{"id":83191,"date":"2026-01-06T08:59:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T08:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=83191"},"modified":"2026-01-06T08:59:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T08:59:21","slug":"grammy-winning-gospel-singer-and-pray-the-gay-away-pastor-accused-of-sexually-abusing-young-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/06\/grammy-winning-gospel-singer-and-pray-the-gay-away-pastor-accused-of-sexually-abusing-young-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Grammy-winning gospel singer and &#8216;pray the gay away&#8217; pastor accused of sexually abusing young man"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1TDCOE.img?w=534&amp;h=300&amp;m=6&amp;x=324&amp;y=93&amp;s=217&amp;d=217\" alt=\"The molestation began during Donnie's 'pray the gay away' spiritual sessions and escalated over the next several years, the lawsuit said\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Donnie McClurkin, a Grammy-winning gospel singer and pastor who helped \u201cpray the gay away,\u201d has been accused of sexually abusing a young man over several years. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-in\/entertainment\/news\/grammy-winning-gospel-singer-and-pray-the-gay-away-pastor-accused-of-sexually-abusing-young-man\/ar-AA1TDqKy?ocid=BingNewsSerp\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Donnie McClurkin, a Grammy-winning gospel singer and pastor who helped \u201cpray the gay away,\u201d has been accused of sexually abusing a young&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Donnie-McClurkin.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83193,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83191\/revisions\/83193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}