Barack Obama's good buddy, the religious right singer who thinks gays are out to kill your children and therefore need to be cured, now says that he's never said anything at all about gays needing to be cured. Funny, then, that Donnie McClurkin let himself be profiled on the lead "gays can be cured" Web site, Exodus International.
What's even more offensive than McClurkin trying to mislead the Chicago Trib about his past (and present) is the fact that Obama's campaign clearly put him up to this interview with the Trib. Trust me, there is NO WAY this guy opened his mouth to the Chicago Trib about this matter without the Obama people setting the entire interview up, or at least approving of the entire thing. Obama is now trying to feed you misinformation about his top surrogates and their anti-gay campaigns. Nice, Senator. It was bad enough that you embraced an anti-gay bigot and put him on stage as your representative, but now you're trying to polish his image in the media and lie about who he really is.
So I did a little more digging about just what Mr. Obama's good buddy has had to say about gays, since Obama is now trying to tell us that McClurkin's comments were all -- ALL -- taken out of context, per the Trib story. Here are a few quotes:
"there are many other things to be done to break the curse of homosexuality"
Oh ok, so we don't need to be cured, rather, our "curse" needs to be broken. Nice, Senator. Do you think being black is a curse? And how would if Hillary put someone on stage to raise money for her who thought that your race was a curse? Would you say that his words were being taken out of context?
"there are countless people who are discontent in this lifestyle and want to be freed from it. They were thrust into homosexuality by neglect, abuse and molestation."
Oh, so we're gay because we were sexually molested. Nice. You are aware, Senator, that this is one of the biggest slurs from the religious about gay people, and that it's an absolute lie. How would you feel if one of Hillary's people claimed that you are the way you are because you and all your people were sexually molested? I.e., you are the way you are because you're seriously screwed up? Then there's this:
"We do it with the drug addict! We do it with the alcoholic! So why can we not do it with those who have sexual differences?"
"There are certain things like, you know, anybody who has a lying problem; they get to the point where they hate being so, having such a lack of character that they make a change."
"The gloves are off and if there's going to be a war, there's going to be a war. But it will be a war with a purpose? I'm not in the mood to play with those who are trying to kill our children."
Yeah, um, that would be people like you and me who are trying to "kill our children."
Yes, Senator Obama, McClurkin is the perfect representative for your campaign. He thinks gays are a curse, that we need to be fixed, and that we're trying to "kill children." And I'm sure you'd have nothing to say about this if he were saying the same thing about African-Americans and Hillary were promoting him.
Stop the spin, Senator, and do the right thing. You're only making things worse.
IN OUR NEXT SEGMENT... we discuss how McLurkin's heroes, the folks at Exodus, discuss homosexuality as "demon possession" that needs a good exorcism. Wonder what the good Senator will have to say about that. Stay tuned.
