India Love is receiving criticism for having made statements in one of her videos where she wished that her ex-best friend, who happens to be gay, could change his sexuality in order to go to heaven.
India Love, who uses the mononym India Love, gained popularity on BET’s The Westbrooks. In her video, India shared how she and her friend hadn’t spoken for days until they were brought together through an altar call at church.
“You go to a church over here and, um, you know, they do an altar call at the end. I just randomly looked up, and he’s right next to me. I’m like, ‘Oh my God.’ We had, like, to stop talking for a few nights and s***, OK, and then God brought us back together,” Love said.
The influencer pointed out videos on TikTok of people, formerly gay, but now married with their children, claiming it was the route leading to heaven.
“Because I feel like you can’t … there is so, there is so many people I see on TikTok that used to be a former blah blah blah, and now they’re married with kids,” Love said. “Like, I feel like that’s supposed to happen. I want him to go to heaven.”
While she admitted it might sound insensitive to many, she said it matters to her personally.
“And, like, you know, it is, it’s, I mean, I’m being honest. Is this bad? OK, I don’t want to talk about it. I don’t want to talk about it, but it’s serious, especially with people that I love, you know?” she said. “Like, it’s according to the Bible; this is what it’s gonna be. Yeah. And, like, I don’t mean to be, like, touchy on the subject, but, like, I want my friends, my people, to understand what it is. That’s what God, yeah, that’s what God.”
The influencer’s comments went viral online, prompting criticism that she was hypocritical because she had made similar posts before.
One critic was an influencer named Ash Kash.
“You can’t bully somebody into heaven, especially when you don’t even know if you’re on the guest list,” Ash Kash tweeted.
Although there were some who supported her opinion, stating that it is her own personal faith and that she could have it, the majority of the commenters questioned her on why she ended her relationship over the sexuality of a peer.
