An actress who made anti-gay comments lost a role. Now she’s suing for ‘religious discrimination.’

An actress who lost a role after she was caught making anti-gay comments plans to sue for religious discrimination.

This past March, someone found a Facebook post from 2014 where the actress Seyi Omooba wrote that homosexuality goes against “the word of God.”

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“I do not believe you can be born gay, and I do not believe homosexuality is right, though the law of this land has made it legal doesn’t mean it’s right,” she wrote in the post.

“I do believe that everyone sins and falls into temptation but it’s by the asking of forgiveness, repentance and the grace of God that we overcome and live how God ordained us to, which is that a man should leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife and they shall become one flesh.”

A screenshot of the Facebook post
A screenshot of the Facebook post Twitter/@aleelambert

She was preparing for the role of Celie in the musical The Color Purple at the Curve Theatre in Leicester, UK. The character Celie has a relationship with another woman.

Omooba was removed from the role because of her Facebook post in March.

Now she says that she’s planning to sue for religious discrimination because she…

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