Roger Moore, the man that played James Bond from 1973 until 1985, has come under fire for suggesting that the famous British spy of book and movie legend should stay male, straight and white. That stance is getting some unexpected support, or mostly support, in the form of uber-leftist and CNN hosting failure Piers Morgan.

After making the comments on the future of Bond, Moore defended his stance, saying Bond needed to stay true to the character that was created.

"That wasn’t what Ian Fleming wrote. It’s not about being homophobic, or racist, it’s about being true to the character," Moore said.

Morgan, departing from his usual progressive shelter, wrote a piece for The Daily Mail agreeing, mostly, with Moore, the man he says was his fave Bond.

A suave, smart, sophisticated, eloquent, absurdly charming, utterly ruthless assassin who oozed testosterone-fueled heterosexual pheromones from every pore.

He was the perfect embodiment of author Ian Fleming’s original 007 template: white, straight, male, impervious to long-term relationships and very happy killing bad guys.

Morgan then called on his own experience in films, including the recent Entourage movie to point out that he knows his limitations:

I can’t play Nelson Mandela or Martin Luther King.

Because I’m white, and their racial identity was crucial to their stories.

I’m not going to be Wonder Woman or Mary Poppins.

Because I’m a bloke.

Morgan goes on to point out that having Bond, the ultimate womanizing assassin, be a gay character would change the story line so much that it would likely kill the long-running move franchise:

If James Bond’s gay, then the whole tone of the franchise has to go gay too.

His lovers would be gay men, Bond Girls would become Bond Boys.

‘What’s the problem with that?’ I hear the PC brigade howl (they always howl, FYI.)

Well, nothing. Except I wouldn’t want to watch that, and nor I suspect would the vast majority of Bond movie fans.

So the film would tank, and the franchise would die.

This is not homophobia – I think I proved my anti-homophobia chops on air at CNN and regularly on social media - it’s simple commercial reality. Bond’s 50-year brand has been built on a clear, definable platform of him being a ruthless, womanising assassin.

Where Morgan parts company with Moore is whether Bond could be played by a black man, suggesting that Idris Elba has all the characteristics necessary for a believable Bond character. Morgan blasted those attacking Moore as being part of the PC police.