Gospel Singer: There's Way Out Of Being Gay

[The Straight Story]

Gospel Singer: There's Way Out Of Being Gay

POSTED: 10:14 am EST March 6, 2006

FREEPORT, N.Y. -- Gospel singer Donnie McClurkin said he knows from personal experience that God offers an exit for people who don't want to be gay.

The Grammy Award-winning singer, who pastors a church in New York, told Religion and Ethics Newsweekly that after being molested as a boy his "desires were toward men."

But he said, "God gave me the wherewithal to get out of that and find out who I really am."

"That's how the change took place, the different scriptures in the Bible, his will being shown through the scriptures," McClurkin said. "God walked me through it."

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[Dem2theMax]

1. I have one word to say:

:puke:

[NMMNG]

2. I second that

And add a :eyes:

[stumblnrose]

3. Blackbroke Mountain

eom

[cynatnite]

4. sounds like he was confused as a result of what happened to him...

but it sure as hell doesn't apply to EVERYONE.

Geez, I wish these people would get their head out of their asses....um, bible.

[Random_Australian]

5. "Walked him through it"

="God talks to me"
="I hear voices"

Which would conveniently explain the whole Right Wing Thing about... well you know but if we talk of it here the Anti-Gay patrol will get us. Unless, of course, well tell them "Keith Olbermann" until their heads explode.

[kevinbgoode]

6. for christsakes....he was MOLESTED

Are these fundies completely brain-dead??? He was MOLESTED as a child so that MADE him gay and then memorizing bible verses made him straight again?

Hon. . .these people need to get a grip on some kind of sanity. They obviously think that every gay person was molested.

Oh YEAH. . .where's his fu*kin'..oops...WIFE? Is this dude married or is he just another ex-gay-for-pay in the land of JeebusScam?

[Chovexani]

7. Donnie is gay as the day is long

As is 95% of the gospel scene, including every minister of music in every black church in America.

No, that's not hyperbole.

[moobu2]

8. Donnie's a pitiful gay-gay basher

This is a good eloquent Donnie McClurkin rant by Alicia Banks, check it out.

The Sins of Donnie McClurkin: He Fell Down But We Are Up!


I have been silent about Donnie McClurkin's increasingly boring and blatant gaybashing. For a while, I pitied his tragic childhood so much that I excused his misguided venting. But, I can be silent no more. His recent interview in a gospel magazine is my last straw! (See it in its entirety at a favorite web site owned by one of my favorite brother warriors: www.keithboykin.com.)

Donnie says that he was raped by an uncle as a child, and a cousin as a teen. I hate that these horrible acts violated his youth and wounded his spirit. I never condone any act of sexual violence or pedophilia. But, I also never blanket my hatreds. Why does Donnie feel the need to bash all homosexuals and curse us all in the name of God in order to detail his individual and uniquely tragic homosexual experiences? Why is he blaming all of us because he fell down? Why drag us all down with him and his molesters? Many of us are proud to stand and proclaim our homosexuality and our divinity. And, we dare to do so simultaneously and eternally.

Donnie says that he was not born a homosexual. He says his homosexuality was caused by his traumas. This may be so. It is also true that millions of girls and boys who are homosexually raped as children never become homosexuals. It is also true that millions of homosexuals are born gay. Millions of homosexuals are like myself. I was blessed with an idyllic childhood. I was extremely sheltered and never sexually molested by anyone. Yet, I am and I have always been a lesbian. Why is Donnie unable to separate his own tragic experiences from droves of homosexuals who have never experienced anything nearly as tragic as his miserable and pathetic life?


Why is Donnie's gaybashing getting more venomous? Could there be some irresistibly sexy new choir boy in his midst? Could his alleged heterosexual marital bliss be waning? Why is his gaybashing becoming more and more blasphemously toxic? Maybe he should stop singing for a spell and actually study a bible. He will find the magic of redemption in biblical truth. He will be truly healed by the revolutionary rebellion of self love. He will find that God does not hate him, even if he is still a homosexual.

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[Kerrytravelers]

9. So, I guess that dickless cheney's daughter was also molested?

You know, whenever you mention that dickless has a lesbian daughter, the wingnuts arguments seem to collapse in on itself.

Any confused feelings this guy suffered is a result of being molested. It has nothing to do with whether or not he is a homosexual. I didn't choose to be straight. I was born that way. Why is this so hard for them to comprehend?
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[readmoreoften]

10. There IS a way out of being gay!

It's called suicide. And too many young gay teenagers take that way out.

So were all heterosexual women once molested by men? I've known many lesbians who were confused about their sexuality because men molested them, and they relieved that trauma through sexually acting out with men, even though it disgusted them. If this man isn't gay, and is only trying to overcome sexual abuse, hooray-and-who-cares for him. But suggesting that all gay men are gay because of abuse is as absurd as suggesting that all straight women are straight because of abuse.