Clay Aiken speaks out: ‘No matter what we might want a family to look like, we can’t put into a constitution one narrow definition.’

Clay Aiken says he used to want to be governor of his home state of North Carolina.

But instead of going into politics, he became a star on American Idol and parlayed that success into a recording and stage career.

The openly gay singer, who is a single father, is using his fame to speak out against a ballot measure called Amendment One which will go before North Carolina’s voters on May 8. It would ban domestic partnerships and non-marriage partner benefits for couples – gay or straight.

‘Families look different, they always have looked different,’ Aiken says in a video for Protect All NC Families. ‘No matter what we might want a family to look like, we can’t put into a constitution – a document that’s supposed to protect our rights – one narrow definition.’

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