Miley Cyrus on Twitter-Hate

by Michael Jones · 2010-03-19 08:12:00 UTC
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Miley CyrusIf you were following Miley Cyrus on Twitter last year, you're probably wondering where the hell she went. Turns out that Cyrus quit her Twitter account, but not because she was bored, found something new, or didn't have the time to Tweet.

Nope, Cyrus quit her Twitter account because homophobic fans attacked her after she tweeted her support of gay marriage. If you can't shoot the message, shoot the messenger, or so it goes for silly anti-gay activists who would attack a teenage pop artist for believing in equality.

What did Cyrus say that caused the flurry of hate?

"Jesus loves you AND your partner and wants you to know how much he cares! That's like a daddy not loving his lil boy cuz he's gay and that is WRONG and very sad! Like I said everyone deserves to be happy," Cyrus tweeted.

Well, as Elton John found out, anti-gay folks really hate it when you lump the word "Jesus" in a statement supporting gay rights. Funny how a religious figure who is supposed to be about the embodiment of love makes people want to hate so much.

Cyrus told Parade Magazine that after receiving so much hate mail over her support of gay marriage (not to mention a vision of Jesus that doesn't smote queer folks), she decided to quit Twitter.

"There has been so much controversy sometimes about what I’ve said or done because I believe there are no mistakes because God is the only one who can judge us," Cyrus said. "That’s the reason I deleted my Twitter account because I said on there that I believed in gay marriage because everyone should have the right to love each other, and I got such hate mail about my being a bad person.”

I think we all know who the bad people are in this case. And it's not Miley.

Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons

Michael Jones is a Change.org Editor. He has worked in the field of human rights communications for a decade, most recently for Harvard Law School.
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