Video: Proud Mary spoof aims to set Margaret Court straight

Former tennis champion Margaret Court came in for a lot of backlash after her comments on homosexuality around the time of January’s Australian Open.

While it’s been some time since her last controversial statement on being gay, a new effort by Scott Dawkins and Sheona Urquhar of Melbourne’s ‘TV Live on Stage’ sending Court up through the magic of Tina Turner’s Proud Mary deserves a mention for its comedic value.

‘Proud Margaret’ is an unrelenting look at 69-year-old Court’s stance on homosexuality and selective reading of the scriptures through the lens of a Creedence Clearwater Revival classic.

Believing being gay to be a choice, and saying gays were “aggressively demanding marriage rights that are not theirs to take”, Court wrote in January: “Let me be clear. I believe that a person’s sexuality is a choice. In the Bible it said that homosexuality is among sins that are works of the flesh.