Pop star Meghan Trainor has come out firmly in support of marriage equality in Australia, after discovering that her face was used to promote the ‘no’ campaign without her knowledge or consent.
A Twitter user by the name of Melanie Morgan alerted the singer to the fairly unpleasant fact that her face had appeared in a Facebook ad from anti-equality campaigners.
The ad in question referenced a lyric from her 2016 song ‘NO‘, reading: ‘My vote is no – you need to let it go.’
Meghan Trainor, a vocal supporter of marriage equality, had no idea that her image had been used in this way, and took to Twitter to distance herself from the whole sorry enterprise.
“I SUPPORT MARRIAGE EQUALITY!” she wrote. “Someone in Australia is illegally using my picture for a campaign against marriage equality. So wrong. Not okay.”
“I’ve said it before,” she added, reiterating her support for equality. “Everyone should be able to love who they want. I support equality, period.”
The ‘All About That Bass‘ singer has spoken out on the issue in the past, telling an interviewer in 2015 that she “would pass gay marriage everywhere. Everyone should be able to love who they want.”
The image has since been removed, with the administrators of a Facebook page that uploaded it apologising and claiming that they did not recognise Trainor in the image.
Yesterday, more than 20,000 people took to the streets in Melbourne to rally in support of equality, determined to knock Malcolm Turnbull‘s gutless plebiscite on its head with a yes vote.
