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Related: About this forumMcClurkin withdraws from King Memorial concert
At the request of D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray, controversial gospel singer Donnie McClurkin, who has said God delivered him from the sin of homosexuality, has withdrawn as a performer at a city-sponsored concert scheduled to take place Saturday night, Aug. 10, at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial.
McClurkins withdrawal from the event, which is being organized by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, came one day after local gay activist and longtime civil rights advocate Phil Pannell called the gospel singers public statements on homosexuality vile.
Pannell and other LGBT activists said McClurkins participation in the event would be at odds with Kings call for ending discrimination and injustice against all people.
The Mayor directed the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities to ask Donnie McClurkin to withdraw, Gray spokesperson Doxie McCoy told the Blade in an email. No disrespect to Mr. McClurkin, but Mayor Gray thought it best that he withdraw from the concert in the name of not having his appearance to be a distraction at an event about peace, love and justice for all, McCoy said.
http://www.washingtonblade.com/2013/08/10/mcclurkin-withdraws-from-king-memorial-concert/
This great man's memorial concert had just been saved.
dlwickham
(3,316 posts)Bluenorthwest
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okasha
(11,573 posts)embrace equal rights for LGBT's, Coretta King most emphatically did. McClurkin's presence wuld have insulted her memory, too.
theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)I think the extended King family is still divided over the issue of equality, however.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Privately he said that would be his next step...