She famously said, “If you’re gay, you’re gay. If you’re straight, you’re straight. And you should be allowed to be how you are and who you are.”
In 2016, she spoke out on the North Carolina bathroom bill – a law declaring that people had to use the bathroom associated with the sex on their birth certificate – saying, “I think everybody should be treated with respect. I don’t judge people, and I try not to get too caught up in the controversy of things. I hope that everybody gets a chance to be who and what they are. I just know if I have to pee, I’m going to pee. I don’t care where it’s going to be.”
I mean, she’s basically a drag queen.
For those curious, here’s the whole quote: “I just want everybody to be treated good. I try not to get into the politics of everything. I try to get into the human element of it. I have some of everybody in my own immediate family and in my circle of employees. I’ve got transgender people. I’ve got gays. I’ve got lesbians. I’ve got drunks. I’ve got drug addicts — all within my own family. I know and love them all, and I do not judge.”
The quote has been re-posted thousands of times.
“This was jesus basically,” one person said.
“In a world of Donald Trumps and Elon Musks be a Dolly Parton,” another person said.
And this person said what we already knew: “God is a woman and it’s Dolly Parton.”