Gwen Stefani is catching warmth over a Christmastime partnership with a prayer app that seems to have ties to right-wing causes and politics.
The Grammy-winner kicked off December by inviting followers to affix her and “millions of others” in a each day prayer problem by the app, Hallow.
“It is important this holiday season to spend time in prayer,” Stefani stated in a video posted on Dec. 1. “That is what Christmas is all about: letting God into our hearts and letting Jesus bring us his peace.”
The publish was marked as a part of a paid partnership with Hallow, which provides entry to a catalog of Catholic prayers, meditations, audio-guided Bible tales and reward music for $70 a 12 months.
Stefani’s spon-con caught the attention of activist and influencer Matt Bernstein, who dug into the app’s background and referred to as out the pop star in a video posted to social media on Monday.
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“It’s the most wonderful time of the year, aka when Gwen Stefani shills for the right-wing, anti-abortion, pay-to-pray app Hallow,” he stated, describing the obtain as a “religious grift.”
Bernstein highlighted the array of anti-abortion prayers on the app, together with one which particularly requested to bless ladies “pregnant from acts of rape and incest” who’re contemplating abortion.
Illustrating Hallow’s ties to conservative politics, he additionally famous that Vice President JD Vance and conservative megadonor Peter Thiel have been each early buyers within the app.
Stefani has but to react publicly to the backlash, and her representatives didn’t reply to HuffPost’s request for remark.
Although the singer largely retains her private politics non-public, she got here below hearth again in March for publicly praising far-right pundit Tucker Carlson’s interview with actor Jonathan Roumie, who portrays Jesus Christ within the biblical Netflix sequence “The Chosen.”
