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Update: Ex-Trans Church Member Defends Kim Burrell: ‘She Didn’t Shun Me’

Gospel singer Kim Burrell continues to suffer the consequences of her fire and brimstone sermon, attacking down-low gay people in the church.

Burrell’s sermon at her Houston church last Friday was captured on video and has since gone viral on social media.

“I came to tell you about sin,” Burrell said. “That perverted homosexual spirit is a spirit of delusion and confusion and has deceived many men and women, and it has caused a strain on the body of Christ.”

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She continued: “You, as a man, you open your mouth and take a man’s penis in your face, you are perverted! You are a woman and will shake your face in another woman’s breast, you are perverted!”

The reaction on social media was swift. Openly lesbian daytime talk show host Ellen DeGeneres canceled Burrell’s appearance on her show. DeGeneres later said she didn’t want to give Burrell a platform.

But not everyone is critical of Burrell.

When church member O’Rhonde Chapman first met Burrell, he said she opened her arms to him. O’Rhonde was an openly gay, cross-dressing student at Nimitz High School in Houston.

“Kim Burrell loves people,” Chapman told Houston CBS affiliate KHOU. “[Burrell] supported me, embraced me, encouraged me and inspired me to be all that I have become today,” he added.

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O’Rhonde endured years of bullying by other classmates when he joined Burrell’s Life and Liberty Fellowship Church.

“I was openly gay at the time,” he said. “So [she] embraced me. She didn’t shun me. She didn’t have hatred towards me. She treated me in a way that I was supposed to be treated.”

O’Rhonde defended Burrell’s freedom of speech, saying the problem wasn’t the content of her message but the way her message was received by hand-wringing liberals.

He said Burrell’s message was “every bit of pure—no matter how it’s being received.”

Update July 23, 2022:

O’Rhonde, 30, is a fashion designer, stylist, fashion expert and entrepreneur, residing in Atlanta, Ga. He is a national reporter for Newsweek magazine.

O’Rhonde credits Kim Burrell with helping him convert from a cross-dressing gay male to a heterosexual.

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