"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."
See PDF of lawsuit filed by Anthony Flagg …"
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.
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