Chris Pratt’s week is off to an awkward start.
The new trailer for Thor: Love & Thunder just dropped and everyone’s talking about how his character, Star-Lord, has the hots for Thor, played by Chris Hemsworth. The film is directed by Taika Waititi and hits theaters this summer.
Quick backstory: Star-Lord was revealed to be in a polyamorous bisexual relationship in a 2020 issue of the Guardians of the Galaxy comic. At that point, Pratt, a longtime member of the anti-LGBTQ Christian cult Hillsong Church, had already played the character in the first two Guardians of the Galaxy films in 2014 and 2017, as well as Avengers: Infinity War in 2018 and Avengers: Endgame in 2019.
Related: Marvel confirms: Chris Pratt’s ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ character Star Lord is bisexual
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Hillsong Church was founded by accused child sex predator Frank Houston. Its doctrine believes homosexuality is a sin and conversion therapy is the only way to save gay people from going to hell. Pratt has belonged to the megachurch for several years and has denied it hates queer people despite the fact that it very clearly does.
Some people questioned whether he would return to the franchise after learning his character was bisexual. But apparently he was able to put his staunch religious beliefs aside for the sake of a multi-million dollar paycheck art.
Here’s how people are responding to the new Thor: Love & Thunder trailer…
chris pratt after taika waititi told him he had to do subtley gay scenes with chris hemsworth: pic.twitter.com/qOdkSp1ucd
— n ? ceo of han "leias concubine" solo (@skyswalkerleia) April 18, 2022
marvel trying to restore chris pratt's image by making him gaybait with thor is the worst form of punishment that i can think of. the most annoying fanbase in the world is gonna have him bottoming for thor on ao3 for years to come. my condolences.
— ilikemenom (@xiaojun1000) April 18, 2022
chris pratt fell to the ground and started hyperventilating and vomiting after filming this scene https://t.co/Bp46NNhR8m
— suri (@mengerszhang) April 18, 2022
he’s such a great actor for being able to hold back the homophobia
— suri (@mengerszhang) April 18, 2022
chris pratt when he saw they have made starlord canon bi in the comic and taika was directing his next mcu movie pic.twitter.com/7se3TqIRxK
— marco???? || luke wilson #1 simp (@RT3NENBAUM) April 18, 2022
marvel making CHRIS PRATT part of their next queerbait ship is actually the funniest thing they’ve ever done
— mia? (@wlwbrie) April 18, 2022
chris pratt being forced to play quill now that hes confirmed bi pic.twitter.com/N1n8K8MkPo
— gabe (@penguvn) April 18, 2022
Yeah can I get a uhhhhhhhh thor 4 trailer with uhhhh less Chris Pratt
— prime minister of metalcore (@deads0ul_xiii) April 18, 2022
Please marvel confirm Peter Quill as Bi in the mcu too and make chris pratt mad pic.twitter.com/GDQwd8T6Ug
— athia/hunter ?? (@dilfsstrange) April 18, 2022
love & thunder has so many sexy people and then there's chris pratt
— amaya rambeau ? (@chewiedanvers) April 18, 2022
taika: starlord and thor are gay for each other
chris pratt: sure https://t.co/aRJoffu0dF pic.twitter.com/74xAFh4oPs
— marco???? || luke wilson #1 simp (@RT3NENBAUM) April 18, 2022
THOR GAY FOR STARLORD ????? RIP CHRIS PRATT
— crepe girl // moon knight? (@AngelsCrepes) April 18, 2022
chris pratt seeing y’all make those g*y tweets pic.twitter.com/IsenceDWzE
— ?? (@anyataylorjcy) April 18, 2022
Watch the trailer for Thor: Love & Thunder below.
DarkZephyr
I have never seen or heard of Chris Pratt personally make a homophobic statement. In fact, I only know of the story he has told multiple times about how a gay man helped him get his head shots when he was starting out. I’m not saying that its not problematic that he supports this gross church, but I don’t think he’s the aggressive homophobe that the article and all of these tweets are making him out to be.
smittoons
Agreed. I got tired of seeing Pratt in everything since he doesn’t have much range, but he’s a charismatic and funny performer who I was happily enjoying on Parks and Rec and for a time when he became the IT actor of the moment with GOTG. I don’t care for Pratt pushing his religion so much and the church’s background, but I’ve never gotten the sense he was personally homophobic.
LeBlevsez
He tithes and allows his face to be used for conscription to an organization that tortures queer people. So he’s a passive-aggressive homophobe.
Buy him lunch, if you like. He still deserves derision.
Cam
There are tons of other churches he could have joined in L.A. He chose this particular church and lets them publicize his membership.
If you join the KKK you don’t get to claim you joined for the fun BBQs and didn’t know about the racism.
DuMaurier
@Cam: That’s a simplistic parallel. Nobody joins the Klan unless they subscribe to their racist beliefs. But—for example—there are millions of Catholics who are pro-LGBTQ, pro-choice, etc.
Where this Pratt guy stands on any of this I don’t know, but membership alone doesn’t imply the kind of endorsement you assume.
DarkZephyr
@LeBlevsez
“Buy him lunch” No thanks.
@Cam
As I said, I am not saying that his support of that church isn’t problematic. It is, and his response to the controversy is disappointing. But, I maintain my original stance. I don’t think he’s the aggressive homophobe that the article and the tweets are making him out to be.
ffxv
Was kinda thinkin the same thing. Haven’t seen him be openly anti-gay. I feel like he’s probably not the most important person to be screaming about. I mean I guess I’d the extent of my protesting is bitching about celebs at anti-gay churches on Twitter then sure…otherwise there more important efforts that deserve our energy
Aaron
You can be nice to gay people AND be homophobic at the same time.
Polaro
@DarkZephry I agree with your comment. The rest is self-righteous noise.
BennyTheHill
DarkZephyr:
I concur with you.
I’ve never heard Chris Pratt say anything homophobic.
If everyone is going to be judged by what their religion teaches, then Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi are also homophobes because they refer to themselves as “devout Catholics.”
white-queer-african
And so we have Fake Tits / Twit BennyTheHill, jumping in to spew it’s drivel! Just go away troll.
BennyTheHill
DuMaurier:
I do want to point out one thing: Roman Catholics who attend Mass every Sunday overwhelmingly oppose same sex marriage and abortion.
Accordingly, most Catholics who attend Mass faithfully vote primarily Republican and those Catholics who don’t vote Democrat.
When polls are taken, it’s the non-practicing Catholics who have the liberal views on those issues.
BennyTheHill
white-queer-african
LOL!!!
LeBlevsez
BennyTheMarcy –
Age is still the primary driver of anti-queer sentiment. Catholics under age 70, even those who attend services 50-plus times a year, are overwhelmingly pro-gay marriage. Yes, Overwhelmingly. It’s not until age 70 that support for same-sex marriage falls below 50%. Among all Catholics, 60% of those who attend weekly (or more) support marriage equality. That jumps to nearly 80% among those who attend less frequently.
Frequency of church attendance is a factor among all the Abrahamic faiths as regards support for LGBTQ+ rights. But age is still the most reliable predictor in every demographic.
BennyTheHill
LeBlevsez:
Wrong. You just made that up. Can you give me any citations from OBJECTIVE sources? No. Of course not.
Faithful Catholics who attend Mass every Sunday oppose homosexuality and abortion and generally vote Republican. Conversely, non-practicing Catholics support those things and generally vote Democrat.
Go to Pew Research. the evidence is there.
TMBisAOK
This is no different than a corporation who pays to get anyi-gay politicians elected. They don’t need to say anything anti-gay, they pay so.eone else to do it do they can(try) to keep their hands clean and keep making that money. Itseven worse than just outright saying it! And you support this or don’t want to acknowledge thisfor some reason. Smh
LeBlevsez
>..My apologies if this is a duplicate. I pasted a link and was sent to moderation hell. No pasting this time. Remove any spaces..<
BennyTheHill –
news. gallup. com/poll/322805/catholics-backed-sex-marriage-2011.aspx
This is from a 2-minute Google search. The same Google search revealed a Pew Research study dated 2014 from which, due to the similar numbers, I may have derived my percentages. Can't remember the specific study because of the lot of years that have transpired.
If you are, in good faith (pun intended, good faith doubted), trying to ascertain the views of others, I suggest your sources are citing eastern European Catholics (much more conservative), or possibly Eastern Orthodox church officials (not only anti-gay, but pro-Putin).
BennyTheHill
LeBlevsez
I repeat: FAITHFUL Catholics who attend Mass EVERY Sunday oppose homosexuality and abortion and generally vote Republican. Conversely, non-practicing Catholics support those things and generally vote Democrat. Go to Pew Research. the evidence is there.
LeBlevsez
BennyTheHill –
From the poll I referred to in my previous post, the percentage of Catholics who support same-sex marriage:
>weekly church attendance – 56%
>nearly weekly or monthly – 67%
>seldom attend – 78%.
Based on the importance of their religion in their lives, the percentage of Catholics who support same-sex marriage is:
>very important – 56% (the same % who attend weekly)
>somewhat important – 78%
>not very important – 87%.
Both data sets indicate that a clear majority of Catholics support same-sex marriage. This remains true even when you weed out those for whom religion is not very important.
I assume that since you state the FAITHFUL oppose homosexuality (which initially was a discussion of same-sex marriage), you want to skew the facts by further restricting the pool of Catholics which you cite to those who already agree with your stance. Using this method, I can state with 100% irrefutable certainty that the vast majority of Catholics think BennyTheHill is a 100% moron.
humble charlie
I’ve never gotten the sense that he was “personally homophobic” because, like smittoons, I don’t know him at all. But he may be “personally homophobic”; I just don’t know about it.
Max
an ant-LGBTQ church established by a child sex predator where lots of people and celebs are worshipping at. WTF man.
Mister P
No one in the church, including Pratt care about LGBTQ issues one way or the other. The church is using homophobia to raise money because it works. Pratt will take a well paying role because he cares more about the money than anything.
Cam
If nobody cared about it, how can it be used to raise money?
Also, the LGBTQ community is always far more forgiving of this B.S. than others. If there was a church preaching racism, people wouldn’t expect Latinos or Black people to not be concerned about it because “They were just using it to raise money”.
dbmcvey
You contradict yourself.
Mister P
My point was only that they are worshiping dollars rather than a god.
Mack
Isn’t that true of 99.999999999% of the churches?
powersthatbe
Chris Pratt’s disgust in his tone when delivering that line is all the confirmation I needed. They could have had a lot of fun with it, but instead, it’s just the absolute delight that is Chris Hemsworth who makes it. Hopefully Marvel will come to their senses and cut free someone who belongs to a church who is not 3008, but more 2000 and late.
cneal1981
Homosexuality is not Bisexuality. The Chris Pratt church teaches that homosexuals need to become Bisexuals to get into heaven. It probably teaches that heterosexuals need to become Bisexuals before getting into heaven. A transgender man who does not date women is homosexual.
Diplomat
Haha too funny. Did u read that in a comic book or are you test casing to write it yourself?
whereshouldistart
Chris Pratt as Starlord is the worst casting mistake in history.
He couldn’t act his way out of a paper bag and he has the IQ of a broom handle.
powersthatbe
*raofpmsl*
Broom handle. Brilliant. Major Lol’d.
Polaro
I think he is good in the role. You do realize he is playing a comic book character, right?
justyouandi
Chris Pratt doesn’t go to Hillsong Church and I’m not sure he ever did. Granted, he does go to a church very much like Hillsong, but in the interest of complete accuracy you can’t connect him to Hillsong.
LeBlevsez
His attendance of services and other events at Hillsong, his photos with the hierarchy of Hillsong, and his statements regarding his association with Hillsong would indicate that maybe your statement isn’t entirely accurate.
Again, maybe know a little something before you opine.
Essie
Pratt DOES belong to Hillsong. He has been defending his membership in that church for years. I know this and I barely know who Chris Pratt is. I think you should maybe Google Pratt and Hillsong and see what you come up with.
ShiningSex
either way, he’s a douche
justyouandi
Pratt has attended a church called Zoe (pronounced zo-AY) for years, and frequently shows up at ChurchHome at their once-a-week Wednesday night service.
johncp56
Is there anything to say!! him just being part of a hateful hohmphobic nontax paying church is enough
JED08
Why must they ruin Thor for me by placing Chris Pratt in it? He might play charismatic characters on the screen, but I’ve concluded that in real life he’s a douche and I don’t watch projects that he’s in anymore.
PinkoOfTheGange
Go help a homeless queer and stop with the woke-backside-poo of twiter-torching some guy that makes comic book movies that has never hurt any of you.
Pratt is part of the Zoe Church. which has no known official ties to Hillsong. The closest is a 2015 Blog post from Hillsong calling Zoe “family”. Zoe and it’s pastor Veach are oddly silent on their opinions of d’gehyz, but nothing comes up in searches of either, other than the tenuous link to Hillsong and Hillsong’s anti LGBTQ acts. So all we got on Zoe’s GLBTQ position is “(crickets)” and tar off a very wide brush.
The “leaders” of Hillsong that made anti-GLBTQ statements in the past have been fired or stepped down for being fornicators this year. This is after Huston stepped away from the alter after being charged for covering up his dad’s predilection for under age sex. 9 of its 16 state-side churches have broken ties with the Aussie based mother house. Zoe does not count as one of the 16.
TLDR: Pratt isn’t a member of Hillsong.
humble charlie
Give Huston’s dad a break. After all, god probably told him it was ok to do it. Isn’t it also ok’d in the bible, the turd of god.
ShiningSex
Pratt is a douchebag. Who cares about him?
Lenny
I think that as soon as he gets his multi million dollar paycheck he’ll get his homophobia back. He still hasn’t decided which way to go – gay or “straight” !!
nm4047
It’s a character out of a Marvel movie (made by Disney subsidiary, there’s where the conversation should focus) It’s not Shakespeare nor has he ever been considered to be an acting giant, just a character actor in a make believe world. Boycott the film (and franchise) if you are so pissed off with Pratt.
bachy
Remember when women, POC and gays were blamed for everything that was wrong with the world? I guess if you live long enough, everyone eventually gets to be The Scapegoat.
Nowadays it looks like we’re now hanging the blame for all the world’s ills on Beefy White Dudes. Colton Haynes, Pietro Boselli, Chris Pratt, etc.
Makes me wonder: is pointing the finger really a solution? Or is scapegoating just a shit, outdated way of addressing problems?
[email protected]
What is even worse is that the Hillsong Church (Pentecostal) believes creationism and intelligent design should be taught in schools.
I can understand be anti gay but creationism and intelligent design? What an idiot.
DreamRZA
Just sometimes, Queerty writers are the hate-mongers, with twisted facts.
Do some fact checking please.
“ Frank Houston founded Sydney Christian Life Centre, which would eventually come under the leadership of his son Pastor Brian Houston before merging into Hillsong Church.”
alexpof
he is handsome and charismatic and the film is gonna a be a huge success i dont think he carea about what a bunch of offended fragil people have to say on twitter about him
bsg1967
Either a lot of Chris Pratt, Hillsong fanboys in the comments or lots of paid comments
humble charlie
Chris seems to be going for the Tony Bennett toupee award. Pretty soon Lady Gaga will show up and feed him Gerber’s strained prunes.