McClurkin CAMPAIGNED FOR BUSH in Michigan and performed at the 2004 Repug convention, and has appeared on Rev. & former Presidential candidate himself Pat Robertson’s “700 Club.” In 2004, he told the “Washington Post” under the headline, “Donnie McClurkin, Ready to Sing Out Against Gay ‘Curse’”:

“I can’t let off. I didn’t call myself — God called me to do what I do. If this is a war, we are willing to fight. Not a war of violence, but a war of purpose.” You know, the “holy war” against gays.

It falls under his and anyone’s “religious freedom” to spew homophobia from the pulpit [though I would still condemn them for it] but he, like 99% of them, have merged it with politics and tried and too often succeeded in denying gay civil rights.

I have praised Obama in the past for his courage in publicly speaking to the high incidence of homophobia in the Black community, as he did in the debate hosted by Tavis Smiley, so, regardless of how white and how clueless his staff is, for him to not have said, “Uh, tell me about the known political positions of these groups you’re suggesting I go on tour with” is predictable [gay issues are "after thoughts"] but unforgivable.

Sure some are. But not every time.

Cannick’s defense of Obama seems to me to be just more of the “white gays are evil” crap that she occassionally trots out to defend every indefensible action taken by a black person. She should consider that sometimes (surely) the white gay folks aren’t secretly conspiring to take down the black man. Sometimes white gay folk aren’t racists. Yeah, really.

Applause, Queerty, for doing something other than glorifying this bozo like all the other hip young liberals of the day.

As for the main topic: it’s one thing to applaud Obama’s documented efforts to make various groups less homophobic, which I do, but McClurkin is a professional, pathological homohater, demurrers notwithstanding, and his invitation to participate in the Obama campaign must be withdrawn until McClurkin recants.

If he does not, and they do not, then Obama MUST be opposed in every Democratic primary. BUT, if he gets the nomination, WE MUST VOTE FOR HIM if we value the future of not just gay rights but of the Supreme Court, Iraq, the environment, ad infinitum

Even if he’s shaking a tambourine on stage tomorrow night with McClurkin that would STILL not make him as bad as ANY of the Repug front runners who have COURTED homohaters BECAUSE they are [among other things] homohaters not IN SPITE OF it as Obama would be doing. They were doing that just THIS PAST WEEKEND as they all got on their knees to rim the attendees of the “Value Voters” read HOMOHATERS covention.

Obama, like ALL Dem candidates, would end DADTDP. ALL the Repugs support it. Obama, as ALL Dem candidates, supports domestic partnerships and federal benefits for gay couples. Romney viciously tried to destroy marriage equality in MA; Giuliani even condemns New Hampshire’s domestic partnerships as “too much like marriage.

Whatever ignorance went into the inclusion of McClurkin [St. Oprah frequently features the equally antigay gospel stars the Winans], Obama has been put on notice. Short of endorsing McClurkin’s madness, there is NOTHING he could do in this case that would justify our own ignorance, our voting in November 2008 for any member of the entire CHOIR [Mormon and otherwise] of homophobia exploiting/homohating Republicans.

I’m over BOTH of them now, but when i took the “which candidate is right for you” test, Obama came up top (we disagree on immigration and social security… and apparently now… gospel singers).

Matt, i think his meaning was “a first step”, like the Netherlands did. civil unions came first, then full marriages for all came just a few years later. it’s a “go with what works” method… kind of like EDNA. I agree it works, i DON’T AGREE with the premise. i would RATHER have gay marriage NOW and fight for it. i think it’s worth fighting for… same with Trans-rights side by side our own… i just don’t see a lot of people fighting these days – i see a lot of people bitching, no fighting.

Jerry Farwell said to CNN weeks before his blessed death that he would rather have an atheist for president who knew what he was doing with foreign policy than to have a born again christian who was clueless to the world.

i say “FUCK! Let’s give THAT a try!” i’ve ben wanting to vote for a smart atheist for some time now! I’m really tired of religion being the deciding factor of civil politics.

i honestly look at it, and it looks like a COMPLETE and utter fuck up. there is NO WAY anyone (except Giuliani) would be so sinister as to pander openly to the gay Logo forum, come up with a gay slogan on the website, and be completely pro-gay, HIV/AIDS awareness to homophobic, predominately black churches (as he has in the past) over and over again… and THEN start a gospel tour with both McClurkin and Mary, Mary.

for the record, McClurkin said in a phone interview that discrimination against homosexuals is wrong… (a nicely timed statement, i must say).

this really shows a like of attention to detail on ALL accounts (staffers, gay volunteers, Obama HIMSELF, his wife, anyone involved… etc). there are thousands of people that should have thrown up a red flag. my assumption is that a few DID, but were not heard. or maybe many did, and were all squashed… who knows?

Right now, he’s not showing his white side, or his black side… he’s showing his GREEN side. his lack of experience exploded with this one.

Barak Obama is fifty percent Caucasian….but when Chief Justice Roger B. Taney invoked Dred Scott (with the exception of Napoleonic code LA), no one ever sees a white man with black blood. He is a Negro, a black man, an African-American with white blood, albeit equal. After all, most African Americans have Caucasian ancestry somewhere.

Minorities also have few success stories who remain in the ‘hood, ghetto, or neighbourhood. When you are Barak Obama and you graduate from Harvard and Harvard Law and become the first black person to head the Law Review, and as a young man, and after a short state legislative term, win the US Senate, that is “reason” to conceal your sense of inferiority with a “superiority complex”. Excellent language skills replaces eubonics.

This prostitution to the right wing dominionists is predictable as he seeks to be all things to all. The code is clear. Nothing but down low bro.