Luke Combs is taking a stance on the outdated belief that sexual orientation is a choice.
The country singer, 36, affirmed his support for the LGBTQ+ community in a new interview while discussing his 2024 song “Whoever You Turn Out to Be,” in which he assures his sons that he will love them no matter what path they take in life.
“Look, I’d love my kids to be super into deer hunting and go with me all the time,” he told GQ Hype in a profile published on Tuesday, March 17. “But if my kid wants to live in SoHo and be an abstract painter, then hey, that sounds great too — can’t wait to come up and go to the gallery. I don’t need my kids to be anything, you know what I mean? I’m not trying to fill some hole in myself with them.”
When asked whether he hopes the track from his album Fathers & Sons has resonated with the parents of queer children, Combs confirmed that was part of its inspiration.
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“I am a firm believer that you don’t get to choose. You don’t get to choose who you want to be with, and I can’t imagine feeling the pressure a child would experience coming to terms with those things on their own. And then having the pressure of not knowing if your parents would be OK with that or disown them?” he said, shaking his head.
The Grammy nominee — who recently described himself as “heavily moderate” — noted that he prefers to keep his political beliefs close to the vest, but he will never stand idly by when someone is being discriminated against.
“That’s the space that I would like to operate in, you know what I mean? Basically, just being a good person and doing what you believe is right and not getting involved in the minutiae of labeling it,” he told GQ Hype. “Why can’t you just be a good person and just be loved? It does take some massaging to do it all in a way that doesn’t come off as, like, deceitful or trite. It’s a delicate balance.”
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Luke is the father of three sons with his wife, Nicole Combs: 3-year-old Tex Lawrence, 2-year-old Beau Lee and 1-month-old Chet Wiley.
“My wife has supreme belief in me,” he proudly told the magazine of being a present dad despite his busy music career. “I could put [our] kids in the car right now and say, ‘Hey, we’re driving to Florida, and I’m going to spend a week with the kids by myself,’ and she wouldn’t worry if I could take care of them.”
