Imagine Dragons’ Dan Reynolds Responds To A Twitter User For His Powerful LGBTQ Criticism
Imagine Dragons’ frontman Dan Reynolds shared a series of tweets on his official Twitter account. The successful singer responded to a Twitter user named @evanbuckIey who criticize him about the LGBT community.
The Twitter user stated:
“Hey @DanReynolds this isn’t me attacking you or anything but I hope you can read this:
“Hope this doesn’t sound rude but what we won’t and we shouldn’t do is praise the mormon church for doing the bare minimum. We are living humans, we deserve full respect or nothing. Most of the things the Mormon church do to ‘be more inclusive’ they do it bc it benefits them (for example baptizing children from LGBT+ parents when they just did it bc baptism number were decreasing and also they’re just baptizing straight children bc if one of them came out they wouldn’t do it).
And if you keep praising them for literally doing nothing they gonna keep doing nothing bc at the end of the day they know they can just do the bare minimum and everything will be fixed, is a never ending circle. I know your religion is extremely important to you and you have faith that it’ll change but I’ve seen a lot of ppl questioning your ally status bc of it.
If someone wanna praise them that’s fine but a straight man saying we should be like “that’s awesome” is not a good thing. again, I hope this doesn’t sound rude. I’m just saying this bc you said you like dialogue and I’ve already seen many people talk about this (including tyler glenn) so idk.”
Dan Reynolds responded with a strong statement.
Here’s what he said:
“Not feeling attacked and totally understand. Just think it’s important to acknowledge even baby steps along the way. The world is dark and can feel overwhelmingly daunting at times so I try to at least acknowledge a positive baby step in the right direction.
No doubt our youth deserve complete and entire acceptance and celebration – anything less is wrong and inexcusable – however this is fight! And with that comes small moments of change that we must acknowledge to continue to have hope for a future where all are equal.
That being said I completely understand your sentiment @evanbuckIey and always enjoy reading your passion. Xx.”
You can find the tweets below.
hey @DanReynolds this isn't me attacking you or anything but I hope you can read this pic.twitter.com/LM1fAZcEnE
— bauti (@evanbuckIey) June 23, 2019
hey @DanReynolds this isn't me attacking you or anything but I hope you can read this pic.twitter.com/LM1fAZcEnE
— bauti (@evanbuckIey) June 23, 2019
Not feeling attacked and totally understand. Just think it’s important to acknowledge even baby steps along the way. The world is dark and can feel overwhelmingly daunting at times so I try to at least acknowledge a positive baby step in the right direction.
— Dan Reynolds (@DanReynolds) June 28, 2019
No doubt our youth deserve complete and entire acceptance and celebration – anything less is wrong and inexcusable – however this is fight! And with that comes small moments of change that we must acknowledge to continue to have hope for a future where all are equal.
— Dan Reynolds (@DanReynolds) June 28, 2019
That being said I completely understand your sentiment @evanbuckIey and always enjoy reading your passion. Xx
— Dan Reynolds (@DanReynolds) June 28, 2019
