Dolly Parton says she has received death threats from the Ku Klux Klan over her 'Gay Day' at theme park Dollywood in Tennessee.

Rumors about the relationship between the gay icon and her female best friend Judy Ogle have followed her throughout her career.

'Judy and I have been best friends since we were like in the third and fourth grade,' she said in the interview with the Daily Mail.

Fortunately the country western singer feels secure enough in her 46-year long marriage with Carl Dean that she is able to laugh off such claims.

Chicago Archbishop Cardinal Francis George used an event celebrating the 50 year anniversaries of 400 couples over the weekend to express his opposition to same-sex marriage.

He did not mention gay marriage directly but instead said the institution of marriage is something that 'comes to us from God' not from the church or from the government.

Same-sex civil partnerships are legal in Illinois and Gov. Pat Quinn is pushing for gay marriage to become legal.

Cardinal Francis George turned 75 this week and has submitted his letter of resignation to Pope Benedict XVI.

But the controversial leader of the Catholic Church in Chicago is not resigning over the flap he caused by comparing LGBT activists in Chicago to the Ku Klux Klan.

The resignation is mandatory when a cardinal turns 75. It is up to the Pope to accept it or not.

A planned protest against Chicago's Cardinal Francis George has been called off.

The leader of the United State's third largest city's  archdiocese has been in hot water since Christmas Day when he compared the LGBT community to the Ku Klux Klan. Despite multiple requests to take back the words, the cardinal repeated his claim. George finally offered an apology this weekend.

A group of LGBT activists in Chicago plan to demonstrate against Cardinal Francis George on Sunday in an effort to get the leader of the city's Catholic Church to apologize for comparing them to the Ku Klux Klan.

Participating in a demonstration in front of Holy Name Cathedral will be the Rainbow Sash Movement and the Gay Liberation Movement who have the  support of Equality Illinois.

Chicago's Archbishop Francis George is standing by his analogy comparing the LGBT community to the Ku Klux Klan leading Truth Wins Out to step-up pressure on him to resign.

The nonprofit organization, which fights against anti-LGBT extremism, is placing a full page ad in Sunday's Chicago Tribune with the headline 'Hey, Cardinal Francis George, Gay is not like the KKK.'

Cardinal Francis George does not want Chicago's Gay Pride Parade route to go by one of the city's oldest Roman Catholic chuches even though it is located just outside the city's famous Boystown neighborhood.

The LGBT community is calling for the resignation of Chicago's Roman Catholic leader is under fire for saying he believes the June parade could lead to a situation where marchers morph 'into something like the Ku Klux Klan, demonstrating in the streets against Catholicism.'

Cardinal Francis George is now reiterating his controversial comparison of LGBT activists in Chicago to the Ku Klux Klan and calls for his resignation are growing louder.

The head of the city's Roman Catholic Church had appeared to be toning down his position on Christmas Day but in a statement on the Archdiocese of Chicago's website this week, he not only repeated the comparison, but expanded upon it.