Taylor Swift is far from just a pretty face and pop superstar.
To mark the beginning of Pride Month in June, the Tennessee native, has once again, put her social views and politics on full display by launching a petition, via social media, urging the Senate to support the Equality Act, which increases protections for the LGBTQ community from discrimination.
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Along with petition, the singer-songwriter, 29, also shared the letter she sent to Republican Senator Lamar Alexander, of her home state, making her case on the issue.
'I'm writing to you today in anticipation of a very important vote coming up,' Swift wrote in her letter to Senator Alexander.
'As you know, the House just passed the Equality Act, which would protect LGBTQ people from discrimination in the workplace, in their homes and in schools. For American citizens to be denied jobs or housing based on who they love or how they identify, in my opinion is un-American and cruel.'
She added that 'the refusal in our own state's Legislature to protect LGBTQ people' could cripple Tennessee from bringing new jobs to the state.
The hitmaker went on to talk about how she personally rejects the President's stance that his administration 'supports equal treatment of all', but at same token has described the Equality Act in its current form as 'filled with poison pills that threaten to undermine parental and conscience rights.'
Swift continued, 'No, one cannot take the position that one supports a community, while condemning it in the next breath as going against 'conscience' or 'parental rights.'
In conclusion, Swift signed the letter, 'Please, please think about the lives you could change for the better if you were to vote to support the Equality Act in the Senate and prohibit this harsh and unfair discrimination.'
The House of Representatives passed the legislation in mid-May, but it has yet to be taken up by the Republican-controlled Senate.
Swift is pushing for her fans and others to step up and send their Senate leaders letters of their own in support for the Equality Act.
'I urge you to write to your senators too. I'll be looking for your letters by searching the hashtag #lettertomysenator.'
'Our country’s lack of protection for its own citizens ensures that LGBTQ people must live in fear that their lives could be turned upside down by an employer or landlord who is homophobic or transphobic,' Swift wrote in the petition on Change.org.
'The fact that, legally, some people are completely at the mercy of the hatred and bigotry of others is disgusting and unacceptable.'
The Grammy winner also put her money where her mouth is by making a donation to GLAAD (formerly Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation), a non-governmental media monitoring organization founded by LGBT people in the media in 1985.
'Thank you @taylorswift for kicking off #PrideMonth by making a generous donation to support our work to accelerate acceptance for LGBTQ people. We love you,' the organization shared on it's social media platforms.
