Religious Right activist and former Republican state legislator Gordon Klingenschmitt is not very happy with a speech that pop singer Katy Perry delivered last month at a Human Rights Campaign gala, in which she recounted having grown up in a conservative Christian environment where she was taught that “homosexuality was synonymous with the word abomination” and where attendees at the “Jesus camps” she attended were encouraged to “[pray] the gay away.”
Perry no longer hold such views and Klingenschmitt says that he knows why: She is “ruled by Satan.”
“If you had been sincere in your prayers at the Jesus camps, you would have prayed against sin and the devil,” Klingenschmitt said on a recent episode of his “Pray In Jesus Name” program. “You would have repented of your sin and invited Jesus to rule your heart. But apparently that’s not what you prayed.”
After declaring that that Perry is now “ruled by Satan,” Klingenschmitt offered her some helpful advice: “Katy Perry, you don’t just need more of your Jesus camps, more of the Bible, more of what your parents told you; you need to get the devil out of you.”
