Gospel singer Donnie McClurkin, who has detailed his struggle with gay tendencies and vowed to battle "the curse of homosexuality," said yesterday he'll perform as scheduled at the Republican National Convention on Thursday, despite controversy over his view that sexuality can be changed by religious intervention.
"I can't let off. I didn't call myself -- God called me to do what I do," McClurkin said. The Grammy winner declared, "If this is a war, we are willing to fight. Not a war of violence, but a war of purpose."
McClurkin wrote on a Christian Web site in 2002 that he struggled with homosexuality. "I've been through this and have experienced God's power to change my lifestyle," he wrote. "I am delivered and I know God can deliver others, too."
McClurkin blamed "the hatred of a few activists," for the flap. "They act as if my singing on the ticket is the same as singing at a Nazi rally endorsing Nazism."
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