Prince slammed for anti-gay marriage comments

Friday, 21st November 2008

Written by Francesca Cookney

80s pop icon, Prince is in trouble again. This time it's for his slightly dodgy religious views. "God came to earth and saw people sticking it wherever and doing it with whatever, and he just cleared it all out," Prince told an interviewer from the New Yorker.

The six time Grammy-award winning artist converted to the Jehovah's Witnesses seven years ago and, like many of this particular spiritual conviction, believes that everyone else has got it wrong.

"You've got the Republicans, and basically they want to live according to [the Bible]," he said. "But there's the problem of interpretation, and you've got some churches, some people, basically doing things and saying it comes from here, but it doesn't. 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."

What he actually thinks is 'right', he either didn't care to say or the New Yorker didn't care to print. Either way, it seems a bit strange from the man whose own sexuality, not to mention wardrobe, has raised many an inquisitive eyebrow.

Well, according to celeb blogger Perez Hilton who claims to have spoken to an insider, Prince was misquoted: "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," he wrote on his website.

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