Pop Star Comes Out, Causes Outrage By Having Sex With Priest In NSFW Video

[gaynight]

Pop Star Comes Out, Causes Outrage By Having Sex With Priest In NSFW Video
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tooji-video-sex-church_us_55772f17e4b06bc0463bad3c

A Norwegian pop star came out as gay in a new NSFW music video featuring simulated gay sex with a priest, and the Church of Norway is fuming.

Tooji, a Iranian-Norwegian singer living in Norway and a participant in the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest, came out when announcing the release of his new music video titled "The Father Project."

My new video Father is Out, and so am I! http://t.co/pfoGKM8ovx

— Tooji (@Tooji_) June 8, 2015

The video shows Tooji enter a church and proceed to have simulated sex with the priest in front of a congregation. But the Church of Norway is not pleased with Tooji's artistic choices. In a statement published Sunday, the bishop of Oslo condemned the video as a desecration.

"No matter what the video's message might be or who the artist might be, footage of intimate scenes in front of the altar is unacceptable, and it is an abuse of the church," he said in a Norwegian ​statement translated by The Huffington Post. "I was informed about the matter after they decided to rent out Frogner Church and had done the shoot. No matter what the content of the video might be, it is not acceptable to perform these types of scenes in front of the altar. It is a misuse of the holy room of the church."

The bishop added that this would hold true if a straight couple was featured in the same manner in the video.

"A scene shot between a man and a woman would also be unacceptable," he added. "What has happened breaks several rules of the church. Besides this, I would not comment any further on the matter."

Tooji is an advocate for equal rights. In a separate video, he spoke out against religious theology that claims God does not accept gay people.

"I want to stand out as an example and let my voice be heard for all those voices mute, for all those who feel ashamed with their beliefs, that are told that God doesn't accept them," he said. "Let me tell you: You are a part of God and what you have is the purest gift. Any love between two grown-up, consenting adults – no matter gender, no matter race -- is pure ... I am gay and I stand up for my rights and that is why I made the video 'Father.'"

[sergiors]

#BOLLOCKS Madonna did it first.  >:D

[popsy619]

It's just a video clip that he promoted last year… And actually, nobody gives a damn for Tooji after he flopped badly in Eurovision.

[gfootx]

@popsy619:

It's just a video clip that he promoted last year… And actually, nobody gives a damn for Tooji after he flopped badly in Eurovision.

He is quite sexy though !

[gfootx]

Horrible music

[pornofan]

Happy to accept support from most anyone, irrespective of how much talent they might actually have. A forum is a forum, an audience is an audience, and the more people who come out loud and proud, the easier it is for others to follow and the harder for bullies and bastards to find support. Bruce Springsteen just canceled a concert in fobic North Carolina. The Rolling Stones, making a different and unrelated political statement, just gave a free concert in Havana.

As for whether Madonna did it first, even if she came out of the closet in Norway and I missed it, not sure the point of the news story is that the dude was first, but that he has joined the growing tide of people who openly and conspicuously don't give a shit about the ignorant opinions of others except to condemn all such instances of recto-cranial inversion.

[shynquietguy]

He's an Iranian-Norwegian and he did this?

I wonder how many hit lists he's on now.

[JACK777]

wow

[eboy10]

The most shocking thing about this story is that no one figured out he's gay before the video, you could see it during his eurovision performance.

[Bengalis]

I read about this.