" whites don't expect very much in the way of complexity " H-mm ..is this from the same group who gave us the Iraq , Panama , Grenada , Viet Nam wars ; who still obssess over OJ? Blacks are the most thoughtful people in these united states .it's whites who are the simple- minded , fawning, idiots who believe themselves superior when evidence to the contrary abound ! whites who imagine we are the best this and that as things fall apart . Blacks do not run this nation nor it's institutions. Whites who favor things over people . white thought is considered the standard . what the minister stated is simply a belief shared by many .why is he castigated for giving his opinion ? why can you not say i disagre with what you say but I have a different opinion.Why is what he said confused with science which has made no definitive assertion on the subject ?

Obama is nobody's house Negro. He does not have to explain nor apologize. If the Gays don't like it too bad. Just remember, without the Black vote, you will get another 8 years of Jeb Bush.

Sorry, you cant please everyone, the idea that Obama is suppose to champion the gay cause because he is black and liberal is just as bad as black people voting for him because he is black.
The gays dont like it, vote for some one else. And what is the writers beef with the black church. Their views are no different or single mined as the white ones. She disparges the church's every step than turns around and ask that they do more. There is a trend going on attacking the black church and blaming it for being close minded. This from the people who abandon the church because they did not like the rules and than wonder why there is HIV, attacks against women, unwed mothers and so on. Guess what Mr. and Ms. "spiritual the churches rules are what prevented the spread of these illness in the black community. You dont like the chuch you can find some where else to worship too.

How on earth would supporting equal rights for ALL CITIZENS - regardless of gender, race, religion, or sexual orientation/identity - make Obama a "house Negro"?

kelly g, a gay man is a "double minded" man, it is a condition that we pray for deliverance from. Many have been healed. Praise the Lord. We love the sinner, just not the sin. I use to be married to old man Whisky, but praise the Lord, I got deliverance.

I don't know what "Christianism" is, but homosexuality is the exact same thing as Anton Lavey's Satanism.

Dedbra, sorry your post so far has only collected the comments of a few ignorant homophobes. For the record, sexuality aside, I think your points here are valuable. Is Obama going to follow the black mainstream and pander to religiously inspired bigotry or follow the higher path of fairness that past black leaders truly understood because they were living out a reality of inequality that no amount of juiced up rappers on MTV could sweeten with pretty ladies, drugs and gold chains?

Paul, be thankful we don't live under the Communists. It's disappointing to see Che Guevara glorified on the college campuses. The man was a Marxist-Leninist of the worst kind: He presided over the Cuban Revolution's first firing squads; he assisted in the persecution of homosexuals, herded into buses and trucks, the 'unfit' would be transported at gunpoint into concentration camps organized on the Guanahacabibes mold.

From where I sit, Obama did not personally make any statements that could be construed as offensive to homosexuals, Donnie McClurkin did.

The article assumes that Obama supports Mr. McClurkin's statements because Mr. McClurkin made these statements at an event that surports Obama.

For homosexuals to desert Obama enmasse because of the statements of one Obama surporter is frankly, kneejerk.

Homosexuals, if need be, should direct their wrath at McCurkin, not Obama.