Katy Perry delivered a powerful speech at the Human Rights Campaigns annual gala in Los Angeles last month, where she opened up about her sexuality and recalled her early years in a conservative Christian environment in whichhomosexuality was synonymous with the word abomination.Picking up HRCs National Equality Award, the singer nodded to the real-life experience that inspired one of her biggest hits, noting, I kissed a girl and I liked it. Truth be told, I did more than that.At first, she attempted to pray the gay away at my Jesus camps, but eventually discovered that the LGBTQ community was made up of the most free, strong, kind and inclusive people I have ever met.Perrys candid remarks have drawn national praise, but one former Colorado legislator believes the singers speech is evidence that she is ruled by Satan.Gordon Klingenschmitt, who was elected to the Colorado House of Representatives in 2014 but failed in his state Senate bidlast year, blasted Perry on the April 9 installment of his Pray In Jesus Name radio program, Right Wing Watch reported.You dont just need more of your Jesus camps, more of the Bible, more of what your parents told you, Klingenschmitt said on his program, a clip of which can be viewed above. You need to get the devil out of you. He then offered a prayer for Perry, noting, We pray that she will be saved, that she will be born again, that she will repent of her sin and stop promoting sin to young people.As far as anti-LGBTQ statements are concerned, however,Klingenschmitt is a repeat offender. In December, he cited an inclusive Zales Jewelers holiday commercial as evidence of a demonic spirit who had inhabited the advertising executives who had created the ad.He alsoblasted the Boy Scouts of America for thumbing their nose at God in 2015 for promoting homosexual men to mentoring and camping with your boys after the scouting organization lifted a controversial ban on openly gay adult participants.Was Perrys speech really worthy of this brouhaha' Watch an excerpt below and decide for yourself.function onPlayerReadyVidible(e){'undefined'!=typeof HPTrack&&HPTrack.Vid.Vidible_track(e)}!function(e,i){if(e.vdb_Player){if('object'==typeof commercial_video){var a='',o='m.fwsitesection='+commercial_video.site_and_category;if(a+=o,commercial_video['package']){var c='&m.fwkeyvalues=sponsorship%3D'+commercial_video['package'];a+=c}e.setAttribute('vdb_params',a)}i(e.vdb_Player)}else{var t=arguments.callee;setTimeout(function(){t(e,i)},0)}}(document.getElementById('vidible_1'),onPlayerReadyVidible); For the latest in LGBTQ entertainment, check out the Queer Voices newsletter. -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
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