Bishop Eddie Long Scandal, Will His Wife Stand With Him? (PICTURES)
Pastor Eddie Long, whose financial empire is threatened as a result of the charges against him by four members of a youth group which he was a mentor, continues to make headlines.
These young people are accusing the founder of New Birth Baptist Church, self-proclaimed “Bishop Long”, for having forced repeatedly to commit homosexual acts with him.
Long the pastor, whose mega-church in suburban Atlanta has over 25,000 members, has denied the accusations.
The man, who denounced homosexuality and marriage between same sex, has already organized seminars to “cure” gays.
The Center on the charges Longfellow Youth Academy, year exclusive group of teenage boys handpicked by Bishop Long for spiritual mentoring.
The boys Went Through a bonding ritual, Known as a “covenant ceremony,” in Which Bishop Long Gave them jewelry and Exchanged vows while quoting With Them from Scripture as ceremonial candles burned, According to short Complaints Filed Against the pastor. Reciting Bible verses, pastor The Promised to Protect Them From Harm and Called them “spiritual sounds.”
The Real Purpose Of The academy WAS to Provide Long With young men Whom he could “lure Into Sex.
Men Say They Were The past-the legal age of consent When Bishop Long Initiated The Relationship. Still, The Charge Have shaken Atlanta’s church-going Society, spurring painful conversations from kitchen tables to talk radio.
Built on la hundred acres, the church of Pastor Long has hosted four U.S. presidents and even the 2006 funeral of Coretta Scott King.
The finances of the religious leader have already sparked controversy.
The newspaper The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has revealed that Bishiop Eddie Long has earned $3 million from 1997 to 2000 in salary and other benefits.
Bishop Eddie Long Scandal, Will His Wife Stand With Him? (PICTURES)
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Why Eddie Long couldn’t not just say:”I didn’t have sex with those four boys”.Period. Is it so difficult.
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Look, why is a pastor taking what might be called in the gay community photos looking like a butch queen ( that is a straight male who is gay, but keep there masculinity) and sending those photos to young men ? Where there also a group to help young women, and if so why hasn’t any young girls come forward. Is it because he was preferred boys ? Let’s not forget the author a few years ago who exposed straight men who are having sex with other men but don’t consider themselves gay and the phase coined for that was living on the down low. In the AIDS community there is a new group of men emerging known as Men who have sex with men, called MSM for short. Wake up people if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it’s a duck. In my opinion he’s a closet butch queen.
Who are we to judge, let us all keep everyone in this situation lifted in prayer, the truth will come out, someone will fall. God is still God. We all have our failures and issues so let’s not be judgemental.
THIS BUFFOON LONG IS GUILTY AS THE DAY IS LONG-PIN INTENDED. WHY TAKING YOUNG BOYS ON TRIPS INSTEAD OF HIS WIFE ? THIS BOY LONG IS NOTHING MORE THAN A PIMP LOWER THAN WHALE -POOP FOR WHAT HE HAS DONE TO THE CHURCH AND THIS FRAUD PERPERTRATED ON THE BLACK COMMUNITY. ALL THE PEOPLE STILL SUPPORTING THIS FOOL, WAKE UP PEOPLE, WORSHIP GOD NOT SOME GREASY BLACK BUFFOON CALLING HIMSELF BISHOP. WHAT IF 1 OF THESE YOUNG BOYS COMING FORWARD WAS YOUR SON OR GRANDSON, THEN WOULD YOU STILL BE DEFENDING THIS PERVERTED SODOMITE. IMAGINE THE SHAME HIS WIFE AN SONS MUST FEEL, THE HUMILIATION KNOWING YOU WERE MARRIED TO A MAN DESIRING OTHER MEN. OR THAT YOU HAVE A FATHER WHO IS A BHOOTY-BANDIT WANTING TO SLEEP WITH YOUNG BOYS, SO SICK AND DISGUSTING. TRUST ME PEOPLE, GODS GONNA CLEAN THIS FILTH UP. ITS HIGH TIME ALL THE GHAYS WERE DRIVEN OUT OF THE CHURCH, ALL THE GAY PIANO AN ORGAN PLAYERS AND ALL THE PERVERTS. TIME TO CLEAN HOUSE.
I would not be surprised if their allegations prove to be true. What I really don’t understand is how can people say “judge not.” Judging refers to the power someone has to alter the course of someone’s life. Do not judge not means don’t write someone off. It doesn’t mean ignore evidence and turn a blind’s eye. It doesn’t mean don’t use common sense and act like it never happened. Preachers are held to a higher standard like it says in James 3 and Jesus said Himself that it is better to drown yourself in the sea (so to speak) than to mess with one of His little ones. Eddie Long is responsible for many little ones, including the ones who watch him on t.v. All truth comes to the light. I’m personally tired of people tolerating sin from those who are supposed to lead. Pastors who fall should be removed from the pulpit…period.