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A recording of the gospel singer delivering an anti-gay sermon went viral over the holiday weekend, causing immediate backlash.
Ellen DeGeneres has confirmed on Twitter that gospel singer Kim Burrell, whose anti-gay sermon went viral over the weekend, will not be performing as scheduled on her show this Thursday.
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Burrell was scheduled to perform a song from the Hidden Figures soundtrack alongside Pharrell Williams, but a recording of the singer delivering a sermon in which she described homosexuality as “perverted” led to immediate backlash.
In the video, Burrell, who serves as a pastor at the Love & Liberty Fellowship Church in Houston, can be seen addressing a church crowd.
“You, as a man, you open your mouth and take a man’s penis in your face — you are perverted,” Burrell says in the recording. “You are a woman and will shake your face in another woman’s breast — you are perverted.”
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The singer responded to her critics in a Facebook Live video, which has since been deleted.
“I never said 'LGBT' last night, I said 'S-I-N,'” she explains. “And whatever falls under sin was preached. What was posted isn’t how I preached too — but only that. Isn’t that something. That is the design of the enemy, to make it look like I have a personal agenda against people.”
“To every person who is dealing with the homosexual spirit, I love you because God loves you,” she concludes. “But God hates the sin.”
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