Child Victim Subjected to More Abuse as an Adult

Donnie McClurkin is an American gospel singer and a preacher. Last Saturday he was supposed to be one of the headline entertainers at the 50th anniversary celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 1963 march on Washington D.C. But because Donnie McClurkin also has boldly proclaimed that God delivered him from a homosexual lifestyle, gay advocates petitioned D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray to uninvite him. Gray caved.

Apparently what is most offensive to the gay advocates is McClurkin’s testimony about being sexually abused as a child, first when he was 8 by an uncle and later by his cousin, the son of the uncle who had first abused him. Because of this abuse, McClurkin asserts he experienced sexual confusion that led him into a homosexual lifestyle.  This lifestyle continued until he was 28, when he experienced a religious conversion. It is the assertion that his childhood sexual abuse was the cause of his homosexuality that enrages the gay community. Alvin McEwen, author of “How They See Us: Unmasking the Religious Right War on Gay America” writes in the Huffington Post: “Gay men are not the products of child molestation. It’s an ugly thing to imply otherwise. . .” McEwen went on to characterize McClurkin as ignorant and a homophobe.  (more...)

Child Victim Subjected to More Abuse as an Adult