Gospel singer Kirk Franklin opens up about his bisexual son: “My love for you does not waver based on who you love”
Funky Friday podcast, the 20-time Grammy Award winner spoke candidly about their trying times, which first caught the public’s attention in 2021 after Kerrion leaked audio from an argument in which his father swore, verbally abused, and threatened him.Their fractured relationship worsened after Kerrion came out in an episode of reality show Bad Boys: Los Angeles, in which he was seemingly bullied into discussing his sexuality by fellow castmates.
Subscribe to our newsletter for a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.Now, as Franklin told Newton, he’s “ashamed” of “the lack of control” exhibited in the leaked clip. “No matter what the conversation was, that I felt was a disrespectful conversation, because I’m the father, I have the responsibility,” he explained, adding that he “didn’t do a good job.”While Franklin and his son were estranged for two years, they reconciled in 2023, though he admitted: “There have been good days, and there have been bad days, still.”As far as religious figureheads go, Franklin has tended to lean more liberally than some of his peers.
In 2021, he spoke out against weaponizing the Bible to justify homophobic views. “A lot of people that maybe profess Christianity, they have views that are not even bibliocentric,” he said at the time. “It’s their personal views that they do not understand, sometimes maybe the biology of homosexuality, and so they want to find a scripture to try to justify their own homophobic views.” That said, it sounds like accepting his son for who he is hasn’t been easy.
Last year, Kerrion reshared a family photo posted by his father on his since-deleted Instagram account, writing, “I’m never invited to these pics.
