Poet Laureate’s lament for the Orlando dead… by declaring God is gay
by Jonathan Petre, Mail on Sunday:
She has been lambasted for ignoring her Royal role by preferring to write about gas meters rather than the Queen’s 90th birthday. Now Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy is risking even more criticism by declaring: ‘God is gay.’
The claim appears in a new poem she has written in the wake of the massacre of 49 people in a gay club in Orlando, Florida, last weekend.
In the 19-line verse, Dame Carol expresses her sympathy for the gay community by listing a range of people who are gay, including priests, farmers, teachers, politicians, doctors and judges.
She completes the verse, titled Gay Love, with the lines: ‘The actress is gay; spotlit in the smash-hit play; the butcher, the baker, the candlestick-maker; our children, are gay. And God is gay.’
The poem has already been criticised on Twitter, with one contributor posting: ‘Fair play to Carol Ann Duffy for writing a poem as bad as any atrocity to occur in the 21st Century.’
Leading clerics have also questioned her grasp of theology, while praising her desire to sympathise with the gay community.
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