"He really is being treated unjustly by many Americans..."

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11. Garth is against racism and supports gay rights and has been maligned for all of that.

Support for gay rights

There have been rumours of alleged homosexuality since early in Brooks' career. Though it would seem evident that he is not based on his marriages to women, this is not always an indicator of actual sexual preference. Brooks has consistently denied the rumours but his public actions have only fuelled speculation. He appeared in the year 2000 at the Equality Rocks benefit concert for gay rights. He sang a duet with openly gay singer George Michael.

In the lyrics to his song "We Shall be Free", Brooks sings "When we're free to love anyone we choose," a reference to gay relationships. However, this is by no means any indication of a homosexual preference; the song deals with all issues of fascism, racism and bigotry and is a song about how everyone is equal, rather than a "coming out" song.

Brooks won a 1993 GLAAD Media Award for the song and his subsequent comments about it, such as, "But if you're in love, you've got to follow your heart and trust that God will explain to us why we sometimes fall in love with people of the same sex."

http://gaytoday.badpuppy.com/garchive/entertain/040599en.htm

Because of these gay-positive comments, and a close and heavily publicized relationship with his own lesbian sister, Brooks has become one of very few country music gay icons. (By comparison, in the pop or rock worlds none of these stances would cause much notice.)

http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/garth-brooks/controversies.html

According to conservatives and Dittoheads, you must be gay if you want them to have equal rights, and the older charge is there, too. The one where if you respect blacks or minorities, you must have some non-white blood in your or you're carrying on with one in bed. Or if you say that other religions or lack of religion doesn't make one a bad or good people by label. They are spiritually dead, and they can't comprehend big thoughts, so naturally they hate Obama. BTW, I would like to love them, but I need a little breather between them beating me up to forgive them. Because I want to do that.