If you thought soprano Jan Chamberlin was merely humming a partisan tune when she decided to bow out of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir over its plans to sing at Republican Donald Trump's inauguration, you'd be wrong.
"I don't belong to either party. I'm an independent," she said Tuesday. "I voted for [independent presidential candidate] Evan McMullin."
No, it was a "moral issue." That's why Chamberlin, a Utah County voice teacher who has been with the famed choir for five years, could not simply skip putting her name in the lottery that would choose volunteers to sing at the Jan. 20 event.
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