Ellen Page Slams Queen Over MBE Given To Anti-Gay Politician

Ellen Page has slammed the Queen’s decision to award an MBE to Maurice Mills, the Northern Ireland politician who blamed Hurricane Katrina on the lesbian and gay community.

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In a short but to-the-point tweet, the actress posted a link to a story about Mills being awarded the honour, with the suffix ‘f**k that’, along with a picture of the Queen.

Mills, who is a Democratic Unionist Party councillor for Ballymena, and was given the MBE for ‘services to local government’, said of the 2005 disaster:

“The media failed to report that the hurricane occurred just two days prior to the annual homosexual event called the Southern Decadence festival which the previous year had attracted an estimated 125,000 people.

“Surely this is a warning to nations where such wickedness is increasingly promoted and practised.”

Some 1,833 people died as a result of the flooding in and around New Orleans caused by the hurricane.

It’s not the only matter he’s weighed in on.

On the spread of AIDS in Africa, he also blamed gays, saying: “This abominable and filthy practice of sodomy has resulted in the great continent of Africa being riddled with Aids.”

Page came out at a conference for LGBT teenagers in Las Vegas last year, and it’s not the first time she’s clashed with homophobic attitudes on Twitter.

In March last year, just weeks after she had come out, she shamed a pastor who had got in touch with her to offer her ‘salvation’ over her sexuality.

“Being gay isn’t a belief,” she wrote.

“My soul isn’t struggling & I don’t want arms of Heavenly Father around me. A girls arms? Yes.”

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