They’re bringing out the big guns to bring back conservative support for the Ukraine war.

On Friday, the country music singer Brad Paisley, famous for the song “Whiskey Lullaby” (which is apparently about killing yourself with a whiskey bottle), released a song featuring Vologomodomorogor (NOT Vladimir!) Zelensky.

The song is about how all across the world people are the same. The last verses of the song are about how Ukrainians also feel love, drink beer, and watch sports. Paisley then plays a recording of a phone call he had with Zelensky – because, as we know, the only thing this guy does is hang out in sweatsuits fraternizing with celebrities.

The singer, who is believed to be gay and rumored to guzzle cock like mouthwash, refers to Zelensky as “a friend across the ocean.”

Here’s the song.

This is obviously a really aggressive and shameless attempt by Brad’s Jew producers – upon whose circumcised cocks he doth suckle – to get American conservatives back supporting the war after support has largely disappeared.

Just a quickie on the Jew producers here for you:

We have a saying around these parts: “every. single. time.”

American conservatives are fat retards, and many are themselves indeed gay retards, and they will do whatever the media says initially. These mumbling morons believed in the virus hoax in 2020. However, to their credit, unlike the women in the Democrat Party, conservatives do eventually say “aw shucks, it looks like they got me again!”

I just can’t even imagine being tricked over and over again like this and not figuring it out eventually, but it is what it is.

Anyway, they finally figured out the Ukraine war was yet another Democrat hoax, and support has plummeted. This means, among other things, that their farm boys are not signing up for the military.

Southerners and conservatives more generally were the driving force behind the support for the wars with the Moslems, and the Jews are no doubt very frustrated that they’re not getting on board with this latest war, like “my goyim, my goyim – why my sweet best goyim???”

Country music was a big part of keeping the energy up for the Moslem wars.

You all know I love that song “Brought to You Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue,” and wish Toby Keith would do a remix of it about the Chinese balloon.

That song is just too much, man. These Jews just totally sucked dry the American patriotic spirit, and it simply does not exist anymore.

White women are all very stupid and fat whores, but without patriotism having become “let’s go slaughter the enemies of Israel randomly,” there is no way they would be able to get away with this shit:

Women are really the only ones supporting this globalist agenda.

The few men who support it (less than 10% of standard American men) are simply acting out the will of their mommies.

You can’t have freedom and feminism. You have to pick one. pic.twitter.com/Qm8ibrvZBe

— Andrew Anglin (@WorldWarWang) February 26, 2023

Jews take good things and pervert them into something sick and wrong, then they use the fact that they’ve made these things sick and wrong to replace them with something even worse.

Rinse.

Repeat.

Frankly, one reason so many people in Washington are trying to switch the war to China is that they can get all this conservative support back. Russia is sort of sympathetic – they are white, Christian, and have a masculine leader. The communism thing is too long ago for anyone to really remember.

I don’t think saccharine nu country songs about how people in the Ukraine like to watch sports and drink beer is really going to cut it.

If you start a war with China, you can easily suck Russia into it, which is obviously the plan. Russia has to support China because Russia can’t exist without China.

In this sense, China is quite literally the protector of Christendom.

Huffington Post isn’t afraid to ask the serious questions

Black people may have misunderstood the meaning of the word “hoedown.”

The College Fix:

Three universities are under scrutiny for their “Diversity and Inclusion Fellowship” with the Country Music Association due to its exclusion of white applicants.

The fellowship at the University of Tennessee, University of Alabama and Belmont University drew a federal racial discrimination complaint under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.

University of Michigan-Flint professor emeritus Mark Perry filed the complaint with the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights and shared a copy with The College Fix.

Perry told The Fix via email that these three schools “are actively violating their legal obligation to enforce Title VI.”

“In violation of Title VI, non-BIPOC students are illegally excluded from this program and discriminated against on the basis of their race, color, or national origin,” Perry wrote in his official complaint.

Perry shared the complaint with the presidents of the three universities, hoping they will amend their program to include all students before the February 24 application deadline.

He told the university leaders that once Perry’s complaint is acknowledged and evaluated by the OCR, he is confident the government agency will side with him. This is based on his past success filing “740 Title VI and Title IX [sex discrimination] complaints,” he said.

In his email to the three universities, Perry encouraged them to have their legal teams “conduct an internal legal review of the BIPOC-only Fellowship program” to prevent further discrimination.

The Fix emailed the three universities’ media teams twice in the past week and asked whether their attorneys had reviewed the program and if they had any comment, but none responded.

The music industry group did not respond to a January 24 College Fix request for comment on the legality of its fellowship.

Since CMA does not receive federal aid, it is not under the authority of the OCR and “could operate the BIPOC-only, no whites allowed ‘Diversity & Inclusion Fellowship’ without raising any legal issues of race-based discrimination,” Perry told The Fix.

However, since the three universities not only partner but also participate in the program and selection process, they violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.

“It is a clear violation of Title VI that these three universities are illegally excluding and discriminating against certain students (white or non-BIPOCs) and denying them educational opportunities on the basis of their sex and gender identity that are being offered exclusively to BIPOC students,” Perry told The Fix.

Remember: this doesn’t mean anything at all.

They’re not actually trying to be fair.

At least he died with a manly beard

This is very normal.

It’s just like the 1990s.

Everyone was dropping dead for no reason in the 1990s.

Breitbart:

Up-and-coming country singer star Jake Flint died hours after his marriage this past Saturday at the age of 37.

Flint, whose career kickstarted in 2018 when he won breakout artist of the year at the We Are Tulsa Music Awards, reportedly died in his sleep following the wedding for reasons that have yet-to-be-revealed.

In a statement to The Oklahoman, Flint’s longtime publicist, Clif Doyal, confirmed his passing.

“He was not only a client, he was a dear friend and just a super nice guy,” Doyal told the outlet. “As you can see from the outpouring on social media, he was loved by everybody. I think a lot of it was just that he was a people person, and he had an amazing sense of humor. He made everybody laugh, and he made everybody feel welcome.”

“He was an ambassador for Oklahoma Red Dirt music,” Doyal added.

Flint’s widow, Brenda Flint, reflected on her grief in a Facebook post on Tuesday, sharing that her “heart is gone” due to his sudden death.

Vaxed to the max indeed

“We should be going through wedding photos but instead I have to pick out clothes to bury my husband in. People aren’t meant to feel this much pain. My heart is gone and I just really need him to come back. I can’t take much more. I need him here,” she wrote.

Likewise, Flint’s former manager, Brend Cline, said she “loved him much like a son.”

Here’s the thing: if this many celebrities are dying from this vax, how many normal people have died from it?

No one has any idea. But it sure must be a lot.

So anybody who does that was vaxxed is automatically killed by the vaccine. No evidence or basis in reality needed. Got it.

— Paul (@Missthenette) December 1, 2022

The rules are: say the n-word, pay the n-word.

Pay them half a million dollars.

In cash.

Breitbart:

Country star Morgan Wallen has completed his $500,000 donation pledge to black-led groups, which he made in the wake of scandal over his use of a racial slur.

Wallen donated the remaining $100,000 of his $500,000 promise to the National Museum of African American Music in Nashville, the country star’s manager Seth England told Fox News Digital.

The singer has also donated $300,000 to the Black Music Action Coalition (BMAC), and another $100,000 to Rock Against Racism via Big Loud Records, the outlet reported. BMAC has reportedly redistributed $135,000 of the $300,000 to other organizations.

Wallen has been under attack since last February, after a video was published showing him using the N-word after a night out with his friends.

The singer publicly apologized for using the racial slur, stating, “I’m embarrassed and sorry,” adding, “I used an unacceptable and inappropriate racial slur that I wish I could take back. There are no excuses to use this type of language, ever. I want to sincerely apologize for using the word. I promise to do better.”

But the cancelation attempts nonetheless followed, as the chart-topper was dropped by radio networks and major streaming platforms, as well as his talent agency, WME.

Wallen was also banned from last November’s American Music Awards (AMAs) in Los Angeles — despite having been nominated for two awards: favorite country album and favorite male country artist.

Despite having been nearly completely blacklisted from the country music scene, the singer also had the best-selling album of 2021, outperforming artists like Adele, Olivia Rodrigo, and Drake.

Earlier this month, Wallen performed at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee, which sparked backlash among some, including Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Jason Isbell, who reacted by complaining, “I’m real sad for a lot of my friends today.”

Rot in hell, Jason.

It just makes me sick.

Jason Isbell used to be a poet for the burned out rural South, telling their stories, then he stopped drinking and got some whore woman involved with him and moved to Nashville. Now he’s Mr. Anti-Racist, Mr. Soros Global Initiative. Next he needs to start speaking out for trannies.

By the way, this is all a gigantic hoax – Wallen didn’t do some Michael Richards style rant, screaming “shut up niggers!” at actual black people.

What he did was something that I think every millennial did – ironically saw a white friend and was like “hey, what up nigga?” I still do this.

Don’t we all do this? It’s because when we were kids in the 1990s, there was always this rap music around, and for whatever reason, ironically using black slang became a part of white culture. I guess as a psychological defense against it.

I’m not talking about actual wiggers (who also existed and were kind of like trannies), but I remember in high school and whatever, we would regularly use these phrases, like if you wanted your friend to stop by your house, you’d say “swoop by my crib, nigga.” It didn’t even vaguely relate to racial hatred, it related to MTV constantly playing 2 Pac and Dr. Dre and so on, and it was just funny to use this language.

You can even say that phrases like “just chillin'” are kind of ebonics “loan phrases.”

You keep some of these quirks from your teen years. If I’m sitting around at a bar or whatever waiting on a friend, I’ll text “nigga where u at?” That has no relation to race hate and only has to do with blacks insofar as black culture was made into mainstream culture during my developmental years.

That’s what Wallen did and everyone knows that’s what he did.

Isbell is from Alabama and I guarantee you he’s used “nigger” non-ironically, and he’s probably on tape doing it, and that’s probably part of why he’s acting like such a faggot.

But seriously – go to hell, Jason.

I used to at least be a respecter of your solo stuff, and now I think the music sucks and you suck, but I still can’t even believe how big of a faggot you are.

Johnny Rebel is rolling in his grave.

I write this from a coffee shop in Nigeria, Sunday morning. The beer I had for breakfast wasn’t bad, so I had one more for desert. I don’t drink beer, as a rule, but God help me Jesus, it is autumn and we are all on a rollercoaster into the mouth of hell, just as those six million rode the rollercoaster into the incinerator.

A recent truthful book I’ve read from the honest Jews described the rollercoaster into the incinerator as more of a log ride, like Splash Mountain at Disney Land, or the log ride I used to go to at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, when I was a boy.

Cedar Point will be completely cashless by 2022, because too many children are getting the deadly coronavirus from the use of dollar bills.

But it’s not like that is going to keep it open. It will close, as everything from my childhood will close, due to the absolutely deadliness of this deadly virus.

I’ve ordered eggs, and they have not yet arrived at time of writing. I keep a weird schedule, so my breakfast is effectively a dinner, but I will not eat something other than eggs on a morning, especially a Sunday morning.

No matter if coronavirus or the vax or the Jews or six bagellion Haitian immigrants, there is one thing that will always remain true: there’s nothing short of dying half as lonesome as the sound of a sleeping city sidewalk and Sunday morning coming down.

This is particularly and explicitly true when you’re already drunk and Sunday begins and you have to go out on the streets. Coronavirus either makes this worse or better, I’m not sure. Definitely, even in October of 2021, there are fewer small kids cussing at balls that they’re kicking than there were in 2019. Frankly, I haven’t seen a single kid cussing at a ball.

Frankly, my cleanest dirty shirt is a lot less clean than it was in 2019. What is the point of cleaning these shirts, if 90% of the people whose faces I’m going to see are wearing masks? These are not people, they are drones, and I don’t care what they think about the cleanliness of my shirts.

I’m losing touch with the core of the social order.

I wish, more than anything, there was a church I could stumble into, where a man of God with warm eyes would comfort me, and tell me this is all a part of God’s plan. I know it is all a part of God’s plan. I believe it and do not doubt it for a second. But if some man of the cloth who I respected as an understander of Christian philosophy and a carrier of the traditions of our ancestors would tell me, it would light up my soul.

Our civilization is not dying. It is dead.

We lost.

Donald Trump not only failed, he failed and then he came up at our backs with deadly knife – or perhaps, with a syringe.

But we will prevail.

We must prevail.

The church might be dead, but Christ is risen, and no Jew can erase this fact.

In many ways, the worse things get, the better, as the closer we come to the point where this system will end, and we will all be free.

We have all suffered so much. Not one of us has been spared.

Our childhoods and adulthoods have been defiled by the most significant evil the earth has ever seen, and the coronavirus hoax is simply the killshot, wiping out what remains of our society.

But it is not over.

We lost the battle, but we are destined to win the war.

Deus Vult.

Nothing is over, as long as you and I live and breath, and Jesus walks.

I open the news hoping to find that Donald Trump has ordered an excavation of the satanic pedophile tunnels under Tom Hanks’ house, and instead I find that Kenny Rogers is dead.

The Rogers family is sad to announce that Kenny Rogers passed away last night at 10:25PM at the age of 81. Rogers passed away peacefully at home from natural causes under the care of hospice and surrounded by his family. https://t.co/adxAgiMW2s pic.twitter.com/nggWiiotMT

— Kenny Rogers (@_KennyRogers) March 21, 2020

And Tom Hanks is just going to get away with it, I’m sure.

This is exactly what I did not need today. And of course, what should be the most important news of the year is getting buried under dumb nonsense about the boomer hoax virus.

This is a sick world. It’s just truly sick.

For those of you kids who don’t know, let me tell you a little something about Kenny Rogers: he was the best there ever was, other than maybe Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard and Johnny Cash. And probably Willie Nelson.

But aside from those, he was the best.

They’ll tell you he’s the singer of “The Gambler.” And that is true and that is a great song that young men can learn a lot from.

But he was the singer of so much more.

His first big hits were with The First Edition, a band that he fronted which was formed in 1967.

In 1976, Rogers released his first solo album, which contained such hits about women whose names start with “L” as “Laura” and “Lucile.”

Then came The Gambler.

But after that came “Don’t Fall in Love with a Dreamer.”

In 1982 he starred in the film “Six Pack.”

And then his number 1 hit “Lady,” produced by Lionel Richie.

Man, that is a fantastic song.

Then with the Bee Gees’ Larry Gibb, he did “Islands in the Stream,” a duet with Dolly Parton.

In 1988, with Ronnie Milsap, he released the award-winning “Make No Mistake (She’s Mine).”

Continuing to kick out the hits like an absolute MACHINE, Rogers had another number 1 hit in 2000 with “Buy Me a Rose.”

But his greatest achievement of all was with the fast food restaurant chain “Kenny Rogers’ Roasters,” which served roasted chicken of the finest order.

Kenny Rogers’ Roasters was a place where all good families could go and know for a fact that they were going to get the best roast chicken this side of the Pegasus galaxy.

It was a sight to behold, those roasters.

Kenny Rogers was a truly great American, and he will be sorely missed.

In fact, he was probably the last great American.

Now all we have left is scum like Tom Hanks and his sickening satanic pedo tunnels which Donald Trump refuses to excavate.

She has committed the ultimate sin. Crucify her.

This is possibly the nuttiest apology to the Jews thus far.

It wasn’t a lot of celebrities that voted for Trump – Bruce Willis, Sylvester Stallone, Clint Eastwood, Hulk Hogan, Dana White, Ted Nugent, Kid Rock, Mike Tyson (black so doesn’t really count I guess) off the top of my head (there are probably a couple more, I dunno) – but none of them were asked to apologize for it.

And none of them were country music singers either (although I imagine there were a bunch of country music figures who also did support him).

And Shania didn’t even actually vote for him, apparently – she just said she would have if she wasn’t a filthy Canadian swine.

Washington Post:

On Sunday morning, the Guardian published a long profile of Shania Twain, timed to the country-pop superstar’s new tour that will begin next week. In the second-to-last paragraph, Canadian-born Twain revealed that if she had been eligible to vote in the 2016 presidential election, she would have supported Donald Trump.

“I would have voted for him because, even though he was offensive, he seemed honest,” said Twain, 52. “Do you want straight or polite? Not that you shouldn’t be able to have both. If I were voting, I just don’t want bull—-. I would have voted for a feeling that it was transparent. And politics has a reputation of not being that, right?”

You would think that this would be the default position of anyone who wasn’t explicitly concerned with politics – “the guy seems like he isn’t totally full of shit, so I’m gonna go with him.”

Her quote went viral on social media, and hours later, “Shania Twain” was trending worldwide on Twitter. Given that lots of people were not pleased by her comments, the hashtag #ShaniaTwainCancelled had hundreds of tweets.

Twain, the highest-selling solo female artist in country music history, apologized Sunday night after the backlash intensified. She called her answer to the Guardian “awkward” and said that she wished she had given it more context. Twain also emphasized that she does not endorse Trump.

Twain emphasized inclusivity and that she is “passionately against discrimination” because many were discouraged to see someone considered an LGBT-friendly artist say they would vote for Trump, who supported a ban on transgender people serving in the military, among other policies.

Yeah, okay.

Sure, bitch.

Trannies again.

The eternal tranny – cause of the century.

Everything is riding on the tranny finally being free of the yoke of having been born with a benis.

This is the true face of the oppression of the eternal sexual proletariat 

I don’t think anyone gives a shit about you, so you went ahead and sold out your soul and apologized for nothing, no one will forgive – I don’t even forgive you for being the female Garth Brooks before this particularly weird incident even happened.

Country music used to be AWESOME.

It used to be about drinking, shooting speed and beating up women.

And you destroyed it with your goofy, sappy, cartoon bullshit.

Finding out you’re from Canada – makes perfect sense.

I’ll bet Garth is from Canada too.

What a disgusting country.

You people are absolute filth.

Keanu is the only one worth a shit.

And he’s Chinese.

Tucker Carlson had former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino on his show with a scoop on the Las Vegas shooting investigation.

Bongino isn’t Mike Cernovich or Alex Jones, he is generally a serious guy, and he was implying that his sources in the investigation think Stephen Paddock had a political motive (non-Islamic) in targeting a mostly white country music concert.

This was everyone’s initial gut feeling. The FBI and mainstream media immediately jumped up to defend Antifa and the Judeo-Left when people started speculating. They certainly didn’t extend that benefit of the doubt to James Fields, whose car crash was laughably labeled “domestic terrorism.”

Whatever the case may be, Paddock certainly wasn’t someone who woke up in a bad mood and went postal. New details show he not only meticulously planned the attack, but apparently went out of his way to hide the motive, so he probably didn’t do it to make an obvious point either. It is also being suggested that he may have been terminally ill.

All of that would be consistent with an entitled Woodstock J-leftist or Antifa sympathizer on his death bed trying to bring evil white racists down with him.

What is most stark is that it appears a possible accomplice or enabler has been uncovered. His Filipino mail-order bride Marilou Danley has already admitted that she helped him load the magazines he used. Email correspondence between Paddock and another account shows he had somebody selling and familiarizing him with the weapons used in the crime.

The stink of a Jewish cover-up here isn’t just coming from inconsistencies in the facts, but also from the shocking reality that the mainstream media isn’t treating this as important.

They probably know more than we do and are afraid.

Fox 5 Vegas:

FOX5 is learning new information about the 1 October shooting from more than 300 pages of recently unsealed FBI documents. A judge made the decision on Friday to unseal dozens of search warrants despite insistence from investigators for the documents to stay sealed.

Although the documents do not reveal everything the FBI found, it outlines the probable cause FBI agents used to make requests and gives us an idea of what they have been looking for.

E-mails

According to one of many requests for access into shooter Stephen Paddock’s email account, investigators found that he may have been emailing himself cryptic messages.

“try an ar before u buy. we have huge selection. located in las vegas area,” Paddock reportedly wrote on July 7, 2017, from his centralpark1@live.com email address.

“we have a wide variety of optics and ammunition to try,” someone responded, from the email address centralpark4804@gmail.com.

“for a thrill try out bumpfire ar’s with a 100 round magazine,” centralpark1@live.com replied.

Investigators said they are unsure whether the person behind the centralpark4804@gmail.com is Paddock, based on the very similar email addresses. If it is not Paddock, investigators stated they need to find out who is replying to the shooter’s emails. For that reason, agents requested access into both email addresses.

The FBI states Paddock was once the manager of an apartment complex in Reno called Central Park.

…

The FBI also requested access to Marilou Danley’s online accounts. Danley was Paddock’s live-in girlfriend. She was out of the country during 1 October and received money from him prior to the shooting. Her “player’s club card” was inside Paddock’s Mandalay Bay hotel room. Within hours after the shooting, she deleted her Facebook account.

When Danley arrived in the United States, she admitted that her fingerprints are probably on the bullets used during the massacre, because she would help her boyfriend load magazines.

“She has been identified thus far as the most likely person who aided or abetted Stephen Paddock based on her informing law enforcement that her fingerprints would likely be found on the ammunition used during the attack,” wrote an FBI agent. “Although, the investigation to date has not produced any conclusive evidence that Danley aided Paddock, had foreknowledge of his plans or has been deceptive with law enforcement, this aspect of the investigation is still the subject of intensive review…investigators are not yet prepared to rule this possibility out.”

…

Number of shots inside the Mandalay Bay?

Throughout the 300 pages of FBI search warrants, agents repeatedly used the same sentence, at least a dozen times. to describe what they found inside the Mandalay Bay.

“Officers and Agents found over 20 firearms, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, and hundreds of spent shell casings in the Mandalay Bay hotel rooms, in close proximity to Paddock’s body.”

It is unclear why the FBI would state there were only “hundreds” of spent shell casings inside the room Paddock used to carry out this mass shooting, considering at least 600 people were hit. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department has stated that, thankfully, the majority of Paddock’s shots did not land. If this is true, one would think that agents would have found thousands of casings — not “hundreds.”

Throughout other areas of the documents, the investigators wrote they found “over a thousand rounds” inside Paddock’s car and “over a thousand rounds” inside Paddock’s Mesquite residence. Still, only “hundreds” inside the Mandalay Bay.

…

Another judge could decide to unseal search warrants from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department as early as Tuesday. Metro has stated that it will have representatives in court to argue against the release of documents to the public.

Why is the LVPD trying to keep what they’ve got so far away from the eyes of the public?

According to what the FBI has let seep out, something is not adding up between the amount of spent casings near Paddock’s body and the amount of people shot. A second shooter is naturally the first thing that comes to mind.

Word is that more documents will be released later today. We’ll keep you updated as more information is revealed about this bizarre case.

It is difficult to imagine anything whiter than a country music concert.

To the point where you would have to be targeting whites, purposefully, in order to hit one.

This is the opposite of some recent London attacks, where the victims have been celebrated for their diversity.

So far, we don’t have any further information on the motives of the shooter. I just assume that is because they’re being covered up by the cops and will be trickled out later.

There is simply no way that he didn’t leave some sort of note or manifesto.

What they have found is that his father was a FBI ten most wanted bank robber.

NBC's @PeterAlexander reports shooter's father former FBI 10 Most Wanted bank robber Patrick Benjamin Paddock, aka Benjamin Hoskins Paddock pic.twitter.com/xnQEH5KOdA

— Brendan Keefe (@BrendanKeefe) October 2, 2017

Which is a pretty strange factoid.

The FBI is denouncing and disavowing the ISIS claim that the shooter Paddock was an Islamic convert.

RT:

The attacker did not affiliate himself with any political or religious group, the brother of the gunman, Eric Paddock, from Orlando, said.

“No religious affiliation. No political affiliation,” he told CBS News.

Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said authorities believe it was a “lone wolf” attack.

US security agencies are assessing the IS claim but have not verified it, Reuters reports, citing officials. Two unnamed senior US officials told Reuters that no evidence suggested a connection between the shooter and any international militant group.

But I think he had to be ISIS.

What the hell else?

He certainly isn’t far-right or he wouldn’t have attacked a country music concert. Maybe a negro rap show.

Anyway, if he was far-right they would have released that already, for sure.

He could just be a leftist.

I’ve never been a fan of country music, but it is still popular in the heartland of America where you have a significant number of traditionalist Americans who dislike the promotion of homosexuality.  Now they are attempting to breakdown these barriers with openly gay country music singers.

Do they honestly think that people are going to accept this nonsense?  Country music and homosexuality simply do not mix.  These faggot country music singers should have stayed in the closet.

AFP:

Church, pickup trucks and dive bars — the imagery of classic country songs evokes “traditional” small-town American life. Now a rising number of openly gay crooners are testing just how inclusive that vision can be.

Two prominent singers came out of the closet within hours of each other on Thursday. Ty Herndon, who rose to stardom in the 1990s with both love ballads and Christian songs, declared himself to be an “out, proud and happy gay man.”

Herndon, who at 52 has been married twice to women, said that he had struggled since his childhood to come to terms with his sexuality.

He said he was now in a relationship with a man and has reconciled his Christianity and sexual orientation.