Maybe as likely as some other gay had a jealous conflict with him. “Don’t embarrass Obama by being gay” is less likely than “don’t embarrass Obama by 20 years of hate-whitey speeches.”
UNLESS.
Said person had some kind of actual affair with Obama and someone didn’t want him to live to tell the tale.
Again given the weird confession that Obama made in his memoir (or the one that was ghost written for him), that would hardly seem scandalous by comparison. If having a mentor in his pants musing on mutual urine stains didn’t derail his path to the White House, why should this?
The problem is that Young wasn’t the only young, openly-gay Black male who attended that church to be killed in a similar manner within the space of a couple of months.