A drag queen known by day as Father
Anthony to his congregation has come out gay with a hit dance single.
Big Mama Capretta's new video Big
Mama's House is currently at 25 on the U.S. Billboard Club Play dance
chart and has been viewed over 57,000 times on the video sharing
website YouTube.
“It's Big Mama y'all!,” Father
Anthony, also known as Vincent Capretta, says in a statement. “And
I am no longer afraid to come out of the closet as a gay Catholic
priest!”
“Thank you everyone for buying,
playing, and charting Big Mama's House. I am living proof that a
person can do anything they set their mind to. We have to love and
enjoy ourselves in this world. And, I am enjoying my life being who
I am and who God intended me to be!” Capretta says, then adds,
“Now, let's DANCE y'all!”
Capretta ministers to his flock at Thee
Manor of Lady Jane Grey chapel in Columbus, Ohio.
Religious bloggers immediately pounced
on Capretta's Catholic claims. “The good news is that he's not a
Roman Catholic,” Rod Dreher said in blog post at beliefnet.com,
“but a priest of the Old Catholic order, a tiny sect not in
communion with Rome.”
“He's been wanting to be a star all
his life,” a former friend who asked to remain anonymous told On
Top Magazine.