Kim Burrell will not take part in next weekend's BMI Trailblazers of Gospel Music Honors, the performance rights organization announced on Friday (Jan. 6).
The announcement comes amidst a wide backlash against Burrell over a sermon she gave calling homosexuality "perverted."
She has since been dropped from a scheduled performance on Ellen and had her show "Bridging the Gap with Kim Burrell" canceled from Texas Southern University's KTSU radio station.
In a statement, BMI announced Burrell's removal from the ceremony scheduled for Jan. 14:
"BMI's Trailblazers of Gospel Music is an annual celebration of gospel music and its many talented songwriters. Given the controversy surrounding this year’s co-honoree Kim Burrell, we have asked her to not take part in the ceremony in order to allow the focus to remain on the songwriters and their music. BMI was founded over 76 years ago with an open door policy to welcome songwriters across all genres, and that same spirit of tolerance, diversity and inclusiveness continues today."
http://www.billboard.com/articles/ne...onors-anti-gay
We're getting close to the time when the sheep will be separated from the goats, the wheat from the tares. I wonder which category the BMI Gospel Music folks will fall into? smh