If you thought Shirley Caesar was going to reach a new generation after the “You Name It Challenge,” you thought wrong. After fellow gospel singer, Kim Burrell’s homophobic comments made mainstream news, many expressed their dissent, including Burrell’s collaborator Pharrell Williams and <em>Hidden Figures</em> star Janelle Monae, the soundtrack on which Burrell is featured. But Caesar was not of those people.
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Instead, she defended Burrell and took it a step further, saying "You [Kim Burrell] should’ve said something 4 years ago when our President made that stuff alright.”
Caesar is likely referring to President Obama’s support of LGBT rights. It was actually the Supreme Court who made gay marriage legal.
Even though the quote is clearly in support of Kim’s message, she likely didn’t agree with the delivery. In the longer segment, she said:
<blockquote><em>“We’re living in critical times now and I want to say to every pastor, the Lord dropped this in my spirit. Anytime you want to say something to your church, to your members, collect the phones at the door. Because…one phone is about a million people by itself. So now, with all of these people, if there’s something that you want to say "in house," you better have the ushers get all of their phones and the other people’s phones. Get the ushers, the deacons, get all of their phones. </em>
<em>I come tonight to tell you that all of us have made a whole lot of mistakes. If walls could talk, if hotel beds could talk. So if you were going to say something, you should’ve said something 4 years ago when our President made that stuff alright.</em>
<em>But being a Pastor I’m learning to process it before I speak. I’m learning now to not speak too fast because once it’s out there, it’s gone.”</em></blockquote>
You can watch the entire clip in the video below.
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en"><a href="https://twitter.com/_JustDenver">@_JustDenver</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Fofo_Duba">@Fofo_Duba</a> this is the full segment between songs she sang and I had friends there who were offended and uncomfortable <a href="https://t.co/hwK9X4bpXP">pic.twitter.com/hwK9X4bpXP</a></p>
— J-Sun (@SUN_Of_Uhhh) <a href="https://twitter.com/SUN_Of_Uhhh/status/816897211372105728">January 5, 2017</a></blockquote>
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God forbid pastors just stop preaching hateful messages altogether. Furthermore, the church has taken this “in the world but not of the world” a bit too far. Aren’t Christians called to make the world a better place? To spread the love of Jesus Christ? I don’t know how speaking hate within the four walls of the church, no matter how it’s delivered, helps to accomplish that call.
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