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La’Porsha receives backlash for referring to homosexuality as a “lifestyle” that she “doesn’t agree” with.

During a conference call interview La’Porsha was asked for her thoughts on Mississippi’s controversial House Bill 1523, which allows people with faith-based objections to deny wedding services to same-sex couples.

First La’Porsha said she didn’t know anything about the so-called Religious Liberty bill in her hometown of Mississippi which was signed into law on April 5. She did give her personal thoughts saying, “Although all of us may not agree with that particular lifestyle for religious reasons, whatever the reason is, you still treat each other with respect. Everybody is a human being. We should be able to coexist with one another.”

She went on to say, “I am one of the people who don’t really agree with that lifestyle. I wasn’t brought up that way. It wasn’t how I was raised.”  Renae says she has “a lot of friends and a lot of people that I love dearly who are gay and homosexual and they’re such sweet, nice people.” She added, “We should just respect each other’s differences and opinions and move on.”

Her remarks set off many angry remarks on social media.

Read more at eurweb.com

 

 

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