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Coming up this evening at 9 p.m., Piers Morgan welcomes rock singer and songwriter Melissa Etheridge for a candid and revealing conversation on love and music, as well as politics and activism.
Nearly two decades since officially coming out, the 51-year-old has been an iconic leader in the gay and lesbian community and admits to being encouraged by recent progress, though she wishes things were on a faster track:
"I was hoping in 10 years it would all be - we’d all feel comfortable about it," she tells the "Piers Morgan Tonight" host. "But this deep-seated fear that comes, you know, religion and all kinds of things involved. So this change, this change of paradigm of understanding, love, relationship, family, society, takes time. Are we moving in that direction? Absolutely."
A two-time Grammy award winner, the 51-year-old says that despite recent support from Barack Obama, the movement towards total equality still has a few hurdles to clear before it's enacted on the federal level. In the meantime, Etheridge takes issue with terminology:
"Tolerance, you know, I don’t even like to use the word tolerance ... because it sounds like, you know, I’m doing something that you have to tolerate," she suggests. Instead, the woman behind such classic hits as "Come to My Window" and "I'm the Only One" points to a handful of other options:
"Diversity, recognizing that there is no us and them, that everybody - you can divide us up any way between anything, sexually, color, religion, we’re all different."
Watch the clip, and listen to the interview, then tune in this evening at 9 p.m. as Etheridge talks politics and reviews performing at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, CO.
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Slowly America is making an effort in accepting that love is love. No one can control who they have their hearts set out on, but it is our duty as human beings to respect one another. I'm a supporter, 100% and beyond for LGBT equality. <3
OK, Maybe I can see your point, The next time some gay comes up to me and say's he has a "HEART " for me,
I will just say: NO THANKS. If he keeps insisting, I will just say NO again. NO means No. If he keeps insisting, He will get a bat upside the haid. My defense? He was attempting to give me AIDS and I was just "Standing" my ground.
Oh good grief!!!! Give you AIDS!!! I suppose if a woman does it to you will say she is trying to give you CLAP???
Stop hanging out in gay clubs and they won't hit on you.
Please get all your facts straight before condeming Joe Paterno. How do you know that Joe had anything to do with a cover up? All the media including you have run with the hysteria to sell your information. Shame on you and for not providing all the facts! You should be ashamed and so should ESPN -you guys just love sensationalism.
How can you be so left wing as a someone from Great Britain? Quiet being so Left wing pro-tell the real and factually true stories-and not your personal opinion- GO RUIN SOMEONE ELSE'S HOME TOWN. GO BACK TO LONDON!!!! SHAME ON YOU!!!!!!
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Morgan is like that pitiful left wing Obama boot polisher Blitzer. Watching either one is like watching paint dry...Boring! Morgan please go back to England and that that clown with you... My neighbor had it right, CNN is so left wing anymore they can't give you the facts about anything,they are just a constant free liberal commercial for the Democrat Party. Its a shame citizens can't get the facts from the media without the lies and untruths.
Perhaps it all is a matter of semantics and syntax. Intolerance is based on word association. A black person driving by listening to hip hop creates an entirely different perceptual context than a black person driving by listening to classical music.
I think it's kind of sad that an article about the very important subject of equal rights can just escape its readers and they insist on obsessing over right-wing vs. left-wing. Personally, I agree that LGBT rights should be on a faster track. What does it matter who you fall in love with?
I think it's great that the Tea Party finally has a transgendered leader, Scottie Hughes. I don't believe in any of his/her views but good to see the Tea Party accepting others.