Toby Keith says he's okay with gay
marriage and the lifting of “Don't Ask, Don't Tell.”
The 50-year-old country music
singer-songwriter talked about gay rights on Saturday's episode of
CMT Insider.
“That whole gay issue thing, that's
never bothered me,” Keith said. “I've never seen what that
affects and [why] anybody should care – and they never do affect
me.”
“First of all, we're going to stop
somebody from getting a marriage license because they're gay? You
won't stop them from living together, so what have you accomplished?
… Wasting a lot of money here and a lot of time that could be spent
working on this deficit that we're under. … I never saw that
reasoning behind getting in people's personal lives.”
“But the military is a tough thing,”
Keith said. “I don't worry as much about the heterosexual people
fighting as I do … about the gays. In the military or any class in
life, you have people who have problems with it, and I'm wondering
how that's going to be compatible on the battlefield. That's the
only question I have, other than that I don't care.”
“Somebody's sexual preference is
like, 'Who cares?'” the Courtesy of the Red, White & Blue
singer added.