In a recent episo of TV One's Uncensored, Pastor Donnie McClurk – a three-time Grammy wner and the former poster boy for Ain Amerin ex-gay
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- EX-GAY GOSPEL SGER DONNIE MCCLURK UNR FIRE AFTER SPEAKG OUT AGAST SAME-SEX MARRIAGE RULG
- 'EX-GAY' MCCLURK'S ALLEGED LOVER: I WAS WH HIM AFTER HE PRAYED AWAY THE GAY
- DONNIE MCCLURK REMOVED OM MLK NCERT OVER 'EX-GAY' CLAIMS, STILL PAID $10,000
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
EX-GAY GOSPEL SGER DONNIE MCCLURK UNR FIRE AFTER SPEAKG OUT AGAST SAME-SEX MARRIAGE RULG
(Photo by Paras Griff/Getty Imag for ESSENCE)McClurk, 61, had prevly opened up years ago about his past stggl wh homosexualy, which he lled a “perversn, ” and claimed that he was able to supprs his sexual orientatn, cg his and many Christian church’ stance on homosexualy as a admted that he still had urg to be wh men but chose not to. Comparg homosexualy to diabet he said, “I don’t eat sugar, but don’t mean that I don’t want sugar. ”Read More: Kirk Frankl lls out homophobia the church: ‘Nothg to do wh the Bible’Now, the Grammy Award-wng artist says he believ his stggle over his sexualy will leave him whout the fay he always dreamed of.
”Read More: Kelly Rowland explas why she left her church after Dty’s Child’s ‘secular mic’ cricism“There may be some who will read this and rent some of the statements ma about homosexualy.
'EX-GAY' MCCLURK'S ALLEGED LOVER: I WAS WH HIM AFTER HE PRAYED AWAY THE GAY
My hope is for gay/queer children and adults are met wh love and acceptance so they n eely exist.
” As sure as Donnie was about his Savr, he was still nfed about his sexual inty and homosexualy was his clatn. Homosexualy was now somethg his past, not his prent or his future.
Donnie McClurk ntu to tell his story, cludg his journey out of homosexualy. He has a passn for others who have been molted or who jt seek victory over homosexualy. “The gay muny is sayg that I’m a homophobe and that what I’m sayg is not real.
DONNIE MCCLURK REMOVED OM MLK NCERT OVER 'EX-GAY' CLAIMS, STILL PAID $10,000
And I don’t have a problem wh that, bee I’m not lookg to nvert everybody om homosexualy.
Factors of Homosexual Csatn:. The young Donnie McClurk had several other characteristics that often ntribute to rerce homosexual attractns.
Donnie McClurk has ma public knowledge that his volvement the gay liftyle was “hell” on earth for him. Donnie McClurk’s volvement homosexualy started when he was raped at the age of eight and end at the age of twenty-eight.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
In Donnie’s words he overme the nfn and hell associated wh his gay inty “by takg heed to the word, and through fastg and prayer, and people layg hands on me, and me pullg myself away wh only those people that had fah.
Donnie McClurk has stggled wh his sexualy and ced cints of childhood moltatn and exposure to pornography for “turng” him gay. In a recent episo of TV One’s Uncensored, Pastor Donnie McClurk – a three-time Grammy wner and the former poster boy for Ain Amerin ex-gay mistri – talked about his sexual past.
He par his gay sir to diabet: “I don’t eat sugar, but don’t mean that I don’t want sugar. At the Holy Convotn Internatnal Youth Department Worship Service 2009, McClurk poed his ex-gay rhetoric, stigatg former talented gospel dtry worker Tonéx (B. Acrdg to McClurk, Black men like Tonéx are gay bee of sexual moltatn, an absentee father, or bee they didn’t have strong male imag around them.