Reactions to gospel preacher Kim Burrell on LGBT issues reveal split among black churches

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HOW LONG ARE WE GOING TO COON FOR MR CHARLIE??!!!

LGBT is his fight, not ours!
(Native Son) Birth of LGBT...
 It is not (Contrary to popular opinion) a civil rights issue it is a spiritual one. (Genesis 3)
Are we going too far with the nazi-ist LGBT movement. Every community calls on the black community to back them in their partition; because of our historic victory on civil rights. However, in return we collectively require nothing and we collectively get nothing for the black community, once their goals are achieved and the smoke clears; the black community is no better off then when it started. There is no LGBT in Flint helping to rebuild schools or providing clean drinking water... There is no LGBT providing jobs in Detroit to black community that was greatly effected by NAFTA. A unfair bill initiated by Clinton signed into law, backed by both Bush and Obama. Wake up black people! How are you going to allow others to step on your back to get ahead? While they keep us fighting amongst ourselves about issues that will not help or benefit our cause?!

They (LBGT) knew how to write that $6mil check to the Obama administration to help him evolve concerning the marraige issue, quote: "Marraige is between one man and one woman!" When the check cleared his evolution was complete and he changed black peoples mind as well. We got nothing neither from him (Obama) but a happy meal. (Hillarycare no Obamacare) The two (LGBT and Obama) got what they wanted.
 

In Los Angeles I watched in horror as the hispanic community (through SEIU) used the blacks struggle to get better wages, better benefits, and the right to stay illegally in the US, and once the goals were accomplished:



In Los Angeles every fast food restaurant, the airport, physical security, janitorial, farming, and construction jobs they have taken over, and even the traditional black communities. They love the benefits our struggle affords them but they have not and would not like to go through what we have been through to get it. So they use us, and will fight to get rid of any blacks that gets one of the above mentioned jobs to bring in their own kind.

Are we so naive and gullible? That we would turn against one of our own for a movement that doesn't care about the issues that plague us?!!! Besides it wasn't but 3 years ago when homosexuality was widely rejected by the black community have we forgotten?! (That is until Obama The Wiz said it was cool!)
 
Kim Burrell stand strong my sister. GOD has something far greater that Ellen for you!

Kim Burrell is not speaking from an authority of her own she is speaking the inevitable conclusion of an hedonist life style as planned by the Supreme Authority. 
 
Romans: 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:  

27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. 

Kim Burrell at a 2013 tribute to Whitney Houston in Los Angeles. (Invision/AP)

More than 1 million people watched Kim Burrell rail against “that perverted homosexual spirit” in a controversial sermon clip that led to the gospel singer getting pulled from a performance on “Ellen” and facing ongoing backlash from LGBT advocates.

Burrell was scheduled to perform a song from the “Hidden Figures” soundtrack with Pharrell on “Ellen” this week, but the host canceled Burrell’s invitation. Pharrell called her a “fantastic singer,” but said, “There’s no space, there’s no room for any kind of prejudice in 2017.”

She had been named a co-honoree at next weekend’s BMI Trailblazers of Gospel Music Awards, but the organization uninvited her due to the recent remarks. Also, her radio show — airing out of Texas Southern University — has been canceled.

For many viewers, it was jarring to hear the crowd cheer as Burrell warned her Love and Liberty Fellowship Church that “if you play with [homosexual sin] in 2017, you’ll die from it.” But for some raised in black churches, her message didn’t come as a surprise.

“As someone who has spent countless years in counseling because of the hurtful things said to me in the black church, I must admit that I wasn’t surprised when I saw the video,” wrote Jonathan Higgins on The Root. “What surprises me is that there are still people who are shocked that there are still folks in the black church who continue to feel this way.”

African Americans’ views on same-sex marriage have not changed as much as those of other racial groups over the past several years, according to a 2015 Pew Research Center report. One-third of black Protestants and 41 percent of black Americans overall support same-sex marriage.

As Burrell restated on Facebook this week, she directed her Sunday sermon at LGBT people within her church, a Pentecostal congregation she founded in Houston in 2010. A two-minute clip of the message, filmed on a phone and posted on YouTube, shows Burrell describing sex acts and saying, “The spirit of delusion and confusion, it has deceived many men and women, and it’s caused a stain on the body of Christ.”

She also called out prosperity pastor Eddie Long, who was accused of sexual misconduct by multiple young men in his ministry before settling the cases out of court in 2011.

“Watching Bishop Eddie Long go down to nothing is an embarrassment to the church,” she shouted.
Fellow black Christians spoke up among Burrell’s critics, using the incident as a wake-up call over the rhetoric against gay Christians.

“Burrell has the right to preach whatever she wants to her church members but as black folks in general we have got to do better. We have the right to expect more from our spiritual leaders,” wrote Charles Easley at the Huffington Post, encouraging fellow members of the LGBT community to seek out congregations that reflect their values.

Some Christians who share Burrell’s belief that homosexuality is a sin took issue with her tone and the way she preached about it in the clip, telling her church to “beg God to free you” from homosexuality and calling it “a spirit of confusion and delusion.”

Rayshawn Graves, a pastoral assistant at an evangelical church in Virginia, described the tendency for Christians to attribute same-sex attraction to a spirit, a force that “causes or influences sinful behavior” and that “people can be delivered from through various means.”

“This sort of labeling of ‘spirits’ and classifying people with worse sins than others is more harmful than helpful because it puts up a barrier of hostility,” he wrote in a post about Burrell on the Reformed African American Network site. “This enables those who wrestle with and willfully persist in certain sins to hide in fear or reject the good news that is offered to all sinners.”

At a revival service Wednesday at a Baptist megachurch in Maryland, Grammy award-winning Gospel singer Shirley Caesar came to Burrell’s defense. “You should’ve said something four years ago when our president made that stuff all right,” she said.

Black Americans are half as likely as whites to believe people are born gay (26 percent to 52 percent), according to Pew. Additionally, a majority of black Protestants believe it is possible to change a person’s sexual orientation.

‘The reality is that there are numerous folks who get up on the pulpit weekly to condemn black queer people,” said The Root writer Higgins, noting the increased risk of suicide among minority LGBT youth, including African Americans. “If the black church continues to operate in this way, it will have more blood on its hands.

Black Protestants are more likely than any other religious group besides the unaffiliated to say they have family or close friends who are gay, according to Pew. Several responses to Burrell highlighted the involvement of gay Christians in black churches, their choirs and their outreach ministries.

“You have touched the nerve of a wounded, greatly unappreciated and misunderstood group of people who have contributed countless underrated and unappreciated gifts to the church,” stated Bishop Yvette Flunder, who leads a United Church of Christ congregation, City of Refuge, in Oakland.
Clay Cane, author of a forthcoming book about sexuality, faith and race, wrote for CNN, “The black church could not function without the LGBT community.”

Burrell’s parents were also singers and musicians in the church. She began her career in gospel choirs and has collaborated with A-list artists including Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston and Harry Connick Jr.