Donnie McClurkin is why I didn’t vote for PresidentDonnie McClurkin and the SCHRS is why I didn’t vote for President this past election for the first time in EIGHT elections.
I would NOT give my vote to a candidate who sponsors hate speech against the LGBT community.
I’m hoping I find a reason to vote next time.

But I did votejust not for President.  Left it blank.  Stats matter.

On a positive notethank you for this story.  I think it is so important to the black community to have “out” role models.  I think the picture was especially effective.  Yes, look, regular black people who also happen to be LGBT.  I think that is important to see.  

I voted for president –The only candidate I could feel halfway comfortable voting for was Cynthia McKinney — running with the only available party with a strong LGBT-equality stance.

McClurkin Is Beyond HelpA nice gesture, but Donnie McClurkin, along with pretty much EVERY professional “ex-gay”, is BEYOND help.  
From Alan Chambers to Randy Thomas to all the others, the “ex-gays” do nothing but passively/aggressively wish violence and death to all gay people – playing the coy know-nothing when they’re not screeching about “the gloves are off” (as if we’re supposed to be scared of their limp-wristed threats).  
It’s going to take more than being nice to “ex-gays” like Donnie McClurkin – he needs to help himself.  For one, he can stop blaming everything on the death of his kid brother which happened 20-30+ years ago.  I’m talking some major help from a psychiatrist, meds and a vacation.

Being “nice”is what the Obama administration is all about.  Be nice to bigots.  Be nice to racists.  Be nice to corporate apologists.  Be nice to foreign countries that want to commit genocide on their LGBT citizens.  Just be nice, that’s all.  Fooey.
Don’t ever call anyone out on their greed, self-interest and hate-mongering–or on their willful stupidity.  Don’t ever challenge their religious beliefs or their right to put our rights to a vote.  Don’t ever call them liars, even though that’s what they are.  Don’t ever withhold money and votes from political parties that refuse to address our issues, our lives and the realities that shape them.  Don’t ever act responsibly and stand up for ourselves…  
The gay establishment has actively promoted this mindset.  We must never, we are told, ever be firm and resolute and assertive in defending our rights (or our lives, I guess).  We’re been told over and over again that we must be nice.  At this point it should be apparent to even the most obtuse among us that “being nice” is a losing strategy.

Nice to see this get some airtimeGreat to see you post this issue, Pam.
I did too:
http://www.transracial.net/200…
Sad part is that except for you, me and Rod — no one else
in the big bad gay blogosphere seemed to find this important.
Not Queerty, or Joe.My.God or that siren of doom himself David Mixner. None.  And these are folks who will breathlessly report on the opening of a Gay envelope, but can’t seem to find the screen space for an important issue such as this.
Gay Inc. talks up diversity and inclusiveness — but they’re really all about is blaming the black folks for all that ails Gay America.
It’s really quite despicable.  

Joe.My. God. was the first gay blog I saw this athttp://joemygod.blogspot.com/2…
Of course, it got troll attacked. And to give Mixner a little credit, he did post the Ruth-Hassell Thompson youtube of her testimony in the NY Senate.

My bad…I saw your posting prior to Joe’s on Friday but I can’t remember from where I linked to your posting.

towleroadwas where I linked to your posting from
http://www.towleroad.com/2009/…

I stand correctedwell, the post got more attention that i imagined
but the crux of my comment remains the same

Oh, I was angry aboutNOTHING fron Gay Inc. about the New York Senate vote and the fact that 8 out of 10 black Senators voted for marriage equality. Not even a question as to why the inconsistency between a vote of “the people” (AKA Prop 8) and those Senators (AKA anti-gay communities that vote for pro-LGBT politicians). No analysis, no questions, no nothing.
And some Americablog commenters still wanted to blame the black community.
But…I have to disagree with you slightly…Gay INC is into the meme that its’ religion’s fault and they’re right about that.
But they’re into the “all black people are religious and, therefore, anti-gay meme”. Which is so wrong.

Spread it yourselves… SHARE and BLAST!

I was lazy I guessI didn’t look past the two main candidates.  
I know we aren’t the only gay people who didn’t vote for Obama and of course couldn’t vote for a republican.
It would have been nice to have been in on electing the first black president.  Donnie McClurkin took that away from me.

Forgiveness, yes but…this was too much on the love side of things for me. I’m far too salty after Sister Donnie’s latest eruption where he called gays “vampires”
Forgiveness, yes, but he needs to be held responsible for his words and deeds.

Donnie McClurkinIs a sellout minister trying to stay relevant since he spent the first half of this decade cooning for Bush.
The more this self hating anus flaps his gums, the more irrelevant he makes himself.
It’s past time for the Black Church and Black Christians to call these right wing haters out.
And its past time for the gay community to face the fact that the vast majority of African-American legislators are the ones voting FOR you, not against you