Shirley Caar Defends Kim Burrell's Anti-Gay Comments, Blam Print Obama

Contents:

• IS SHIRLEY CAAR'S GAY
• PASTOR SHIRLEY CAAR SAYS SHE’S NOT ANT-GAY
• SHIRLEY CAAR THKS KIM BURRELL SHOULD’VE SPOKEN UP ABOUT GAYS YEARS AGO (VIO)
• SHIRLEY CAAR DENI BEG ANTI-GAY: I WOULD NEVER SAY ANYTHG TO HARM ANYBODY. [VIDEO]
• SHIRLEY CAAR DEFENDS KIM BURRELL'S ANTI-GAY COMMENTS, BLAM PRINT OBAMA
• SHIRLEY CAAR DEFENDS KIM BURRELL'S ANTI-GAY COMMENTS, BLAM PRINT OBAMA

IS SHIRLEY CAAR'S GAY

The muny is still reelg after a silent churchgoer put Kim Burrell’s vlently homophobic sermon on blast for the world to see. Burrell’s tira—which featured vulgar remarks about gay and lbian sex and a warng that they would “die 2017”—led Ellen DeGener to ncel the schled talk show performance of the gospel sger’s song om the Hidn Figur soundtrack.

It’s an issue that is rurrected every few years after a proment black Christian exprs abject homophobia—which is perhaps why some misters weren’t at all shocked by Burrell’s sermon and Shirley Caar’s fense of .

“Bee of her stardom and her place gospel mic, a lot of gay people look up to her.

PASTOR SHIRLEY CAAR SAYS SHE’S NOT ANT-GAY

After his first year of semary, the home church he grew up removed him om learship bee he exprsed a pro-LGBT pot of view a mistry meetg—well before he ever me out or realized that he was gay. Pastor Shirley Caar was given a major si-eye by many earlier this week when she seemgly ma a ment agreement wh Kim Burrell's anti-gay, rponse to those sayg she is ntributg to the problem of excln the church, Caar said an terview wh Bishop Gee Bloomer that she has no time and is too old to be homophobic.

SHIRLEY CAAR THKS KIM BURRELL SHOULD’VE SPOKEN UP ABOUT GAYS YEARS AGO (VIO)

"Casear ma headl when vio surfaced of her speakg to the First Baptist Church of Glenarn ngregatn, seemgly fendg Burrell's crassly homophobic words that homosexuals had a "perverted spir. In celebratn of Natnal Comg Out Day, the special event “Gays and Gospel” will take place on Tuday, Oct. “The choir the Black church has always been a place where gay men uld show off their virtuosy while explorg their sexualy, ” said E.

SHIRLEY CAAR DENI BEG ANTI-GAY: I WOULD NEVER SAY ANYTHG TO HARM ANYBODY. [VIDEO]

“For me and so many others like me, the church was a place where we uld safely exprs our queerns vert ways while takg pleasure phg the lims of genr, ” Johnson Natnal Comg Out Day, a day tablished 1988 by a psychologist and femist as a form of gay liberatn, Johnson is teamg wh longtime iend and Northwtern lleague, Kent R.

SHIRLEY CAAR DEFENDS KIM BURRELL'S ANTI-GAY COMMENTS, BLAM PRINT OBAMA

Brooks, director of special projects for the partment of relig and spirual life, to lead a special lecture and performance lled “Gays and Gospel” on Tuday, Oct. Brooks have teamed up on a special lecture and performance lled “Gays and Gospel” to explore the tensns, challeng and triumphs of the LGBTQ+ muny gospel mic.

Johnson and Brooks talked to Northwtern Now recently about the event and why is important to highlight this often overlooked part of gay most people surprised to learn about the history of gays gospel?

Johnson: Gays gospel mic is kd of an “open secret. But, he was fact gay — although he wasn’t open about are some of the other queer performers you will talk about the lecture who fluenced gospel mic?

SHIRLEY CAAR DEFENDS KIM BURRELL'S ANTI-GAY COMMENTS, BLAM PRINT OBAMA

Frankl’s obuari, and people knew he was gay. It’s not unual to have people still sgg the church who are still stgglg, and ’s not unmon to have people who are very famo now, who are still there be sgg durg “Gays and Gospel?