--- title: Real Housewives' Porsha Williams Apologizes For Anti-Gay Speech description: The Real Housewives of Atlanta's Porsha Williams has apologized for a sermon she gave three years ago that included comments criticized as anti-gay. "My heart... canonical: https://time.com/90833/porsha-williams-apologizes/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-07T17:06:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T07:42:05.771Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Real Housewives' Porsha Williams Apologizes For Anti-Gay Speech og:description: The Real Housewives of Atlanta's Porsha Williams has apologized for a sermon she gave three years ago that included comments criticized as anti-gay. 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"My heart... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltadb07c61c7bcaf1f/69868e38e8524bb840602bf9/porsha-williams-1280x720.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _Real Housewives'_ Porsha Williams Apologizes For Anti-Gay Speech by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video May 7, 2014 5:06 PM UTC  Wilford Harewood - NBC Universal by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video May 7, 2014 5:06 PM UTC _The Real Housewives of Atlanta’s_ Porsha Williams has [apologized](http://www.people.com/article/porsha-williams-apologizes-anti-gay-sermon-video) for a sermon she gave three years ago that included comments criticized as anti-gay. “My heart was heavy and it’s imperative for me to address the issue,” Williams says in a video message released to _People_ Wednesday. “God loves all of his children.” Williams, 31, has been widely criticized after a controversial sermon she gave three years ago [recently resurfaced online](http://www.tmz.com/2014/05/05/porsha-williams-evangelist-rant-gays-lesbians-video-church/). “We Christians are supposed to be telling the hooker on the street, the drug dealer … the gays, the lesbians – we’re supposed to be trying to save them and tell them, ‘You are worthy,'” she said in the footage, posted Monday by [TMZ](http://www.tmz.com/2014/05/05/porsha-williams-evangelist-rant-gays-lesbians-video-church/). 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