Michelle Shocked - Shocked With Christian Disavowal of Sinful Lesbian Love

The modestly popular singer Michelle Shocked injured her career in 2013 when she ended a concert by making strange statements about being gay. During the encore at the end of her show before an audience of a couple of hundred she said 'God hates fags' and other seemingly Right Wing Christian anti-gay comments. People in the audience where taking videos that were soon uploaded to the internet where many where, shocked, shocked! During her salad days in the 1980's Michelle Shocked was the darling of a pro-gay rights audience and toured with perennial UK Leftist Billy Bragg. She did not have so many hits lately, and basically toured for an aging audience from the past at small venues of a couple of hundred. But, that was before her rant. The interview below shows the inability of the main stream and even alternative media to grasp some of the simple elements of the story. They keep asking this artist who is known for her strange way with words 'Are you homophobic?' She answers 'no.' That is not the kind of question to ask a Christian who believes that gay sexual activity is a sin. Here's Piers Morgan acting as prosecutor to get a confession from Michelle Shocked in an interview published on 1 April 2013 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27_OAk2AWMg



What a bizarre interview. P. Morgan refuses to simply let the story unfold. A post-fifty woman who was famous for singing songs about women in heat for women is now no longer interested in women. In her forties she began going to a Christian church and trying to live a Christian life. The interviewer wants to emphasize the application of a label to Ms. Shocked. He wants to question her as a prosecutor with a defendant on trial for being 'homophobic' - having an irrational fear of same gender sex and romance and coupling.

Michelle shocked says she is a church going Christian who believes in Jesus Christ and his teachings. Was Jesus homophobic? Are the teachings of the Bible, along with the Old Testament, homophobic? Morgan doesn't back up and ask if Ms. Shocked adopted a traditional Christian view of homosexuality. He simply wants to nail her down and get her to say she is afraid of homosexuality. Notice Morgan does not ask her if she is in favor of equal rights for gays. No, he demands more. Michelle Shocked is expected to 'celebrate' gay love, or be labelled a 'homophobe.'

Of course the back story is that Michelle Shocked rose to fame on the strength of her being a gay woman singing some songs about Lesbian love. She has talent as a singer and moved from a niche audience to a wider public and then was back to a niche audience. But the audience she had in 150 seat alternative music venues was going to see her not just to hear her songs but as a political and social statement of solidarity with gay women and gay rights and a celebration of gay love.

But Michelle Shocked has always had a different way of thinking and an artistic ability to see things her own way and create her own narrative explanation of what was going on in the world, and with herself. She is hard to follow for many. She is no slave to Aristotle's logic.

She says in the interview that she has been in love with a man for the last ten or twelve years. Is she cryptically referring to Jesus Christ? Piers Morgan is hardly listening to her because he wants to force her to 'come out' as a gay-hater on his show and because of his skillful lawyer like questions. He is not interested in the mystery and riddles this woman presents.

Michelle Shocked wanted to express herself to her audience as an artist and as who she is now. She is a fifty-something woman who probably has passed through menopause and may have a decreased interest in sexual activity. Anyone who knows something about women, or about aging might have taken that into consideration. Historically more than one women's issues leaders have started out in their 20's advocating 'free love' and ended up advocating celibacy when they are in their 50's. Never crosses Piers Morgan's mind or apparently the cheerleaders of Michelle Shocked's audience.

When she was cancelled at one venue that booked an openly supportive gay rights band in her place Michelle Shocked went to the club that night and tried to get in and was speaking to patrons. She was dressed all in white and brought a guitar and sang some of her songs outside the club.

Perhaps this woman always had bizarre personal behavior issues that the audience embrace or ignored - as long as she was an out loud and proud Lesbian. But once she stopped doing that, she's just an oddball Christian who had some hit singles a couple of decades ago. Can she get work on a Christian sinners tour?

Of course anyone being shocked by what Michelle Shocked does... didn't her name warn everyone?