Gospel Singer Kim Burrell Apologizes to LGBTQ Community for Past ‘Hurtful’ Comments Against Them

Kim Burrell is a Grammy-nominated gospel singer and ‘pastor’ of Spirit of Faith Christian Center in Maryland, who previously garnered a bit of controversy after, in 2022, she mocked congregants for being “broke” and “ugly,” suggesting they were beneath her, and again in early 2024 after she acted like a diva over another member of the worship team singing along with her.

Now, she’s apologizing for her 2017 ‘anti-LGBTQ’ comments. She told the audience at the 39th annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards, for which the 51-year-old was accepting the Aretha Franklin Icon Award, that she was sorry for her “hurtful” comments in the past. What were those hurtful comments?

โ€œI came to tell you about sinโ€ฆ That sin nature, that perverted homosexual spirit is the spirit of delusion and confusion, it has deceived many men and women and it has cast a stain on the body of Christ. You as a man, you open your mouth and take a manโ€™s penis in your face, you are perverted. You are a woman and will shake your face in another womanโ€™s breast, you are perverted. It has come to our church and it has embarrassed the Kingdom of God.โ€

Sounds good to us. Now, however, she’s seemingly backtracked and singing a different tune, telling the audience while accepting the award:

“Over the course of time and with much soul-searching, I come to fully understand the reach and impact of my voice beyond Gospel music. There is such a care to take when you realize youโ€™re not just preaching to the choir anymore. Youโ€™re preaching to the ones who wanted to be in the choir and were too scared to come because they didnโ€™t understand our language.

โ€ฆ [I] understand that some of my past words, comments, preaching has been received by the LGBTQ+ community as negative and hurtful. Thereโ€™s nothing more hurtful than to think โ€” to imagine โ€” that youโ€™ve said something in the name of God, and it hurt somebody.

You know we have a church lingo, we have a church jargon that everybody doesnโ€™t get. And sometimes you have to say it for the people in the back. And for that, I want to apologize to the LGBTQ community. Letโ€™s give them a great big round of applause. We want them to have strength and to sincerely know that we must all do the work to embrace all of Godโ€™s people and show forth his love to everyone, amen?

Tonight, I hope this award and this moment can be the beginning of bridge-building and listening to each other as we follow peace with all men and develop the character of God, which requires seeing God.โ€

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