Lead singer of Christian band Jars of Clay, Dan Haseltine issued an apology statement after his comments on gay marriage led to a media frenzy and his band's music being pulled from the radio.

Just days after the media reported of Haseltine's comments on Twitter in support of gay marriage, the singer took to Twitter again to ask what the big deal was and question why was his opinion affecting whether people played his band's music?

"Caught wind that some radio stations have pulled my music and people are deleting my music from their playlists. Why?" he tweeted.

In April, after a long plane ride, the lead singer seemingly moved by the movie "12 Years a Slave," sent a tweet that started an uproar "The treatment of people as less than human based on the color of skin is crazy... Or gender, or sexual orientation for that matter," he wrote. From there Haseltine continued, opening up the conversion by discussing the topic of same-sex marriage.

Because of the backlash from his Christian supporters who noted that many of his tweets were offensive, the front man penned a blog explaining his stance and apologizing for the poor usage of some of his words.

In his blog he detailed that he was invited to attend a panel discussion about moral behavior and the church during his trip to Australia. He said the discussion made him immediately become "aware" of the fact that he had "not given much attention to the dialogue about gay rights."

In his blog post he went on to explain that in the movie "12 Years a Slave," he realized the antagonist in the film "was mis-using scripture to back up his acts of oppression toward another human."

He then said, "I wanted to figure out if I had a blind spot. Was I buying into a form of oppression? Or does the legalization of gay marriage actually undermine traditional marriage and the biblical view of how we are called to live our lives?"

He outlined the background and motivation behind his Twitter rant. Haseltine confessed, "In my haste to get the next idea out, I wrote things that were unnecessarily combative."

One particular post that had believers raving was, "I don't particularly care about Scriptures stance on what is 'wrong.' I care more about how it says we should treat people," Haseltine declared.

However, in his blog, he stated that he recognized his statements were wrong, and Haseltine blamed it on the fact that Twitter limits the amount of characters one can type.

"In the heat of discussion, I communicated poorly and thus unintentionally wrote that I did not care about what scripture said," he wrote. "Thus, the tsunami hit.  It was picked up by bloggers and written into editorials before I could blink.  And rightly so, people were shocked and offended by my statement dismissing the value of scripture. I got it... I should've chosen my words more wisely."

He then clarified, "I care about what scripture says. It matters."

The popular singer then affirmed he learned his lesson, and told his audience, "I am not going to continue the conversation on that forum [Twitter]."

"I do apologize for causing such a negative stir," he insisted and ended the post having said he will no longer use Twitter to open up discussions.

"In the coming days, I will begin posting some questions on my blog www.danhaseltine.com," he wrote.

The band Jars of Clay was formed in Tennessee in the '90s and today they are considered one of the most popular and acclaimed contemporary bands in Christian music.

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