Famous Singer Refuses Invite to Sing at 2014 Olympics in Russia: ‘Why All of This Gay Hate?’

Pop accompanist Cher has beneath an invitation to accomplish at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Citing the country’s recently-enacted anti-gay laws, the acclaimed accompanist said that she would not be alms her articulation up to absorb the masses.

In an account with Canada’s MacLean’s magazine, she batten out about her accommodation to abatement the offer. The interview, which abundant beforehand this month, is just now alpha to accomplish U.S. headlines.

“I can’t name names, but my acquaintance alleged who is a big absolutist over there and asked me if I’d like to be an agent for the Olympics and accessible the show,” Cher told MacLean’s. “I anon said no. I wish to apperceive why all of this gay abhorrence just exploded over there.”

Pop accompanist Cher (Photo Credit: AP)

The accompanist went on to say that her bearding acquaintance assured her that the Russian humans feel actual abnormally from the Russian government on the matter.

Cher aswell told the aperture and she and her backward ex-husband Sonny Bono were consistently on the binding in their aboriginal career and that he was even alleged an “f**” because of the accouterment the two wore. As a aftereffect of getting on the outside, the accompanist acclaimed that she relates to gays and lesbians.

As TheBlaze and the AP told appear beforehand this summer, Russia’s advancing anti-gay law was active by President Vladimir Putin in backward June (more about that can be begin here), arty fines on individuals accused of overextension “propaganda of nontraditional animal relations” to minors, and even proposing penalties for those who accurate these angle online or in the account media. Gay pride rallies aswell are banned.

It is these regulations that accept Cher up in accoutrements and abnegation to accommodate her articulation to the country’s Olympic anniversary next year.

(H/T: Charisma)

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