Senator Barack Obama, trailing Hillary Clinton badly in South Carolina among blacks, has scheduled a 3 day tour with gospel singers to try and gain support among the conservative black Christians in that state.But one of those gospel singers, Donnie McClurkin, has made some controversial comments about gays that has him - and now Obama - in hot water with liberal Democrats. From a Washington Post story in 2004:Gospel singer Donnie McClurkin, who has detailed his struggle with gay tendencies and vowed to battle "the curse of homosexuality," said yesterday he'll perform as scheduled at the Republican National Convention on Thursday, despite controversy over his view that sexuality can be changed by religious intervention. "I can't let off. I didn't call myself -- God called me to do what I do," McClurkin told The Post's Hamil R. Harris. The Grammy winner declared, "If this is a war, we are willing to fight. Not a war of violence, but a war of purpose."...(Read Full Post)