Mo’Nique talks to The Advocate about gays and church: “God don’t make no mistakes, baby”

Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, and Katharine Hepburn could all come back from the dead to do battle on Oscar night, and they still might have trouble ripping that gold statuette from Mo’Nique’s clutches for her role in Precious.

A lifelong supporter of gay causes and AIDS awareness, the sassy woman who once shouted “skinny bitches are evil” from the mountaintops found time to chat it up with Advocate.com about Precious, her talk show, and homophobia in the church.

Here are some excerpts:

On gays and church: “Now, I know a lot of folks that go to church and are gay. I tell them, “God don’t make no mistakes, baby, and we keep using it when it’s convenient.” If we are all made in his image, there are no mistakes. I think it’s absolute foolishness, just in my humble opinion, when people make statements like, “It’s blasphemy and you’re going to hell!” Really? And I’m a child of God — do you think God set me up? I’ve never bought in to it. With gays and church, I think there are so many of our brothers and sisters that’s in pain because they go to a place to receive nurturing, the love of God, and you start hearing that you’re going to hell because of who you were made to be. I just don’t buy that!”

On her days working at a phone-sex company when women called looking to chat with other women: Well, I was inside of the operation. I didn’t actually talk to the people. I actually had to connect the call and make sure you were doing the call properly! Yes, honey! Now, did women ever call in? Yes! I was like, “Go ahead, girl — do you! Ain’t nobody judging you! Get your money’s worth!” If the sex operator wasn’t doing it right, I would pick up the phone and say, “Listen! You’re not doing this right!” [Laughs]

The song to be played when she arrives in heaven: Wow! “Move, bitch, get out the way” — no! [Laughs] I would say Jill Scott’s “Golden.”