Singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge has
described President Barack Obama's gay marriage endorsement as a “big
tipping point.”
The openly gay, 51-year-old Etheridge
appeared Friday on CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight to pitch her
fourteenth studio album 4th
Street Feeling,
which will be released on September 4.
“I do think that was a big tipping point in the movement toward
equality and recognition of diversity,” Etheridge told host Piers
Morgan. “That it is very important to say, 'Oh well, my president
said he's for it.' Actually having [marriage equality] enacted at a
federal level, that's a ways off.”
She
added that anti-gay sentiment in her home state of Kansas was
lessening. (The video is embedded on this page. Visit
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