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Gospel Singer Who Called Homosexuality A 'Perversion' Apologizes To LGBTQ+ Community
Burrell, who has worked with the likes of Missy Elliott and Pharrell Williams, addressed the comments she made in the past.
“I want to apologize to the LGBTQ community."
“Let’s give them a great big round of applause."
She continued:
"We want them to have strength and to sincerely know that we must all do the work to embrace all of God’s people and show his love to everyone."
“I hope this award and this moment can be the beginning of a bridge-building and listening to each other as we follow peace with all men.”
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Most people on social media applauded Burrell for taking the time onstage to acknowledge her comments and apologize to the LGBTQ+ community.
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Many, however, felt the apology was insincere, with several adding that actions speak louder than words.
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And some just feel the damage was done and is now beyond repair.
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Burrell, who is also a pastor, went viral in 2016 after making some incredibly homophobic comments during a sermon, preaching:
“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.”
Burrell faced several repercussions, including a canceled appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, losing her own radio show, being dropped from a gospel awards show and being publicly condemned by fellow artists.
Though she did issue an apology on Facebook, Burrell didn't necessarily take back her message, writing:
“I never said LGBT last night, I said S.I.N – and whatever falls under sin is what was preached. I have to do what God tells me to do… and when people take it personal, especially if we’ve never met, you know that the enemy is setting that up.”
“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."
Newsmax Tried To Frighten Viewers With 'Harris Facts' Graphics—And It Totally Backfired
Harris has also secured the support of a majority of pledged delegates as of Monday night, ensuring she will be the Democratic Party’s nominee. The nomination will be made official when the delegates meet at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on August 19.
But Newsmax shared chyrons meant to scare its viewers, as you can see below.
One of them read:
"Harris Facts: Investigated Fossil Fuel Companies"
You can see it below.
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Another read:
"Harris Facts: Supports Massive Corporate Tax Hike"
You can see it below.
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Yet another read:
"Harris Facts: Wanted to Cap Rent and Utility Payments"
You can see it below.
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And still another read:
"Harris Facts: Backed Tax-Funded Medicare-for-All"
You can see it below.
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Of course, to many people online, these graphics actually made the argument FOR Kamala Harris, and were not scary at all.
Harris earlier appeared at her first rally in Wisconsin as the presumptive Democratic nominee and framed her race against former President Donald Trump as a choice between “freedom” and “chaos.”
When Harris arrived in Milwaukee, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries expressed their support for her during a joint press conference in Washington, DC. Schumer in particular said he'd seen a “surge of enthusiasm from every corner of our party” since Biden’s decision to withdraw.
In fact, Harris raised more than $81 million in 24 hours after officially launching her election campaign, and more than $125 million as of Wednesday.
The significant fundraising haul, which includes contributions to the campaign, the Democratic National Committee, and joint fundraising committees, marks the largest 24-hour sum reported by either side in the 2024 campaign. According to Harris' campaign, it is the largest single-day total in U.S. history.
Russell Brand Dragged For Cringey Error-Ridden Post Trying To Mock Kamala Harris And Democrats
Brand took to X, formerly Twitter, to rail against Harris in a rambling diatribe full of fancy-sounding words, the kind of screed people write when they're trying to sound really, REALLY smart and sophisticated.
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Except he mixed up one of the key words in the dumbest, most hilarious way possible.
Brand tweeted:
"If Kamala Harris is to be the new pick in the 'bait n' switch', 'find the lady' cup n' ball trick that we are being offered in lieu of democracy, we already know she's a socially inept and empty instrument of intransigent, institutional power, solely offering cutaneous and genetic novelty to a famished pack of secularist devotees so bewildered that melatonin and an 'X chromosome' could represent to them some kind of pyrrhic victory."
Okay first of all, this is precisely the kind of paragraph your ninth-grade English teacher would have sent back to you with "REVISE" written in the margin and every single one of those ten-dollar words circled with question marks beside them.
Like, he obviously entered the word "skin" into a thesaurus app and got "cutaneous" and was like "ho, ho, THIS will show all the dumb libs!"
He also very clearly doesn't know what "pyrrhic victory" actually means, because the phrase makes absolutely no sense in this context in the most hilarious way possible, but we'll get to that in a minute.
The meaning of Brand's rant is, of course, nonetheless clear—he thinks liberals are dumb for thinking that a Black woman being the Democratic nominee actually means anything. Yawn.
Far more interesting than this incredibly banal take, however, is that Brand, in all his purple-prose intellectual fortitude about race, has confused melanin, the substance in human skin that produces its tone, with melatonin, the sleep hormone you buy at the drug store.
Oh, and just for extra fun he also doesn't appear to know how chromosomes work, since all humans have at least one X chromosome, not just women.
Naturally, Twitter had a field day with this incredibly dunderheaded tweet of Brand's.
But as bad as mixing up melanin and melatonin truly is, it really doesn't hold a candle to Brand's misunderstanding of "pyrrhic victory."
He seems to think it means "an empty or meaningless victory," but what it actually means is an unintended consequence of an effort that basically ensures your destruction.
Such as, for instance, bullying Joe Biden about his age so much that he leaves the race and replaces himself with a candidate who has inspired a level of enthusiasm in the centrist and left-wing electorate we haven't seen since Barack Obama 16 years ago.
Keep that thesaurus handy, Russell—but next time you might want to grab a dictionary to go with it.
