Gospel singer Yolanda Adams is standing firm on her support for LGBTQ+ people. Adams, who has expressed her support for the community in the past, once again spoke up in their favor during her appearance on Wednesday’s episode of The Clay Cane Show, according to Them.
What did Yolanda Adams say about the LGBTQ+ people?
Adams was asked to explain why she welcomes LGBTQ+ folks into the church. She let it be known that the church is a place for people of all backgrounds.
“There are plenty of LGBT people in the Black church… and they love that space. And you have never used your religion, your faith, to hurt people,” Adams told Cane.
Adams noted that her attitude reflects the way she was raised: “Listen, I am 64 years old,” she said. “I have seen everything in the church… It has everything to do with the way you were nurtured. My family nurtured us to believe and know that everyone that gets to this earth got here because they are God’s children. And why would you want to ever hurt anything that God loves?”
The four-time Grammy winner also shared that she has many loved ones who are part of the LGBTQ+ community.
“I never looked at them as anything other than beautiful people,” she said. “It is not my job, ever, to hurt anyone or bash anyone because of who they are. God is not surprised by anyone he created. He knew who you would be even before your mom and dad even got together. So why am I disrespecting what God respects and loves?”
During Adams’ interview with The Faith Community Virtual via YouTube in November 2025, she encouraged fellow Christians to be more open-minded.
“I don’t think that God is this small entity that people are trying to make Him or her or it, because he is spirit,” she said at the time. “We are of the mind of calling things gender-wise, because that’s how we grew up. We say ‘He’… If He made all things and if He created all things, God is a God of variety. God is a God of diversity. We wouldn’t have a million genuses of flowers if He were not.”
What happened between Kim Burrell and Yolanda Adams?
Because Adams has been a fierce advocate for the LGBTQ+ community for years, she has clashed with some other gospel singers who disagree with her views. As Blavity reported, in 2022, fellow gospel singer Kim Burrell appeared on The Tamron Hall Show, where she addressed the seemingly homophobic comments she made back in 2016. Burrell told host Tamron Hall that she wished Adams hadn’t called her out in public.
“I would’ve much preferred, especially dealing with gospel, Yolanda Adams, we’re both from Houston, Texas, to pick up the cell phone and say, ‘Hey, I have a career to save, and I can’t agree with your stance right now, I need to say something different to my public.’ I would’ve preferred that,” Burrell told Hall, per Blavity.
“I came to tell you about sin. That sin nature. That perverted homosexual spirit, and the spirit of delusion and confusion, it has deceived many men and women, and it’s caused us pain on the body of Christ… You as a man, you open your mouth and take a man’s penis in your face, you are perverted… You are a woman and will shake your face in another woman’s breast, you are perverted,” Burrell said during her controversial sermon, Deadline reported.