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Little Richard Implies He's Not Gay Anymore, Condemns "Unnatural Affection"

"You’ve got to live the way God wants you to live.”

Good golly! It appears that Little Richard no longer identifies as gay, Ebony reports.

During a recent interview with Christian TV and radio network Three Angels Broadcasting, the ’50s rock icon suggested that men should live as men and women should live as women.

“Anybody come in show business, they’re going to say you’re gay," Richard explained. "Are you straight? Are you a homosexual something? They’re going to say it. But God, Jesus, he made men men, he made women women, you know? And you’ve got to live the way God wants you to live.”

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WASHINGTON - JULY 03: Little Richard performs during the annual PBS "A Capitol Fourth" concert at the US Capitol on July 3, 2011 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Paul Morigi/WireImage)

"So much unnatural affection," the 84-year-old “Tutti Frutti” singer lamented. "So much of people just doing everything and don’t think about God. Don’t want no parts of him."

Richard, who was born Richard Wayne Penniman in Georgia and raised in the Pentecostal church, was ordained as a minister in 1970. He no longer wears his signature wigs or makeup.

“I don’t care what you are—He loves you and He can save you," Richard continued. "But we all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. The only holy, righteous person is Jesus and He wants us to be just like Him because, in order to go to heaven, we’ve got to look like Him."

“I don’t want to sing rock and roll no more... I want to be holy like Jesus.”

The musician has certainly changed his tune. In a 2012 GQ interview, Richard said, “We are all both male and female. Sex to me is like a smorgasbord. Whatever I feel like, I go for. What kind of sexual am I? I am omnisexual!” He previously told Penthouse in 1995, “I’ve been gay all my life and I know God is a God of love, not of hate.”

John Waters interviewed the singer for Playboy in 1987. “I love gay people," Richard told Waters. "I believe I was the founder of gay. I’m the one who started to be so bold tellin’ the world... If you let anybody know you was gay, you was in trouble; so when I came out I didn’t care what nobody thought."

RuPaul's Drag Race contestant Kennedy Davenport memorably impersonated Richard during the "Snatch Game."

Watch the 3ABN interview below.

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