As I have previously indicated, I think someone in Obama's campaign needs to be fired for the inclusion of Donnie McClurkin in Obama's South Carolina Gospel Tour. I feel even stronger about this now that McClurkin used his platform provided by Obama to launch into his gays can be "cured" by prayer bull shit routine. This article from the New York Times (http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/29/obamas-gospel-concert-tour/?ex=1194321600&en=c79c27963d8efe04&ei=5070&emc=eta1) provides some details. Here are some highlights:". . . Donnie McClurkin, the superstar black gospel singer, decried the criticism he has generated because of his views that homosexuality is a choice. Tonight there was a small vigil of about 15 or 20 gays and lesbians, who stood quietly across the street as people filed into a big auditorium here for the last of three campaign-sponsored concerts (and the only one to feature Mr. McClurkin). The whole controversy might have been forgotten in the swell of gospel sound except Mr. McClurkin turned the final half hour of the three-hour concert into a revival meeting about the lightning rod he has become for the Obama campaign.
He approached the subject gingerly at first. Then, just when the concert had seemed to reach its pitch and about to end, Mr. McClurkin returned to it with a full-blown plea: “Don’t call me a bigot or anti-gay when I have suffered the same feelings,” he cried. “God delivered me from homosexuality,” he added. He then told the audience to believe the Bible over the blogs: “God is the only way.” The crowd sang and clapped along in full support.
As I have said before, if God truly changed McClurkin (and he did not merely discover that there's money in being "ex-gay"), then I am Queen Victoria and just did not know it. McClurkin is full of crap, and Obama gave him a platform on which to peddle it. I am still waiting to hear that some one has been fired by Obama. It looks like I will have a long wait.
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