Analyzing and refuting the inaccuracies lodged against the lgbt community by religious conservative organizations. Lies in the name of God are still lies.
The American Family Association's One News Now is claiming that McClurkin may have grounds to sue via an anti-discrimination ordinance. Of course this is nonsense. McClurkin himself, in a recent video, is claiming that he was "threatened and bullied."
McClurkin never fully explained the controversy behind his Washington D.C. booking and only provides an oblique, cursory reference. "This is all about a stand that I took," said the gospel legend and Pentecostal minister. "But I was never was derogatory against any lifestyle."
Donnie McClurkin is a liar. His stance has been extremely derogatory. The video above is him at a the 2009 COGIC Youth Conference. McClurkin is having what he seems to think is a religiously infused train of thought about the problems in the black community
But check out 6:17 when he begins harping on "feminine men." Then he says the following:
"No, no no. Don't applaud like it's a bash. It's because we failed. We failed! We didn't father our children."
Then later in the video, starting at at 8:38, McClurkin talks about how he was molested when he was eight-years-old. It's an awful story which he proceeds to make worse by linking pedophilia to homosexuality. It's a vulgar, disgusting ramble which McClurkin seems to be saying that existence of gay men is due to a lack of good parents and an abundance of evil predators.
I don't care how much screaming or talking in tongues he
does, I don't care how "anointed" he is supposed to be, McClurkin doesn't know what he is talking about. My heart goes out to him. It was an awful thing what happened to him as a child but gay men are not the products of pedophilia or rape. It's an ugly thing to imply and for him to now claim that he has not been derogatory towards gays when we have the evidence on tape is sad.
As I said before, I had already given my opinion about McClurkin being uninvited. The 1963 March on Washington was coordinated and successfully engineered by an openly gay black man, Bayard Rustin, who had to stay in the background of the African-American Civil Rights Movement because of ignorance and homophobia.
In light of this, what in the hell was anyone thinking inviting someone like McClurkin to this celebration? It's an insult to not only Rustin's memory, but in light of hearing McClurkin's comments, the spirit of the 1963 March itself. The march was about freedom from ignorance and bigotry - two qualities which McClurkin demonstrated that he had so much of that they could have been oozing out of his pores along with the sweat.
But no matter how you feel about this controversy, count to yourself just how many times will McClurkin and his supporters address the ugly comments he made in the above video instead of playing the victim.
Count how many times McClurkin and his supporters will just happen to evade specific details regarding his rhetoric.
If you are truly a man of God, Mr. McClurkin, you shouldn't be afraid to address what you have said. You shouldn't run away from your words.
I, and so many others, await hearing from you, especially those "feminine men" you talked about.
Many of them happen to be very good friends of mine.
To some folks, the lgbt community seems to be a cash cow. We have too many people earning a living attempting to defame us or deny us equality.
We collect them unfortunately.
For example, here is yet another one, Austin Ruse of the C-FAM (Catholic and Human Rights Institute.) Now earlier, he actually defended Russia for its draconian anti-gay laws. Today, while substituting for another religious right radio show host, he not only continues to defend the law but actually claims that most people in America would actually defend the law. Of course, watch how he defines this law as an attempt to keep gays from "recruiting" children:
Somehow, I have a hard time believing this. Perhaps its because of the source. You see, there is something else you should know about Ruse which is solely my opinion of him.
The man's an idiot, a 24-carat moron whose mind is a blank slate just ready to pop in whatever religious right propaganda against gays that exists.
And I say this because I have had contact with Ruse in the past. In 2009, we butted heads on my blog in regards to a pro-lgbt resolution at the United Nations. We went back and forth in the comments section of this post.
I found one part of his nonsensical rambling so amusing that I simply had to make a blog post out of it. Apparently Austin thinks that there are 20 gender identities. However, watch how he tap dances around the subject when asked to name them.
A while back, I told the lgbt community to watch out how for Fox News because the network will soon become a news entity where anti-gay propaganda would be able to be pushed to millions without the courtesy of a pushback or correction. From Equality Matters comes several examples of how this is slowly but steadily happening:
The only thing I can do thus far is report that this is happening. But it will take a large lgbt organization to start educating and raising hell about this. Hello, GLAAD!
Some members of the religious right, such as this guy - former chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt, think about gay sex too much to be complaining about it.
“I ask you, does it make sense to honor the 50th anniversary
of a march whose coordinator was shoved in the background due to
homophobia by inviting someone as a headliner who is committing the same
offense against gays in the present? Absolutely not.”
There is going to be a controversy regarding Saturday night's concert in Washington, DC regarding the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. From the blog of B.Scott:
Gospel singer Donnie McClurkin, who back in 2002 declared God
delivered him from “the curse homosexuality,” did not appear in a
Saturday evening concert celebrating the 50th anniversary of the March
on Washington, after several gay activists objected to his participation
in the event.
McClurkin was scheduled to perform at the
D.C. government-sponsored concert with other singers at the Martin
Luther King Jr. Memorial during the “Reflections on Peace From Ghandi to
King” event. But at the request of Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D), who
fielded concerns from the activists Friday, the Grammy-winning singer
decided not to perform.
“The commission on human rights and
Donnie McClurkin’s management decided that it would be best for him to
withdraw because the purpose of the event is to bring people together,”
said Gray’s spokeswoman, Doxie McCoy. “Mayor Gray said the purpose of
the event is to promote peace and harmony. That is what King was all
about.”
However, in a statement released on
video, McClurkin took issue with how the situation was portrayed. He
said the mayor “uninvited me from a concert that I was supposed to
headline.” He said “I was asked not to attend.”
The video is here if you want to watch it. Of course McClurkin makes out like he was the victim in this situation. In a comment on his video, McClurkin says the following:
CIVIL RIGHTS ARE FOR EVERYONE...gay, straight, religious, secular, male,
female, all cultures and colors. Let's not mistake that everyone who
lives here in america...everyone should have equal rights..whether we
believe them to be right or wrong. They're just BASIC rights for ALL~!
My spiritual stance is right...but cannot infringe on anyone's choice to
do as they choose as long as it a basic right. everyone will not follow
our christian principles..so what do we do with those who don't...don't
give them the right to live civilly? This isn't a theocracy...so even
if I, you or we don't agree...everyone has to be able to live a full
life.
But Mr. McClurkin, what about those children you maligned in 2009 at the COGIC youth conference? In 2009, McClurkin said the following about lgbt children at the conference:
I see feminine men, feminine boys, everywhere I go ... No, don't applaud 'cuz it ain't funny. It's because we failed. I see them everywhere."
In that same post I linked to (from Rod McCollum - Rod2.0 Beta), McClurkin said the following about lesbians:
"These young girls are just as bad as the boys in homosexuality, you don't see it. They can hide ... but there are some evil young hard butch girls."
In 2008 while in Barbados, he compared gays to drug dealers and prostitutes:
"The lifestyle began to grow. The girls did not want a broken man . . . . In homosexuality, there's always someone to abuse you. My lust for man and lust for God was pulling me one way and tearing me apart." ..
"He said Donnie, go and talk to others. I don't condemn it, so don't condemn them. God does not hate the homosexual, he hates the sin," said McClurkin, adding he is now a sincere, compassionate man, who keeps his masculinity, is ready for a wife and who is "transformed by the blood of Jesus".
But here is the thing. Nowhere in the video did McClurkin address those comments he made; comments which most likely had a lot to do with him being disinvited from the concert. And don't expect him or anyone defending him to mention those comments. My guess is that they are going to turn the situation around to make him seem like a so-called victim of the alleged homosexual agenda.
And that, my friends, is my problem with this incident - the dishonesty which i am guessing will come from McClurkin and many of his defenders.
My personal opinion is that McClurkin is not the type of person I would have invited in the first place to sing at a concert honoring a march on civil rights, particularly not THIS march.
You see, the 1963 March on Washington was coordinated and successfully accomplished by Bayard Rustin, an openly gay African-American who was an integral part of the African-American civil rights movement. Rustin also mentored Dr. King on nonviolent resistance.
Rustin had to serve in the background because of the homophobia of the times not only from the white community, but also the African-American community. Several prominent civil rights leaders did not want him involved and one, Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, was going to start a rumor that he and Dr. King were lovers.
So Rustin never got his due for what he did in the Civil Rights Movement. Now I ask you, does it make sense to honor the 50th anniversary of a march whose coordinator was shoved in the background due to homophobia by inviting someone as a headliner who is committing the same offense against gays in the present?
Absolutely not.
The irony of it all would most likely escape McClurkin. Instead of trying to create an aura of victimhood for himself, perhaps he should think about those whom his rhetoric victimized.
Had today's technology been around back then, I doubt Rustin would have
exploited it to address the attacks on his sexual orientation. I somehow don't see
Rustin posting videos of himself complaining about how he was treated. Rustin didn't care about such things. He only cared about the cause of social justice.
According to Dave Daubenmire, this post is exactly what he talks about "being sodomized by the Left." But I just can't help myself. He is easy pickings. And he has such a "purty lil' mouth."
