Pat Boone calls 'SNL' skit an 'outright sacrilege'

Veteran singer-actor Pat Boone expressed his disagreement toward the way a popular sketch comedy show presented Christianity.

"God has a sense of humor. Why else would he invent the porcupine and the giraffe?" Boone said during an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. "Something can be devilishly funny, but this skit is diabolical."

Boone was speaking of the way "Saturday Night Live" made a parody of the Christian film "God's Not Dead 2." The film centers on a high school teacher who gets sued for answering a student's question about Jesus. "SNL's" version comes in the form of a trailer for "God is Boob Man," showing a a small-town baker whose "faith" is tested when a gay couple asks her to make their wedding cake. When she refuses, she is taken to court. The pressure is on for her to say that "God is gay," but she insists that God is straight. At the end of the trailer, she declares to everyone in the courtroom, "God is boob-man!"

During the interview, the 81-year-old television personality said that Satan -- God's only real enemy -- ridicules faith and, apparently, the show is taking Satan's side. Christians deserve an apology, although he's not demanding one from the network, the show, or the executive producer, nor is he expecting it. He said that they don't answer to him but they "answer to the one they defame, and there are consequences."

Boone admitted to having enjoyed "SNL" before, although he stopped because it has "gotten filthy." Now, he said, they stepped over the line. He also said that the people behind the show are cowardly because they poke fun at Christians, confident that there will be no reprisal.

"This skit was outright sacrilege," he said. "They know if they did this to Muslims they'd have to be put into the witness protection program."

The Christian songwriter and author also said that at SNL, nothing is sacred apart from "maybe the words 'Mohammad' or 'Allah.'"

"They'd never take those names in vain, but when they called God a 'boob man,' they took his name in vain," he said.

Boone, who plays Walter Wesley in "God's Not Dead 2," has received criticism for his views on the "SNL" skit.