{"id":198651,"date":"2007-10-21T22:09:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-22T03:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/21\/obama-should-not-be-hanging-out-with-homophobic-bigots\/"},"modified":"2007-10-21T22:09:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-22T03:09:00","slug":"obama-should-not-be-hanging-out-with-homophobic-bigots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/21\/obama-should-not-be-hanging-out-with-homophobic-bigots\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Should Not Be Hanging Out With Homophobic Bigots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama is doing a <a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/19\/obamas-gospel-tour\/\">gospel music tour<\/a> called the &#8220;Embrace the Change&#8221; tour with three dates in South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>I understand that this is a part of his message of inclusiveness, but review the highlighted portion:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>As religious conservatives gather in Washington this weekend for the \u201cValues Voters Summit,\u201d Senator Barack Obama\u2019s campaign announced its latest effort to attract people of faith to the campaign: a gospel concert tour.<\/p>\n<p>All three of the dates of the \u201cEmbrace the Change\u201d tour are in South Carolina, where Mr. Obama is locked in battle with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton for black voters.<\/p>\n<p>Gospel acts including Mary Mary, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;\" ><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Donnie McClurkin<\/span><\/span> and Hezekiah Walker, Byron Cage and the Mighty Clouds of Joy are scheduled to appear.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It seems innocuous enough, until you dig into the statements and actions of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A42982-2004Aug28.html\">Donnie McClurkin in this 2004 article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Gospel singer Donnie McClurkin, who has detailed his struggle with gay tendencies and vowed to battle &#8220;the curse of homosexuality,&#8221; said yesterday he&#8217;ll perform as scheduled at the Republican National Convention on Thursday, despite controversy over his view that sexuality can be changed by religious intervention.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He is also claiming that he was &#8220;<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">made gay<\/span>&#8221; by being raped by an uncle.<\/p>\n<p>Unless McClurkin has recanted these views, he is a messenger of bigotry and hypocrisy, and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">no<\/span> Democratic candidate should have him sing as a part of their political campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama is doing a gospel music tour called the &#8220;Embrace the Change&#8221; tour with three dates in South Carolina. I understand that this is a part of his message of inclusiveness, but review the highlighted portion: As religious conservatives gather in Washington this weekend for the \u201cValues Voters Summit,\u201d Senator Barack Obama\u2019s campaign announced &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,1030,978,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-lgbtq","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}