Donnie McClurkin is among several gospel singers scheduled to raise money for the Illinois senator and Democratic presidential candidate at a concert in South Carolina…


A gay rights group on Monday urged Barack Obama to cut ties with a gospel singer who it says spreads false information about homosexuality being a choice. “I don’t believe that it is the intention of God,” McClurkin said Monday in a telephone interview. “Sexuality, everything is a matter of choice.” McClurkin said he does not believe in discriminating against homosexuals. “What people do in their bedrooms and who they are as human beings are two different things,” he said.


In response to an uproar from gay activists, Democrat Barack Obama’s presidential campaign on Thursday added a gay minister to the lineup for its weekend gospel tour. Obama’s campaign invited Rev. Andy Sidden, a South Carolina pastor who is openly gay, to appear on Sunday in Columbia.


Obama discussed Sidden’s inclusion Thursday with Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign, which supports gay rights. “There is no gospel in Donnie McClurkin’s message for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people and their allies,” Solmonese said. “That’s a message that certainly doesn’t belong on any presidential candidate’s stage.”


McClurkin is a Grammy Award winner who performed at the Republican National Convention in 2004. He told AP Radio in an interview that September that he was “once involved with those desires and those thoughts,” but God turned him away from them. (CNN)


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Although I do support Senator Obama, I promised everyone I would be fair and balanced: so on this I must comment.


Here are the facts:


1) McClurkin doesn’t agree with discrimination against homosexuals, he simply doesn’t think its right nor that it’s simply in your genes. And with his experience in the issue, I think he has even more of a right to speak his mind!
2) Homosexuality due to nature, rather then nurture, has not yet been scientifically proven. Yet everyone wants to jump on the bandwagon so quickly! Not only that, but also yell at everyone and exclude them if they AREN’T on the bandwagon!
3) There is nothing wrong, un-ethical, illegal, or even illogical about McClerkin’s opinion. Thus there is no reason he should be excluded from anything…


I find it pitiful that a gay rights group would be so hostile to someone disagreeing with them on an opinion. And its even more ridiculous that the head of a “HUMAN RIGHTS” group would further such sentiment… If we continue on this path, there will instead be hetero-bashing! There is no gospel in his message? Talk about closed-minded!


I give Senator Obama credit for not excluding McClerkin, but I still find his including a gay minister to appease such stupidity as not being a sign of strong leadership, not to mention he may anger some people at the event. Such comments as made ought to be met with a cool yet firm statement declaring truth and that which is right, NOT concessions of appeasement for illogical immaturity…