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Mon Oct 22, 2007 at 20:30:00 PM EDT
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| The Obama campaign had a chance to comment on why he decided to sign on for a gospel concert tour in South Carolina this weekend featuring recloseted anti-gay homosexual Donnie McClurkin (my earlier post is here). One gay activist involved with the Obama campaign said the situation puts the candidate in a bind, since he risks offending evangelicals in South Carolina if he cancels McClurkin's appearance but could alienate gay supporters if the performance proceeds as planned.
"This story is quickly turning into a disaster for Barack," said the supporter who is active on gay and lesbian issues. "He's screwed if he goes through with the trip with Donnie McClurkin….But he's also screwed in South Carolina if he dumps McClurkin. I hope that the staffer who set this up has already been fired." There wasn't any response one way or another until now, and the Illinois senator and White House hopeful has made it clear what it comes down to when it means placating the homophobic religious black vote versus gay and lesbian voters (including gay people of color, who are the ones on the front line of discrimination in their religious communities).About 6:40 pm today, the Obama campaign issued a written statement from the candidate saying that he "strongly disagree(s)" with McClurkin's views. Still, a spokesman said McClurkin would remain part of the concert line-up.
"I have clearly stated my belief that gays and lesbians are our brothers and sisters and should be provided the respect, dignity, and rights of all other citizens. I have consistently spoken directly to African-American religious leaders about the need to overcome the homophobia that persists in some parts our community so that we can confront issues like HIV/AIDS and broaden the reach of equal rights in this country," Obama said in the written statement.
"I strongly believe that African Americans and the LGBT community must stand together in the fight for equal rights. And so I strongly disagree with Reverend McClurkin's views and will continue to fight for these rights as President of the United States to ensure that America is a country that spreads tolerance instead of division," the statement added. This is a sorry response, a feeble attempt to have it both ways. Overcoming homophobia does not include sharing the stage with a man who compares gays and lesbians to liars.McClurkin explains, "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."
That said, this is a much larger problem than Barack Obama and the decision of his campaign to kowtow to the religious black vote versus his LGBT allies. More below the fold. |
| Pam Spaulding :: Obama won't back down from SC concert with homobigot ex-gay Donnie McClurkin |
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters' Alvin McEwan must have been reading my mind:Remember, the African-American community has no out lgbt leaders gracing the covers of Ebony, Jet, or Essence. The African-American media does not necessarily take it upon itself to present issues indigenious to the lgbt of color experience.
And for the most part, neither does the mainstream lgbt community.
So McClurkin can easily portray himself as a victim and the lgbt community as religious oppressors in these avenues.
And this could lead to another possible distraction to divide the mainstream lgbt and the heterosexual African-American community.
...The fact of the matter is that McClurkin has extreme popularity in the African-American community. And the lack of lgbts of color to give our side of the issue only makes the entire community look not only anti-religious but racist. A few of us are out here talking about the complexities of tackling homophobia in the black community, but no, we're not discussed or known in the black MSM -- you're not going to read about the National Black Justice Coalition in the above-mentioned magazines. It's a blackout of sorts, no pun intended.
Earl Ofari Hutchison made it clear in his Huff Post piece, "Obama Should Repudiate and Cancel His Gay Bash Tour, and Do It Now," that Obama is well aware of the math and the equation of making the decision he made today.A Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies poll in 2004 found that blacks by a far larger margin than the overall population opposed gay marriage. That raised a few eyebrows among some political pundits, but there were much earlier signs of blacks' relentless hostility to gays and gay rights. A survey that measured black attitudes toward gays published in Jet magazine in 1994 found that a sizable number of blacks were suspicious and scornful of them. Many blacks also were put off by Kerry's perceived support of abortion. In polls, Kerry got 20 percent less support from black conservative evangelicals than Democratic presidential contender Al Gore received in 2000.
In Florida and Wisconsin, Republicans aggressively courted and wooed key black religious leaders. They dumped big bucks from Bush's Faith-Based Initiative program into church-run education and youth programs. Black church leaders not only endorsed Bush but in some cases they actively worked for his re-election, and encouraged members of their congregations to do the same.
This lesson isn't lost on Obama. Desperate to snatch back some of the political ground with black voters that are slipping away from him and to Hillary; Bush's black evangelical card seems like the perfect play. Obama wouldn't dare go down the knock gay path, and risk drawing the inevitable heat for it, if he didn't think as Bush that anti-gay sentiment is still wide and deep among many blacks. For Obama to have to take on the entire mantle of addressing the anti-gay rhetoric promoted by the likes of Donnie McClurkin and his supporters is a lot to ask, but there are going to be precious few voices in the black community who are going to be willing to call out McClurkin on his bigotry and ex-gay misinformation and do something about it. We now know what the "something" is. |
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