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Kirk Franklin Speaks Out : The Bible Isn’t Written to Attack Gays!

<p>If you have been keeping up with this season&&num;8217&semi;s Love and HipHop Hollywood then you would have seen how Miles &&num;8220&semi;coming out&&num;8221&semi; story unfolded&period; One memorable scene was when Miles came out to his sisters and one of them said &&num;8220&semi;We have morals&period; So what you just saying f&ast;ck God&period;&period;is that what you saying&quest;&&num;8221&semi; This statement does show the apparent homophobia that plagues the black community at times more so the black church&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Well Grammy Award winning Gospel artist&comma; Kirk Franklin&comma; has recently apologized on behalf of the black church for its homophobic nature&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The &&num;8220&semi;Stomp&&num;8221&semi; artist said&comma; ”I want to apologize for all of the hurtful and painful things that have been said about people in the church that have been talented and gifted and musical&comma; that we&&num;8217&semi;ve used and we&&num;8217&semi;ve embarrassed&&num;8230&semi; and all this other horrible crap that we&&num;8217&semi;ve done&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Kirk wants the focus of church to get back to grace and love regardless of ones sexual preference&period; Kudos to Kirk Franklin for being a role model and denouncing &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;biblical bullying&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Very few gospel artist in general have spoken out against how LGBT is heavily frowned upon in the black church&period; &&num;8220&semi;We have not treated them like people&period; We&&num;8217&semi;re talking about human beings&comma; men and women that God has created&comma; he told The Grio&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Kirk then made the perfect statement to sum it up&comma;&&num;8221&semi;I mean&comma; you want to talk about things that God gets at&&num;8230&semi; pride and jealousy and envy and arrogance&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he said&period; &&num;8220&semi;But what we also see is God sending his son to save us all&comma; because we were all&&num;8230&semi; straight&comma; gay or whatever&comma; lost and in need of a savior&comma; and there&&num;8217&semi;s room at the cross for all of us&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Roomies&comma; lets chat below&excl; Do you agree with Kirk apology&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13592" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;11&sol;kirk-f-300x169&period;jpg" alt&equals;"kirk f" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"169" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>TSR Intern&colon;Kamille Jemison &commat;KamilleJemison<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;bet&period;com&sol;news&sol;celebrities&sol;2015&sol;11&sol;12&sol;kirk-franklin-apologizes-for-homophobia-in-the-black-church&period;html&quest;CID&equals;FB<&sol;p>&NewLine; <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-wrap wpra-plugin-container" style&equals;"justify-content&colon; center&semi;&semi;"> <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-container" data-ver&equals;"1&period;3&period;10" data-post&lowbar;id&equals;"13591" data-show&lowbar;count&equals;"true" data-enable&lowbar;share&equals;"onclick" data-behavior&equals;"regular" data-animation&equals;"true" data-share&lowbar;url&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;kirk-franklin-speaks-out-the-bible-isnt-written-to-attack-gays&sol;" data-secure&equals;"48a9db8d67"> <div class&equals;"wpra-call-to-action" style&equals;"color&colon; 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