2 posted on 01/17/2023 3:21:29 PM PST by SuzyQue
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

When the gods of the copybook headings return what will you say you silly bitch.


3 posted on 01/17/2023 3:21:40 PM PST by robowombat ( )
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Just another singer that found a side door into the pop music industry. She would be just as happy singing any other genre. Then she starts riding Vince Gill and gets a divorce after three kids.

She’s just another know it all female with an emotion based opinion.


4 posted on 01/17/2023 3:23:10 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: robowombat

“The Signaling of The Virtue”


5 posted on 01/17/2023 3:23:58 PM PST by kiryandil (put yer vote in the box, chump. HARHARHARHAR)
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To: DesertRhino

Vince Gill got to see her O-face...


6 posted on 01/17/2023 3:24:33 PM PST by kiryandil (put yer vote in the box, chump. HARHARHARHAR)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

This breaks natural law AND God’s law.


7 posted on 01/17/2023 3:25:17 PM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Grant went down the hole of paganism disguised as her form of Christianity a long time ago.


8 posted on 01/17/2023 3:28:03 PM PST by Godzilla (Never give up, never surrender . . . . . .)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Shut up and sing.


9 posted on 01/17/2023 3:28:11 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: DesertRhino

Just another singer that found a side door into the pop music industry. She would be just as happy singing any other genre. Then she starts riding Vince Gill and gets a divorce after three kids.

She’s just another know it all female with an emotion based opinion.

actually that is saying she is just another tin pan alley cXXX


10 posted on 01/17/2023 3:31:33 PM PST by robowombat ( )
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Given up to reprobate mind.


11 posted on 01/17/2023 3:33:12 PM PST by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Nobody said you can’t love gays, Amy, but supporting their “marriage” is a whole different kettle of fish.


12 posted on 01/17/2023 3:36:57 PM PST by Prince of Space (Let’s Go, Brandon! )
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Masterpiece Cakeshop owner ……..because of his faith, integrity and determination …….went through years of a horrible ordeal because he would not bow down to the gay community.

And then you have Amy’s Insulting attitude with her platitudes.


13 posted on 01/17/2023 3:37:20 PM PST by Guenevere (“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Phobia, phobic. They keep saying those words. Those words do not mean what they think they mean.


14 posted on 01/17/2023 3:39:24 PM PST by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Phobic is fear. Dislike is not fear.

Homophobic is simply leftist changing of the English language.


15 posted on 01/17/2023 3:41:14 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I can remember in the 70’s when Amy started singing “Christian rock” that she wasn’t what she seemed to be . . . soon after that she was into anything but Christian. I think about all those wannabee Christians that spent tons of money buying her junk and rocking out at her concerts. Suckers!


16 posted on 01/17/2023 3:41:56 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: IYAS9YAS

communists have always been adept at modifying the English language to change the meaning of words to suit their desires. Such as the word ‘gay’.


17 posted on 01/17/2023 3:42:14 PM PST by imabadboy99
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Amy Grant jumped the Christianity shark a long time ago. I blame Peter Cetera.


18 posted on 01/17/2023 3:43:18 PM PST by tnlibertarian
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To: Prince of Space

“Nobody said you can’t love gays, Amy, but supporting their “marriage” is a whole different kettle of fish.”

What people don’t get is that supporting their “marriage” is hate. People have confused giving people whatever they want at the moment with “love”.


19 posted on 01/17/2023 3:46:49 PM PST by Varda
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To: kiryandil

“Vince Gill got to see her O-face...”

Hopefully, she didn’t “do” Lumbergh!


20 posted on 01/17/2023 3:51:06 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (Stupid is supposed to hurt.)
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