Singer-songwriter Michael Buble said
this week that he would love his sons if they turned out to be gay.
When asked by Michigan gay weekly
PrideSource how he might respond if one of his two sons were to come
out to him, Buble answered he would respond “with nothing but
love.”
“And I'm not saying that to you
because it's you or the magazine,” Buble
said. “It's because I love them, man. I love them so much that
I just want them to be happy. My goal in life is to make them
beautiful, happy human beings, and if that's who they are – because
I'm killed, just devastated, when I hear people saying they 'choose.'
'Choose'? What are you fucking talking about? You don't choose. It
isn't a choice. It is genetic.”
“And I understand some people have an
issue with the whole marriage thing and the sanctity of this word
'marriage,'” he continued. “I mean, I don't get it, but I can
choose to listen to their point and hear it. I don't agree with it. I
always joke, everyone jokes: Why can't gay people be just as
miserable as straight people who are married? But listen to me, we
are in a world – a dangerous world – right now, and if you're not
standing up against intolerance, then you're for it. God, I sounded
like George W. fucking Bush right there, holy shit. 'If you're not
with us, you're against us!'”
Asked whether he was afraid to lose
fans over his support for equality, Buble answered no.
“I'm not. Because you know what,
years from now, when my kids grow up and they read this, they're
going to be proud of their father because their father was on the
right side of the line,” he said. “There are a lot of people,
and time does this, who are going to be severely embarrassed for
their bias and intolerance. And they're going to have to live with
that; that's going to be their legacy. I refuse to have that as part
of my legacy.”