"As Bishop Eddie Long poked through a salad in his church office one summer day in 1999, he shot a weary look at a person ticking off his ministry's successes.
His Atlanta megachurch had already reached 25,000 members. He had been invited to the White House, built a global television ministry and drove around town in a $350,000 Bentley.
But Long told the visitor who had come to write about him that the pressures of being a high-profile pastor could be brutal.
"You don't want any of this," he said in a raspy baritone as he shook his head. "You don't want any of this ..."
Long didn't get more specific about those pressures.
Today, the 57-year-old minister, known for his public crusades against homosexuality, faces serious allegations.
On Tuesday, two young men who were members of Long's New Birth Missionary Baptist Church filed lawsuits claiming he used his position as their spiritual counselor to coerce them into sexual relationships.
See PDF of lawsuit filed by Maurice Robinson
The men -- Anthony Flagg, 21, and Maurice Robinson, 20 -- allegeLong used a private spiritual ceremony to mark a "covenant" between them, with both becoming his "spiritual son."
Here we go again…This happens over and over again. What make me sick and mad about this sort of thing is that the more a person attacks gays the more they turn out to be gay. Think about about it and you will see I am correct.
The right wing "family value" Jesus loving Republican guys are always the very ones getting their dicks sucked by some young staff member.
I do not care what adults do as long as it does not hurt someone. I do not care if adult guys suck each others dicks as long as I do not have to see it or hear about it. I do fucking care and it makes me fucking sick and fucking mad when a guy goes around attacking gays and he is doing the same thing.
You say a gay guy is evil, he is a sinner, he should die and he will burn in hell for all time and then you go down and suck his dick and then you bend over and let him fuck you in the ass.
I just read the PDF lawsuit by Maurice Robinson. It is worst that I was thinking. He was having sex with boys that were not of legal age. He was using church money to buy them cars, give them money, give them gifts and everything else. It is not pretty.
Most heterosexuals must have some gay in them, because they also participate in those sex acts you were referring to. So a person's sexual orientation should not preclude them from receiving equal rights?
Posted by: Anthony D. Jordan | Saturday, September 25, 2010 at 01:44
I will carry it a step past that...Let us take males. I think that male "heterosexuals" have some gay in them. So take, as an example, 100 heterosexual males and say we have a scale of 1 to 10. Say a 1 is 100% gay. Say 10 is 100% not gay. I think each male is going to fall someplace on that scale. Of course we all are going to say we are 10 on the scale.
Is any male going to be 10 on the scale. I would say yes.. but I would say it is 40% of males. The other 60% I would say would fall someplace else on the scale.
I knew a guy that would buy gay videos but he would not buy them if there was a guy in the video. So he ended up with women doing each other. I was thinking that was just his thing..liking seeing women do each other. Later in life I found out he was gay.
It is to bad that people can not be honest with them self and with other people. It is to bad that we can not be accepting of other people.
I am not sure if any study has been done.. My guess is many have been doing...
Back in 2005 I posted about the Gay Meter. It is an online test you take to see how gay you are. Here is the link: http://bit.ly/a1K5Yg
I took the test and it had me as 50% gay!
A very gay online friend took it and it had him as less gay that me!
I just took the test again and it says I am now 53% gay! My God, I am getting gayer with each year.
Posted by: Jim Howard | Saturday, September 25, 2010 at 03:18