by JOSEPH PATRICK MCCORMICK
Kim Burrell had her performance on The Ellen Show cancelled PHOTO/Getty
A famed gospel singer who was set to perform with Pharrell Williams on the Ellen Show later this week has responded to criticism following a homophobic rant.
In a church sermon last week, pastor and singer Kim Burrell – who features on Pharrell track ‘I See A Victory’ – claimed that homosexuality is an “evil spirit” and that homosexuality is a perverted act.
Burrell claimed: “Anybody in this room who is filled with the homosexual spirit, pray God to free you. You’re playing with it in 2017, you’ll die from it.
“That perverted, homosexual spirit is a spirit of delusion and confusion. If you, as a man, will open your mouth and take a man’s penis in your face, you are perverted.
“If you are a woman and you shake your breasts in another woman’s face, you are perverted.”
Pharrell has since responded to say he condemns hate speech “of any kind”, following widespread damning criticism of his collaborator.
Now Burrell has responded, defending her hate-speech in two Facebook videos posted following the criticism.
She says: “I never said ‘LGBT’ in the sermon. I said ‘S-I-N… I know that people are going to be mad. … To every person that is dealing with the homosexual spirit, that has it, I love you because God loves you. But God hates the sin in you and me, anything that is against the nature of God. I’m called to do what God called me to do, and that’s it, and I do it with passion. … I make no excuses or apologies.”
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