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Prince: God has had it with gays

In the 80′s there were two musicians that reigned supreme in my teenage idol loving heart. Michael Jackson and Prince. Michael has long since broken my heart when I realized in high school that his nose was getting thinner and skin lighter. And even as my disappointment in Michael grew with the very believable accusations of child molestation and the two little white kids he claims to be his biological children, I still, though with some reservation, dance to the music of who he was and not who he has become. Prince on the other hand, whose music challenged sexual norms and  has for decades been the background beat to lovemaking for all sexualities, has done little to disappoint me. Even when he  converted to Jehovah Witness and refused to play any of the songs that has given the world so much joy and quite a few babies, we, his fans, just quietly excepted his new found truth and instead went to Prince tribute parties to remember what was. His faith is no business of ours. That is until he made it.   I stumbled upon an interview with Prince in this week’s New Yorker (excerpt):

…And then on the opposite end of the spectrum you’ve got blue, you’ve got the Democrats, and they’re, like, ‘You can do whatever you want.’ Gay marriage, whatever. But neither of them is right.”…

When asked about his perspective on social issues—gay marriage, abortion—Prince tapped his Bible and said, “God came to earth and saw people sticking it wherever and doing it with whatever, and he just cleared it all out. He was, like, ‘Enough.’ ”

Where does one begin? Prince has been accused throughout his entire career of being gay. Even just a couple of superbowls ago when I found myself screaming to top of my lungs in harmony with football loving straight dudes and fellow butches; we had all become that teenager again as he sang Purple Rain in the rain at halftime. Even still he caught flack from homophobes who believed his stylee was that of ‘a gay’. And I would be hard pressed to disbelieve that throughout all of the sexual escapades made available to him in the earlier and more fruitful parts of his career he did not try at least once or thrice to lay with another man. But aside from the accusations, levels of nakedness and tight fitting costumes he still appeared at his core, to me atleast, to be heterosexual.  Heterosexual, but not homophobic. But as he ages and his hips are needing to be replaced (from years of wearing high heels) and his new religion is found, it seems he is on the fast food track to proving this to everyone and maybe even to himself. We have all done 180s in our lives, had epiphanies and either moved in a more positive direction or headed further down the rabbit hole. But who is this man or any man to judge, tapping his bible as if his bible were to say amen. Ya know brother, do what you will and believe what your believe, but who are you or any of the door knockers to judge what the rest of us need to prosper. Just live your life and leave me mine to love, explore and further understand.

This man’s ego is enormous. You may want  to leave the sex, drugs and rock and roll behind, but you have simply found another place to rest your elphant sized ego. Now you are speaking for God and getting frustrated and impatient for God. When will the fundamentally judgemental faith pushers realize God don’t need you to do a damn thing for God but live and love and even if you choose not to, then God is not effected either way; cause well its God. I seriously doubt if God gets upset, holds tantrums, gets pissed, disappointed or enraged. Those are the attributes of something much smaller, man. Eh, whatever. I will simply stick with my memories of running home to play my 45 of ‘Let’s Go Crazy’ because I’m sure God would not mind a child simply having fun in the kingdom of music.

JUST ADDED: According to Perez Hilton,

Contrary to what a recent interview with the New Yorker is reporting, a source close to the rocker tells us that Prince was grossly misquoted and misinterpreted as not down with gay rights.

Apparently, the interviewer did not even use a recorder when she spoke with His Holy Purpleness, and that when she called his people to fact check, it turned out she had several factual inaccuracies, including a little bit about Prince recovering from hip surgery, which he never even had. Like Prince is really made of bones or something and not nebulous gold glitter – come on!

What His Purpleness actually did was gesture to the Bible and said he follows what it teaches, referring mainly to the parts about loving everyone and refraining from judgment.

That sounds better, considering he’s a man who caused his own Controversy!

“We’re very angry he was misquoted,” says our Prince insider.