Carrie Underwood slammed by fans for supporting gay marriage

Washington, June 23 (ANI): Carrie Underwood has faced a backlash from fans on the Internet, after showing support for gay marriage.

The 29-year-old singer spoke out on her views of same-sex unions during a newspaper interview.

"I was asked a difficult question in the last five minutes of an interview and I answered it the best way I knew how, and after that I do what I do and I love making music and I generally try to stay out of any kind of controversy," Contactmusic quoted her as telling the Independent.

The devout Christian singer, who tied the knot with Mike Fisher in 2010, said that she believes marriage should be legal for all.

"As a married person myself, I don't know what it's like to be told I can't marry somebody I love, and want to marry.I can't imagine how that must feel. I definitely think we should all have the right to love, and love publicly, the people that we want to love.

"The role-model word is really scary to me, because no matter what happens in your life, something you do, wear, say, sing, whatever - somebody somewhere is probably not going to like it too well.

"I just really try hard to do what I do and try to be nice to people and make great music and if people think they can look up to that, that's wonderful. If not, that's OK too," she added. (ANI)