Brandon T. Jackson is a devout Black Hebrew Israelite and he says that God has forgiven him for playing a gay character in the movie, “Tropic Thunder.”

For those who don’t recall, he played Alpa Chino, a rapper and actor who hadn’t come out in the movie admits to having feelings for a friend named Lance in one of the movie’s big scenes. He says that the part went against his religious beliefs and he believes he “was on thin ice then with the father.”