Patti LaBelle:"I try to stay away from churches who don't accept gays. I can't be a part of phony."

[Bluebear]

Richard Burnett at Hour.ca

Of course, this is just a Canadian article, so I guess only gays on DU AND in Canada know about McClurkin. Still, not a word from Obama about McClurkin, and most of his followers at DU tell us to "get over it/get a life/let it go".

Personally, Ms. LaBelle gives me more "hope" than a politician who would hire an "ex-gay" to headline his concert, ignore the pleas of the Human Rights Campaign and individual gay Americans not to put him on, then have a campaign worker cynically tell us afterward "We got what we needed out of it."


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....Look at that other "star candidate" stateside, Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama. That putz ripped a page straight from the Bush campaign playbook with his October "Embrace the Change" barnstorming tour of black churches to shore up African-American votes in the Deep South.

Except that tour featured "ex-gay" gospel singer Donnie McClurkin, a clearly deliberate wink to homophobic black churchgoers - and voters.

Frankly, I expect more from a black politician in America.

Like gay icon Patti LaBelle said during her gospel tour of mega-churches last year, "I try to stay away from churches who don't accept gays. I mean, I can't be a part of phony. It's not God's way. You embrace all people. I think that's what God wants, for all of us to love all of us, no matter who we are or what we do. And it's not a sin to be gay."

http://www.hour.ca/columns/3dollarbill.aspx?iIDArticle=13735


Patti LaBelle, recipient of the Excellence in Media Award at the 18th Annual GLAAD Media Awards.