Dolly Parton on LGBTQ+ acceptance
🇺🇸🏳️🌈 | DOLLY PARTON (1946-2026): Dolly Parton defending the LGBTQ+ community from attacks 10 years ago: 'I don't think we should criticize and judge other people. We are all children of God. We are who we are. I just think we should be more loving, more compassionate, we are who we are. If you're gay, you're gay. If you're heterosexual, you're heterosexual and you should be able to be who you are.'
Transcript (en)
Didn't you recently, though, throw support to the LGBT community? Oh, I'm always encouraged. I'm not encouraged. They've made me the poster child, I think, only because I'm so outspoken as far as just being accepting of people in general. I do not believe that we should criticize and judge other people. I think we should be accepting and loving. We are all God's children. We are who we are, and we should be allowed to be who we are. Did any of the faith-based communities that deeply believe the other way take umbrage with you? Oh, absolutely. They did? Oh, yes. I get it all the time. I keep saying, well, if you're the fine Christian that you think you are, why are you judging people? Why are you? That's God's job. We're not God. We're not judges. You know, we're supposed to love one another. We're supposed to not judge. And we're not supposed to take vengeance on other people. That's God's job. So I got too much to do on my own, try to do God's work, too. I mean, not to, you know, to get into trying to do all that. So, yeah, I have to suffer for everything I do. I'm not out to make any, you know, I just think that we should be more loving, more caring. We are who we are. If you're gay, you're gay. If you're straight, you're straight. And you should be allowed to be, you know, how how you are and who you are.
