“The Supreme Court Was Wrong”: Donnie McClurkin Weighs In On Same-Sex Marriage Ruling

June 30, 2015  |  
By Jazmine Denise Rogers
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When the Supreme Court overturned the ban on same-sex marriage Friday, making it legal in 50 states, we knew that there would be mixed emotions regarding the historic decision. Over the weekend, pastor and gospel singer Donnie McClurkin, who was once gay, hopped on Facebook to express that he strongly disagrees with the ruling because of his religious beliefs. His post reads:

SUPREME COURT RULES & OVERTURNS BAN ON SAME SEX MARRIAGE…MAKES SAME SEX MARRIAGE CONSTITUTIONAL!!!
THE CHURCH NOW STANDS AGAINST IT OR BOWS ITS KNEE TO IT!!! WHAT WILL YOU DO???

We’ve just received the answer from man’s Supreme Court….we already received the answer from GOD!! With NO REGARD to what the Supreme Court of MAN decrees…no matter what MY past was or feelings & struggles …GOD has set the only standard for marriage to be between man and woman…in biology, in physiology, in history, biblically & scripturally and that..I will NEVER speak against!

ROMANS 3:3,4 says,
“What then? If some did not believe, does their unbelief nullify the faithfulness of God? Absolutely not! Let God be true, and every human being shown up as a liar, just as it is written: “so that you will be justified in your words and will prevail when you are judged .”

We are NOT careful how we answer this…..we are at the end and the church has to arise now and STAND in evangelism with the TRUE GOSPEL or BOW it’s knee to this new society and counterfeit gospel! Which will it be? Well, as for me & my house…. WE WILL SERVE & LOVE THE LORD, JESUS…THE CHRIST!!! THE TRUTH WILL NOT CHANGE WITH SOCIETY….NEITHER WILL THE TRUE CHURCH!!!!

WE MUST LOVE ALL PEOPLE!!!! Homosexual or heterosexual ..NO MATTER WHAT WALK OF LIFE THEY TAKE!!! Save your harsh rhetoric against PEOPLE…LOVE GOD….LOVE ALL PEOPLE BUT WE STAND AGAINST ALL SIN, EVEN IF ITS IN US…AND WE DONT AGREE WITH OR CONCEDE TO SOCIETY’S CHANGE OF GOD’S PLAN AND INTENTION FOR MAN!

THE SUPREME COURT WAS WRONG. GOD AND HIS WORD IS RIGHT!!

I know…I know….I’ve done many things in this regard wrongly….but that only qualifies me to address it! In love

Where do YOU stand??

Of course, his post quickly sparked a debate, but he wasted no time jumping into the comments to defend his stance and to encourage respectful dialogue. He followed up:

READ THIS IN ITS ENTIRETY! ALL OF IT!!! We don’t have to agree in order to love! State your mind without disrespect …pro or con…. Dialogue without an evil heart and wicked words!! WE DON’T HAVE TO AGREE TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER!!!! No animosity to any for the evil posts and comments…love you all…. God bless

Are you surprised that Donnie is speaking out?

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  • daethaqtsims

    Somebody sit this heffa down!!

  • JR Ewing

    To all you awful G@y-hat|ng rel|g|ous people:

    You lost.
    Get over it, you big babies.

    When these comments are unearthed 1,000 years from now the people who read them will be astounded at your level of b|gotry and nast|ness.
    My point:
    Your culture of hate and b|gotry is dying, as is your religion.
    Why?
    Because you and your rel|gious ilk are cruel, and young people see your cruelty and want nothing to do with it.
    Change will be gradual but unstoppable, generational in nature.
    It’ll be your children and grandchildren who reject your cruelty.

    • I pray for you. Because clearly you don’t know that the God who was here before this whole mess began is holding all of it in his hands. That’s right. You aren’t changing society because you can. Your changing it because she allows you (plural) to. He knew you would, from the beginning, but unlike the word of God, LGBT as all the other sins have an end. Gods word, however, stands the test of time. So know, there’s no lose or win. When God’s on your side, the battle was already won before any of us were born.

      • JR Ewing

        You are a deranged cultist.
        I was born and raised in the same sick cult, and I even went through that ridiculous ritual of accepting Jeebus Cripes into my heart.
        Obviously it was just a meaningless ritual, but I still went through it.
        My point is that I know your cult’s sick ways because I was part of it at one point. Thankfully I have a strong sense of self and an IQ that’s over 80, so I rejected it at age 12 or so.
        How old are you?
        25? 30? Yet you still haven’t found the strength and bravery to be honest with yourself about your wicked cult.
        Is that because you are suffering from a low IQ or extreme cowardice?
        Or is it sheer laziness?
        There is no Sky Daddy watching over us, Sweetie. You’ve been lied to by your preacher, a man who is getting rich off of telling you those lies.
        Wake up and embrace the truth: You belong to a whacked-out cult of cruelty and lies, and its Golden Age has passed it.

  • JR Ewing

    What a repressed mess…
    Donnie wants everyone to be as miserable as he is.

  • mmmdot

    ‘3 Ways the Gay Rights Agenda™ Has Perpetuated Oppression’

    http://everydayfeminism .com/2014/12/3-ways-the-gay-rights-agenda-has-perpetuated-oppression/

  • garyjminter

    As William Shakespeare wrote in “Hamlet,” ….”Methinks the Lady doth protest too much.”

  • mmmdot

    This is stupid. The end. There’s NOTHING wrong with gay marriage itself but there’s plenty wrong with the white gay rights movement as is. If I can grasp that, why can’t so many “church people”? Jesus, I WISH people would freaking educate themselves. I can’t STAND when willfully ignorant Black “church people” even DISCUSS women and LGBTs. Why? Because instead of just condemning the white supremacy of white feminists or white LGBTs, they denigrate women and LGBTs as a WHOLE and put socially aware Black women, Black feminists, and Black LGBTs on the defensive.

    You’re not JUST attacking the whites who ARE in fact trying to oppress, exploit, and harm you – you’re alienating and subjugating EVERYONE ELSE in the Black community who ISN’T a straight Christian black male to make up for the lack of power you have ANYWHERE ELSE in society. It’s morally bankrupt, and it’s NOT going to get you anywhere in life. It’s why young Black people are running from the church in droves and saying they’re ‘spiritual.’ The “forgiveness”/ “docility” doctrine in the Black church is the WHITE COLONIZER’S distorted version of “Christianity” and “religion.” Not the African Christianity that was practiced in Ethiopia. The fact that many Black people even THINK that Jesus and God are ‘WHITE’ is OBSCENE. The patriarchal misogyny, heterosexism, passivity, and internalized racism of the Black church and the REST of our Black institutions has GOT to go. The ENTIRETY of the Black church needs a reconstruction. Period. Read a freaking book. Tired of this dumbness.

  • CLYP

    I’m glad Donnie spoke about this publicly. I also don’t agree with SCOTUS’ decision. I’m sick of the homosexual/lesbian community’s attempt to hijack the Civil Rights Movement.

  • akatsukihana

    I thought church and state weren’t supposed to mix? So why the religious hysteria? Christians act like the govt is persecuting them because it now allows grown adults to get married. Remember – the USA is a secular country not a theocracy.

  • Element of energy

    I just don’t understand the need for people to have to tell the world they’re gay. sometimes they come off as bragging or attention whoring. All the stigmatic dressing and over the top gestures is getting on my nerves. Just be gay and carry on jeesh…

  • Blackbell

    I choose to accept people for who they are, but not everyone agrees and no one can be mad. He is not the only person who disagrees with the ruling and all I’m going to do is respect his opinion. Most people go with these changes in society because if you don’t then you are ridiculed. Look at the celebs who spoke their mind about Caitlyn Jenner, roasted to no avail until they issue apologies they know they don’t even agree with.

  • shea2shy

    He is a hypocrite… This booty loving saved heathen… BYe Felicia!!! That meme about Donnie at the BET awards had me dying tho

  • Darlene

    Funny when someone speaks against the politically correct in this country they are bashed and accused of hatred. These are sad times

  • Isis

    He is still gay and crying in the dark about it. He needs go sing a song and shut up.

  • WakeUp***FLAWLESS

    another bible thumper,be blessed LOL

  • Ajavee

    To each their own as long as they are not hurting children. We have too many other issues to deal with. As long as it is not affecting your life why be up in arms with what people do in their bedrooms and personal lives.

  • Nisi

    SHUT UP, SISTER McCLURKIN !!!

  • Courtney Banks

    Is he not familiar with the first amendment??

  • starapple

    “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”

  • Ya’ll funny, so people can identify with different genders, but once your gay your always gay? This is why I stick to the word of God, you all are so confident in what you believe in, not because it’s logical or makes sense, but because it feels good. While I’m a Christian who doesn’t necessarily care either way what the Supreme Court ruled, (because if God said marriage is between a man and a woman, why do I care what y’all say?) but none of you show your beliefs credibility by deflecting from the points he raised. It’s sad, the bible really predicted your same attitudes and thinking, but your so blind by public consensus that you can’t even see that your a walking fulfillment of the end days. It’s hubris to really think you the created can point back at God the creator and tell him what is. So like Donnie wrote: ” Let God be true, and every human being shown up as a liar”

    • Duh

      You do know gender identity and your orientation have nothing to do with each other right?

      • I’d beg to differ. But even if they don’t, I’m assuming those cutting down Donnie are for LGBT and just LGB.

        • Duh

          You don’t have to be LGB to shout out other people’s ignorance.. You’re conflating two different issues.

          • I’m saying gay allies tend to be trans allies. If you are a gay ally who doesn’t believe in transsexual lifestyle, that comment does not apply to you. If you are a gay ally who is also a trans ally, and your philosophy is someone can identify as a woman who is born a man, simply because they “feel” like a woman, then how is it Donnie saying he used to be gay but now doesn’t feel that lifestyle any different?

        • Guest

          Case in point: Caitlyn Jenner. Bruce Jenner liked women as romantic partners. Caitlyn likes women as romantic partners. Preference did not change upon changing genders.

          • Gosh, y’all are missing the point. I’m not saying they’re the same thing, I’m saying gay allies tend to be trans allies. If you are a gay ally who doesn’t believe in transsexual lifestyle, that comment does not apply to you. If you are a gay ally who is also a trans ally, and your philosophy is someone can identify as a woman who is born a man, simply because they “feel” like a woman, then how is it Donnie saying he used to be gay but now doesn’t feel that lifestyle any different?

    • Sade Payne

      That’s right, I definitely am not living for the world and there views

  • GeekMommaRants

    Being a gospel singer and being a gay man may create issues for Donnie, this was NOT an issue for James Cleveland or Little Richard.

    • DA-BIG-D

      Yaaaaaaasssss, Hunty. I done heard bout James Cleveland. I got an honest question for you. Now, I am not trying to start nothing here, but on da real, do you think the black church environment turns men gay or effeminate? So many of them up in there. Even going back to the James Cleveland, Little Richard days.

  • enlightenment

    Why is he using all caps?

    • Guest

      He scared that he might fall in love with a man and want to marry him now that it’s legal. He protest too much.

      • DA-BIG-D

        He is angry. At himself. That his gay life wasn’t done differently. he was violated as a child (which may or MAY NOT have had a bearing on his sxuality). And he probably had some negative experiences as a gay man. But that doesn’t mean its the same way for every man. And it doesn’t mean that in the face of negativity, every man gives up and turns to religion. That is the prerogative of each individual man. Donnie felt as though he could find happiness by going on another path. That was his choice. But don’t bad mouth other men who have found happiness when they stayed the course.

        • COGal

          I have a few male friends who even in their 40’s still question if they’re gay due to the childhood sexual abuse they suffered. I know a few lesbians who ‘became’ gay because of their hate for Men..not because of their preference for Women. And of course there are people who have same-gender attraction based on healthy interactions.

          Relationships and people are complicated and I agree that you can’t be ‘locked’ into a label. I personally would’ve never dated a Man with a homosexual past, but I would accept his identity however he determines it.

        • Blue

          Wow, very insightful post. I think you are right and he may just be having conflicting feelings.

          • DA-BIG-D

            Yes. Just like some people who were abused as children, by an opposite gender perpetrator (i.e. hetero abuse) but can still grow up to have fairly decent and healthy relationships and marriages. People are different and deal with things differently. And I wish people would stop thinking that every gay man was a child molestation victim. I can attest that that is not the case ALL the time. And Donnie may have been destined to be gay anyways, with or without the molestation. We don’t know. The sad thing is is that it really could be the case that yes, he was violated as a child, but now doesn’t know how to facilitate and manage a healthy gay relationship. He doesn’t even know how to accept the fact that he could naturally be attracted to men. A hot mess of issues here.

  • Faye Ellis

    He used to be gay like I used to be black. And I’m still black

    • Taylor

      He was never gay he was raped on multiple occasions as a child around 7 or 8 by his uncle. Now I don’t agree with his views on gay marriage but he had a rough childhood that he overcame.

      • DA-BIG-D

        No. I had always heard that he engaged in a h0m0sxual lifestyle and blamed it on his m0lestation.

        • He did, and he overcame it. Nuf said

          • DA-BIG-D

            You mean he came all over it! LOL! Donnie still likes the mens and you know it. He may not have to live a lifestyle of bars, clubs and drugs and promiscuity, but cain’t nobody tell me that Donnie still don’t look at mens.

            • JR Ewing

              …and he’s doomed to a life of repression.
              That’s just tragic.
              African American culture is about to undergo a huge transformation in regards to their archaic, cruel, hypocr|t|cal attitude towards the LGBT community.

              • DA-BIG-D

                We got too many of them to be acting like this. Oh, Hunty I could tell you some stories!

                • JR Ewing

                  You’re right.
                  There are SOOOO many homosexual and bisexual people out there who either knowingly fake it or lie to themselves about their sexuality.
                  The side effect is a burning hot hatred for those of us who have the bravery to be who we really are.
                  It’s self-loathing and jealousy, pure and simple…sometimes it’s conscious and sometimes it’s not.
                  I’m convinced that bisexuality is the norm for human beings.
                  Being 100% heterosexual or 100% homosexual is actually a relatively uncommon thing, but society expects us to wear labels declaring which tribe we belong to.
                  And bisexuality is painfully underrepresented.

                  • DA-BIG-D

                    I met a married man (to a woman) just yesterday that told me, like every 4 weeks, he has got to get some d!ck. Like he starts gettin the itch for d!ck once every month or something. Totally masculine, truck driving type too. Wouldn’t even guess he got down with dudes.

                    • JR Ewing

                      It’s very common.
                      Human sexuality exists on a spectrum of homo- versus heterosexuality, with most people falling somewhere in the middle.

              • But, as the bible says, heaven and earth will pass away, but the Word of God stands. Doesn’t matter how you change the society he allowed you to live and and influence. Your only allowed to until God pushes the button back on this world, and guess what, what he said in the beginning will still stand.

                • JR Ewing

                  …tell it to your youth, who are abandoning your cult in record numbers.

                • daethaqtsims

                  LOL I just knew you were of a questionable religion HA!

            • I’m sorry, WHOOOO ARE YOU????? Do you know him personally? Do you follow his thought? Do you listen in on his prayers? If he said he overcame, because I’m a believer in the power of God, I BELIEVE him. Does that mean I KNOW whatever he feels inside. No. It means when someone tells me they’ve been set free, I take it as that. Up to you to BELIEVE otherwise, but don’t purport to KNOW someone you in fact don’t KNOW.

              • DA-BIG-D

                Hunty, my tea and Donnie’s tea comes PRE-SWEETENED! I knows!

                • JR Ewing

                  It’s ironic that someone with a handle like “Beautiful Black Mind” refuses to use her actual mind.

          • JR Ewing

            Wow, your b|gotry knows no limits, does it?

      • Faye Ellis

        The article clearly states “Over the weekend, pastor and gospel singer Donnie McClurkin, who was once gay,” My apologies if I sounded flippant regarding molestation but it was never mentioned in the article. It said he was gay and he alluded to the fact “no matter what MY past was or feelings & struggles”

        • Taylor

          So because a gossip site doesn’t mention it automatically isn’t true? He has spoken about his childhood for years and has established programs helping those who have sadly gone through the same thing. Sorry I just don’t believe someone would just go around making this stuff up just for the sake of it. He was raped as a child and yes do question his sexually because some ignorant and perverted adult themselves on him and no one did anything about it for years.

          • Faye Ellis

            Dont remember saying it wasn’t true just that it wasn’t mentioned so my comment was not based on that aspect of his life. Reading is fundamental

          • JR Ewing

            Conflating being g@y with being m0lested as a child is a morally desp|cable act.

      • Chey

        The same thing happened to me as a child. I was molested on the regular
        by my female babysitter and after that, I struggled with feelings for
        other girls. I wasn’t sure if my feelings came about b/c of what
        happened or if I was really gay. In the 12th grade I got saved and
        decided I wasn’t even gonna worry about it anymore. I wanted to live by
        God’s word to the absolute best of my ability.

        • secret87

          Besides religion its not normal.
          It alters you big time. Gays hush those who try and speak up. They want the world to be gay that’s it.

        • Linda Brown

          I can relate. At age 8 I was sexually sodomized by my 14 year old brother. My head was MESSED up during childhood. I’m happy to say I overcame that too. Now my main goal is to stay in Jesus

          • vicci

            Praise God, Linda. I hope all the best for you.

        • Diane

          So sorry to hear about what happened to you as a child. Let me say that it was and is natural for you to have had these feelings. Being sexually abuse created these feelings, had you not been abused you probably wouldn’t have those desires. You are not GAY you are human! You were violated & exposed as your innocence was taken away. Just be the best you! Love yourself more each day. Understand that it’s not something you did wrong. God knows who you are, in your heart and he loves you anyway. Peace

        • vicci

          Praise God. God for you, Chey. I will say this…a large number gays of been sexually abused as a child. Many people have left that lifewtyle. Yes through God all is possible.

        • JR Ewing

          You poor bra|nwashed sheep.

      • secret87

        Gays don’t talk about it,but being raped can alter you.
        Its best I say no more… 🙁

        • vicci

          Because talking about it may mean that they will have to explain that being gay is not something people are born with

          • Linda Brown

            Also since going through that at such a young age can be so mentally damaging. After it happend to me I had never felt so guilty in my life I might’ve been very young but I knew something was not right. I wasn’t able to tell my mom about it until my teens. My self esteem was blown.I felt so ashamed and mentally gone that I could’nt even hold a regular conversation. I despised my family so much that I would hate talking to my mother about basic things. But my mother is a prayer warrior and she helped me through it.
            It takes a lot courage and confidence to tell the truth. Alot of people struggle with that, even those that put on a happy face.

          • BreakEm

            THIS!!!!

          • Guest

            Unfortunately, the vast majority of gay people have never been molested, so your theory won’t hold water.

    • Just just to be clear, NOW we are equating being gay to being Black. Poor Rachel didn’t catch that the memo.

      • Faye Ellis

        No ma’am. It’s really not that serious. The point of the comment was there are some things you can not change. Please stop taking everything so literally and seriously.

        • Well here’s what your missing. God can do all things. God’s not limited by human ability or reason. If God took him from being homosexual to straight, then yes there are things that God can change.

          • Faye Ellis

            OK. May God bless and keep you always.

          • Sade Payne

            That’s right!!

          • QR

            Where was God when he was sexually abused as a child?

            • Are you asking because you want to know, or because your trying to discredit his power? Need context.

    • akatsukihana

      And he is still…..?

  • Damnpops

    If you say so Don.

  • Rosetta Stone

    Donnie…GIRL please.

    • Music

      My thoughts exactly!

    • So cute!!! Look at you all tearing a Black man down for your White liberal masters! Cudos!

      • Rosetta Stone

        LOL. word

      • Blue

        Really? And what master are you serving? The god of hate? Just because people don’t agree with you that makes them ignorant slaves? Woooow, pretty loaded don’t you think?

        • bkabbagej

          The only GOD that matters. What really gets my goat is the same things that the LGBT “claim” their fighting for, they want to force upon people that say out loud they don’t agree nor want to accept their life style. I should have the right to say out loud that I don’t agree and not be labeled a bigot,or anti anything, sued because I don’t want to have any exchange with their lifestyle and having explain why Lil Susie has two mothers but I’m teaching my children that life is created through a man and a woman coming together. If you truly want acceptance and to be treated equal then don’t force your lifestyle on me and my house and I won’t force mine on you. I have to accept your opinions and public expressions of love then respect and accept mine and the fact that I choose not to teach my children about what you do in your bedroom, attend or be apart of how you choose to live. Either way isn’t fair.

          • Blue

            1. Yes, you do have the right to say aloud what you agree with and don’t. My issue isn’t with the disagreement, it’s with the hateful bigotry that accompanies it. There is a way to disagree without damning people to hell. I am friends with plenty of Christians who believe homosexuality conflicts with their religious beliefs but; they don’t go about communicating it Westborough Baptist style if you know what I mean.
            2. You don’t want to have any “exchange” with the LGBT community? They are everywhere. Perhaps you should link up with the racists who don’t want to have exchange with people from different races. Oh…wait…
            3. Who is forcing their lifestyle on you? Are you currently held at gunpoint to engage in a homosexual relationship? Why are you worried about Little Susie’s parents? You never know, her parents could be just as awesome or even more awesome than you as a parent.
            4. The same thing you ask of the LGBT community is probably the same they ask of you. State your truth but don’t force your beliefs on them. Take your own advice.
            5. Decades ago, folks couldn’t marry interracially in this country. I think this is no different. If you don’t want to be associated with the LGBT community, you don’t have to be. How is the supreme court passing this law upsetting your daily life? Does it prevent heterosexuals from getting married? I’m soooo confused!

            • bkabbagej

              What on earth are you talking about…what I said was referring to my children being exposed to a lifestyle I disagree with NOT with having a homosexual relationship?
              As always the LGBT community wants to compare the choices they make in a very personal sexual situation with race and and being racist, but to that I say the day a man who claims that he is attracted to another man can then decide for whatever reason that he wants to go back to living as a straight man and a black man can decide that he no longer wants to be black and shed his skin and live as a white man, I’ll accept that comparison. There are plenty of gay men and women who make the choice not to share their attraction with the world (mostly for financial reasons) and it’s not that important to them to be at the extreme part of their sexuality. Your sexual choices don’t have to be done in a skirt and a wig, through surgical changes or anything that you choose to do but a Black person has to live in their skin no matter what. There is no surgery, wig, dress, walk, sound of voice, or anything to change what GOD has made you to be and as we currently see laws that will change how society accepts my Black skin. Being LGBT comes with choices that a Black person could never make, so don’t give me that crap about their struggle being like ours.

              No it doesn’t prevent heterosexuals from getting married , but yes I do have to be associated with them when laws are passed that make it ok for a person that clearly looks like a man,but I’m force to see him as a woman, for my children to come in contact with them and have to deal with two men saying my husband. Yes, your response clearly shows you’re confused!

              • Blue

                You are missing the point. Many LGBT folks feel they were born that way. That leads me to wonder if that is the way the creator made them. Also, we are talking basic human rights here. Again, two gay lovers getting married does not negatively impact my quality of life. I am not God nor will i pretend to be. My job is to love people. Get hype all you want..your huffing, puffing, and self righteousness doesn’t scare me. Good day.

                • bkabbagej

                  No huffing and puffing, it’s obvious I’m missing your point and your missing mine. Good Day to you too

              • efflorescing

                Exactly the same sentiments I have…esp about our children having to come in contact with these people…it’s refreshing that everyone is not afraid to speak against the double standard in opposing homosexual lifestyle…

            • akatsukihana

              He’s just pissed because he can’t stand the idea of gays breathing the same air as he is

          • BreakEm

            PREACH PLEASE!!!!! My close friend’s bestie is a “butch” and do you know my son was 5 yrs old at the time when he asked me “Mom, Aunt Reece is a girl right?” I said yes. He says “Well why does her daughter call her dad and why do I call her ‘auntie’?” Kids are not dumb… This community is constantly shouting at the rooftops but we cant disagree with them? If we do, we’re horrible and unaccepting, etc. Its not fair. This stuff is a spirit and ppl play too much with it. Ijs

            • vicci

              This stuff is a spirit…AGREE!

          • LVRS

            well stated.

        • Blackbell

          This is an agenda that is hiding something bigger that is happening. And most just want the gay vote.

        • akatsukihana

          Typical christian MO – we love you until you disagree with us, then we ostracize you.

      • akatsukihana

        Facepalm.

      • daethaqtsims

        “White Liberal Masters” Ha! girl you don’t know what you’re talking about.

    • SumthinSweet

      Bwahahaha