I don’t use the word hero, but I’m loving Kelly Clarkson for spreading joy and promoting acceptance and the idea that we can disagree and still get along. She’s a Texan, lived in Nashville, Reba’s DIL, a Christian, raised by a single mother, has 4 children, accepted in the Southern community, and her new talk show regularly has gay people on as guests and in the audience. Also, people who were not born in America she treats the same as anyone else.
Her crossover presence might just change some minds. We can only hope. Conservatives who aren’t accepting might see her being accepting, and liberals who think Southern Christians aren’t accepting will see that yes, many of them are.
Her energy and fun reminds me of Ellen Degeneres, but Ellen is as everyone knows a Lesbian, and I think perceived as California Hollywood, even if she is from Louisiana originally.
I think it was yesterday a Christian young woman said she lived America and wants to stay, and Kelly said, “yeah, aren’t we fun…”
She just makes me smile.