>Prince is now a very devout Jehovah's Witness
did you hear that he, just like the rest, goes door-to-door proselytizing?
There was a short article in the Mpls StarTribune - he showed up at a
family's doorstep and spent about a half-hour with them.
Turns out they are Jewish.
The best quote was "Rochelle said she could not help but think, the Vikings
had possession of the ball about two seconds ago."
C.J.: Jumping Jehovah! Prince goes a door-knockin'
C.J., Star Tribune
Published October 12, 2003
Proselytizing for Jehovah's Witnesses during last Sunday's Vikings game
wasn't the smoothest call Prince has ever made. An Eden Prairie woman, who
prefers to be identified only as Rochelle, said, "Door bell rings. My
husband runs upstairs and says, 'Prince is at the door!' I said, 'No way.'
" Even though this was an inopportune time, they let in the man who
introduced himself at "Prince Nelson" and another man. "I'm terrible with
names," Rochelle said. "He was a bass player for some group, a long time
ago. Older gentleman." Larry Graham? "Very good," Rochelle said. "This is
Sunday about 2 o'clock. And it's the night of Yom Kippur. My first thought
is 'Cool, cool, cool. He wants to use my house for a set. I'm glad!
Demolish the whole thing! Start over!' Then they start in on this Jehovah's
Witnesses stuff. I said, 'You know what? You've walked into a Jewish
household, and this is not something I'm interested in.' He says, Can I
just finish? Then the other guy, Larry Graham, gets out his little Bible
and starts reading scriptures about being Jewish and the land of Israel."
Uh-oh. Rochelle said she could not help but think, the Vikings had
possession of the ball about two seconds ago. "They stayed for about 25
minutes," Rochelle said. "Left us a pamphlet." She should have asked
Symbolina for an autograph. "There's no reason to slam him," she said. "He
didn't do anything wrong; he was very kind. We watched him leave. Outside
is a big black truck with a woman, long dark hair, in the front seat and
they left." The woman met the general description of Prince's supposed
wife, Manuella. Rochelle seemed perplexed that Prince didn't seem to stop
at any other houses in her neighborhood. "They go door-to-door. Walking. He
wasn't walking. He was driving." Hey, he was knocking on doors during a
Vikings-Falcons game -- you can't expect Symbolina to follow ALL the rules
of the religion he declared as his new faith in a 2001 magazine interview.
"It was so bizarre, you would have just laughed," she said. The perfect
esprit d'escalier came to Rochelle after Prince left: "If I showed up at
Paisley [Park], would you let me in your front door to talk about Judaism?"
There was no response from Paisley Park, where a note seeking a comment was
delivered Thursday.
