I m not gay no more

Earlier this week, a video of a year-old man proclaiming to be “gay no more” at Church of God in Christ’s th Holy Convocation in St Louis, Missouri, went viral, and I didn’t blog it because, well, it was just too easy.

But now that his excitement over being “cured” has been given some musical accompaniment, how can I resist?

Lyrics:

“I’m not gay no more. I am delivered! I don’t like mens no more. I said I like women. Women, women, women, women! I said women! I’m not gay! I would not date a man! I would not carry a purse! I would not put on makeup! I will, I will devotion a women.”

In a recent post, I made a fantastic deal of hay out of Andrew Caldwell, the star of that “I’m Not Gay No More” ex-gay church video that went viral a adj weeks ago. I think my analysis of the troubling reasons why many of us set up the clip so funny still stands, but in illumination of recent news, it seems worth acknowledging that Caldwell is not the innocent victim that many originally took him to be.  

According to a post at Slate’s sister site The Root, Caldwell has created a comical musical remix album of his testimony at the Church of God in Christ convention and is hawking it on iTunes for $ COGIC, as you might conceive , is none too pleased. The Root’s Yesha Callahan has more:

According to TMZ, the Church of God in Christ is threatening to sue Caldwell because it said the audio from the church service belongs to it. The church wants Caldwell to stop selling the song, even though Caldwell says he holds a copyright to it. In addition to having an issue with the melody, the church feels that Caldwell is making a mocke

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