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Michelle Shocked.

Singer Michelle Shocked, perhaps best known for her 1990s alternative folk-rock tunes including "Anchorage," stunned her fans at a San Francisco concert on Sunday night with an anti-homosexuality rant, according to several sources. 

"When they stop Prop 8 and force priests at gunpoint to marry gays, it will be the downfall of civilization and Jesus will come back," Shocked said, according to concert attendee and reviewer James Patterson from The Bay Area Reporter. "I believe the Bible is the word of God."

Though her first hour-plus set at Yoshi's at the Fillmore went off without incident, at one point Shocked paused to read some tweets and, after hearing a request for a gospel song, said "I love me some Jesus." After an intermission, she returned for the second set and began her much-discussed rant to the audience. Then, after offering up a prayer in Spanish and English, she told the crowd, "You are going to leave here and tell people 'Michelle Shocked said God hates f------s.'"

Management ended the show after that, according to Patterson, cutting off her microphone and stage lights, though Shocked "continued to sing for her few remaining fans," he noted.

Since her rant, multiple venues have canceled planned shows by Shocked. Meander's Kitchen in Seattle wrote on its Facebook page: "Meander's Kitchen will not be hosting Michelle Shocked for her April 26th performance in Seattle due to her homophobic performance in San Francisco last night, during which she actually said 'God Hates F---.' " The venue added that it would be hosting a benefit for its favorite gay youth organizations instead that evening.

Music magazine Billboard confirmed on Tuesday that 10 out of 11 of her upcoming shows have since been canceled by venues that had been set to host the musician. 

Fans have gone on the offensive against Shocked on Twitter. Noted @LisaHubbert, "It's clear she's had a breakdown. Her career is over, so she's gotten what is deserved." Added Matt Penfield (@TheGuapo), who had been live-tweeting the show from the stage, "Very hard to make sense out of what happened. Feels like we were (very briefly) emotional hostages."

Part of the outrage stems from Shocked's long history as both a musician and a personality; throughout her career she's kept her sexuality ambiguous and only occasionally directly addressed lesbianism (as in a 1990 interview in Outlines). Over the years she's developed a strong following among the LGBT community. But  in an interview with gay newspaper the Dallas Voice in 2008 spoke about sexual politics and being born-again. 

"There are some inconvenient truths that I’m now a born again, sanctified, saved-in-the-blood Christian. So much of what’s said and done in the name of that Christianity is appalling," she was quoted as saying. "According to my Bible, which I didn’t write, homosexuality is immoral. But homosexuality is no more or less a sin than fornication. And I’m a fornicator with a capital F."

Later, she added, "I like the sound of being called an honorary lesbian."

Still, while fans were clearly taken aback by her recent on-stage outburst, this isn't the first time Shocked has taken her evolving beliefs to a microphone: In 2011 during the Wild Goose Festival, a British music event designed for LGBT Christians, she was asked about her "position on homosexuality" by an audience member. 

"Who drafted me as a gay icon?" Shocked shot back, according to ReligionDispatches.org, which covered the event. "You are looking at the world's greatest homophobe. Ask God what He thinks." Shocked then shut off her microphone and said, "There is always someone who wants to catch me."

Meanwhile, there's at least one fan who thinks she hasn't lost all of her chance at public redemption: "All it would take is one 'oops--my bad I didn't mean that and don't believe in hate or hellfire' to clear the air," tweeted Penfield.

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This story was originally published on Tue Mar 19, 2013 9:20 PM EDT

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Kevin Clash poses with Elmo.

Updated, 2:40 p.m. ET: Kevin Clash, the ex-Elmo puppeteer who previously faced allegations of sex abuse, is once again at the center of a lawsuit. The man behind the iconic "Sesame Street" character is named in a sexual abuse lawsuit filed by Sheldon Stephens, who was the first individual to accuse Clash of abuse in 2012.

Stephens claims in a new complaint filed Monday in Middle District Court of Pennsylvania that he and Clash met in 2004 through a social networking event for models and actors. According to a press release sent by Stephens' attorney Jeff Herman, the complaint includes accusations that Clash and Stephens began having sexual intercourse when Stephens was 16. It details an occasion when Stephens was still 16 and Clash hosted a "crystal meth sex party" at his apartment. The complaint also accuses Clash of doing meth at that party, giving the drugs to Stephens, and engaging in sexual contact with the then-teenager.

Michael Berger, an attorney for Clash, issued a statement Tuesday calling the lawsuit "meritless" and "barred by the statute of limitations." In the statement, Berger writes that Stephens has "already admitted in writing that he had 'an adult consensual relationship' with Mr. Clash. Mr Clash continues to deny any wrongdoing, and we intend to defend this case forcefully."

Clash resigned from Sesame Workshop in 2012.

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Kanye West and Kim Kardashian in 2012.

An airline employee might have thought he or she was helping out a celebrity couple on Tuesday, but the worker's actions put Kim Kardashian and Kanye West at the center of a major security misunderstanding.

The couple had just flown from Brazil to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport and were trying to make a connecting flight to Los Angeles.

According to a statement from the Transportation Security Administration, "an airline employee escorted the two travelers through a non-public area in order to provide expedited access." In doing so, Kardashian and West ended up bypassing a TSA security checkpoint.

The TSA discovered the situation before the plane took off and Kardashian and West were given a private security screening at the jetway, the statement said. But the actions delayed the flight -- and the other passengers onboard -- for nearly an hour.

The TSA statement puts blame not on the couple, but on the over-helpful employee, and is actively investigating the incident.

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