Black ministry leaders are denouncing Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's (D-Illinois) effort to appease homosexual activists by adding a homosexual minister to his weekend gospel tour lineup.

Homosexual activists had criticized Obama's "Embrace the Change" tour in South Carolina because the performers included gospel singer Donnie McClurkin, who preaches that God delivered him from homosexuality and can do the same for others. The Illinois Senator, who said he "strongly disagrees" with McClurkin's views, has now invited Andy Sidden, a South Carolina pastor who is openly homosexual, to appear at Sunday's event in Columbia.

Dean Nelson heads the Network of Politically Active Christians (NPAC), a ministry of Wellington Boone Ministries, and believes that Senator Obama is failing to show that he is a leader with "true Christian convictions." Nelson says that Obama is trying to get a boost from African-Americans in the early primary state.

"But I'm hoping that most of the African-Americans in that state will understand that they cannot compromise the convictions of the Bible for any man, or for any party," he says.

Bishop Harry Jackson Jr. of the High Impact Leadership Coalition tells American Family News that Obama has "prostituted the gospel" by defending the homosexual lifestyle.

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