Prince Denounces Gay Marriage to New Yorker

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The New Yorker recently came out with an at-home interview piece on Prince. During the interview, Prince denounced gay marriage in no uncertain terms.

What could have been a simple, hairy situation became downright shaggy when he threw politics into the mix. Democrats hold views that generally clash with the teachings of the Bible, he said, and Republicans don’t.

Prince recently converted to Jehovah’s Witness

The artist formerly known as formerly-known-as-Prince (now he’s Prince again) was recently converted into the fold of Jehovah’s Witnesses. “I don’t see it really as a conversion,” he told the New Yorker. “More, you know, it’s a realization. It’s like Morpheus and Neo in ‘The Matrix.’” Okay. We’ll accept that.

The whole thing happened after two years of debating with his friend Larry Graham-also a musician. Now Prince, like the others of his kind that you’ve closed your blinds and hid behind your couch from, ventures outside of his gated community sometimes to go door-knocking.

“Sometimes people act surprised,” he said, “but mostly they’re really cool about it.”

Rather startling terms

He gave his opinion to the New Yorker in startling terms. “God came to Earth and saw people sticking it wherever and doing it with whatever, and he just cleared it all out,” he said. “He was, like, ‘Enough’.”

He soon forayed into politics: “So here’s how it is: you’ve got the Republicans; basically they want to live according to this-” he pointed to a Bible on a table- “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.”

“Teaching experience”

He offered a story-validating, in a sense, his openness to “teaching experiences.”

“There was this woman. She used to come to Paisley Park and just sit outside on the swings,” he said. “So I went out there one day and I was, like, ‘Hey, all my friends in there say you’re a stalker. And that I should call the police. But I don’t want to do that, so why don’t you tell me what you want to happen. Why are you here? How do you want this to end?’ And she didn’t really have an answer for that. In the end, all she wanted was to be seen, for me to look at her. And she left and didn’t come back.”

Good story, Prince.

Whatever your political leanings

Whatever your political leanings, if you’ve got any religious ones, and towards Christianity, you must be feeling a sense of ironic dismay in getting this kind of support from “a small fifty-year-old man in yoga pants and a big sweater, wearing platform flip-flops over white socks, like a geisha,” living in a house bespattered with purple.

Really, Prince. No thanks, Prince. We always sorta thought you were gay, Prince.

The rumble of response

Obviously the response has begun to rumble; bloggers are outraged; Perez Hilton dedicated a piece to refuting even the validity of the interview. It’s not so surprising, not even really that unfortunate–because to hear him state his opinion so emphatically without tact is, actually, a little refreshing.

It’s like when Tom Cruise starts getting all crazy on us… at least he cares enough to say something that no one will ever agree with and stick to it, right?