Canadian out actress Ellen Page has expressed her outrage over a recent royal honoree.
Queen Elizabeth II is 88, so it’d be understandable for her judgment to slip here and there, but then there’s also that thing (you know the one) when you’re the Queen where you have a whole staff of smart people around you to help out with all that medal-giving and knighting.
So it is perhaps baffling why the Queen decided to honor Northern Irish politician Maurice Mills, a man with a record of saying things like the spread of AIDS in Africa is the result of the “filthy practice of sodomy.” Not to be confused with the sounds of sodomy, also an Irish phenomenon.
Ellen fired off this tweet:
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“The Queen honored a politician who blamed Hurricane Katrina & AIDS on LGBT people: http://t.co/XoemvNNz1w pic.twitter.com/dYn21wIZuD” fuck that
— Ellen Page (@EllenPage) January 5, 2015
It’s since been retweeted over 4,300 times, and Mills issued the following response in the News Letter:
“I welcome the scrutiny of anybody.
These people are making judgment on a person when they haven’t a clue about his background or what the position is.
I’m not getting into a mix about that. My position is taken from the word of God and I’ll obviously not be moving from that, it’s as simple as that.
I said this could be a warning, just as God has done countless times through the ages.”
It’s ironic that he was recognized on the “New Year’s Honours” list. It’s 2015 — time to stop throwing around language like “AIDS is a warning from God to quit all that gay stuff,” and expect to be taken seriously by the world.
We’re with you on this one, Ellen.
Clark35
Who cares what Ellen Page thinks she was closeted for years even though everyone knew she was Lesbian.
She can’t act her way out of a paper bag and her “career” or what’s left of it is basically done, not because she’s out as lesbian; but because she can’t act.
Tobi
Oh, it’s only an MBE, Betty doles that one out to the palace cleaners for long service. 😉
Kieran
So the queen of England has given a royal honor to one of her staunchly Protestant Unionist DUP bigots in Northern Ireland. I wonder what clinched the award for him, his animosity toward his Catholic or his gay neighbors? Perhaps both? No matter, as long as he’s loyal to the Crown.
I think we all know what Maurice can do with his medal and ribbon.
Clark35
@Kieran: Nobody cares about Northern Ireland, except for silly Catholic sheep.
demented
I don’t think she even makes any decisions about who gets honored. It’s probably just decided by someone with actual clout in the government, and they give it to her to do. The monarchy makes absolutely no decisions these days.
@Kieran: What, you expect them to give a damn about a country and a religion they have oppressed for so long?
DuMaurier
demented, there actually isn’t any question about the queen’s role in deciding honors like this: it’s zero. The government decides these things and the queen has no independent choice in the matter; as was once said, the British monarch would have to sign his or her own death warrant if that’s what the Prime Minister decreed.
demented
@DuMaurier: So you are saying that Ellen Page is a moron, huh?
Persa
@Clark35:
1) You sound crazy. If her opinion doesn’t matter, why you mad?
2) As a citizen of Canada Ellen Page has every right to have an opinion on what The Queen does or doesn’t do. Honoring a homophobic asshat SHOULD be called out and good for her for speaking up.
3) She’s fucking 27 years old and has been out for 3 years. She came out decades earlier than most gay or lesbian actors/actresss and she didn’t have to be dragged. People are allowed to come out when they want. That is every fucking gay or lesbian human’s right.
4) She has been cast in high profile movies literally every single year since 2000, has two films in post production and 1 film currently filming.
5) She’s an Oscar nominee (among many other honors).
6) A whole helluva lot of people care more about what SHE thinks than will ever care what YOU think and by speaking up she brings attention to something a lot of young folks might not notice and can now speak out about.
In conclusion, you can shut your sexist, ignorant hole because you don’t know what you’re talking about.
demented
@Persa: No, she has been out for less than a year.
billforsyth
The Queen of the United Kingdom is a constitutional monarch .It is the British government which hands out these honours after recommendations submitted by the general public .The political honours are recommended to the Prime minister by various party leaders and have nothing to do with the Queen .
jason smeds
I would not be surprised if Maurice Mills has had a homosexual experience. As for the Queen, her judgment is slipping. She’s always been very conservative, however. I’d classify her as a social conservative.
jar
Good on you, Ellen. The fact that Canada still has this freeloading welfare bitch on their money is why they’re not taken seriously. Only the always looking backwards English would still allow themselves to be “subjects” of a monarch. If it weren’t for their bloodthirst they would have never had an empire.
darylsmith
God gave up on this Mills idiot a long time ago.
ScottOnEarth
@Tobi: LOL. Cute!!!