Singer Clay Aiken has criticized
Bristol Palin for knocking President Obama's support for gay
marriage.
In a
blog post, titled Hail to the Chiefs – Malia and Sasha
Obama, Palin lashed out at the president for supposedly letting
his daughters influence his views on the subject.
The single mother wrote: “While it's
great to listen to your kids' ideas, there's also a time when dads
simply need to be dads. In this case, it would've been helpful for
him to explain to Malia and Sasha that while her friends parents are
no do
ubt lovely people, that's not a reason
to change thousands of years of thinking about marriage. Or that –
as great as her friends may be – we know that in general kids do
better growing in a mother/father home. Ideally, fathers help shape
their kids' worldview.”
“In this case, it would've been nice
if the President would've been an actual leader and helped shape
their thoughts instead of merely reflecting what many teenagers think
after one too many episodes of Glee.”
Appearing Friday on cabler HLN's
Showbiz Tonight, Aiken, who is currently competing on
Celebrity Apprentice, suggested Palin wasn't qualified to be a
spokesperson for marriage.
“I hardly think Bristol Palin is the
person to be a spokesperson for parenting and marriage,” he said
with a laugh. “And so I don't really have too much a response to
her.”
“Same-sex marriage only affects LGBT
individuals. … Bristol Palin is not affected by whether or not I
want to get married to someone.”
“I completely understand President
Obama's position and how he evolved on it because he didn't want to
have to explain to his kids that certain people aren't afforded the
same rights as everybody else,” he later added.