When it rains, it pours: A fourth man is coming forward, reports the AP, with claims that Pastor Eddie Long sexually seduced him. Raise your hand if you think he can beat Tiger Woods! As they say: Developing.
Spencer LeGrande, a member of the New Birth Charlotte Church, which is an affiliate of Long’s in North Carolina, says he met the pastor in May 2005. By July, when the young man was 17 and Long took him on a trip to Kenya, sexual activities began, according to the lawsuit filed by attorney B.J. Bernstein, who is representing the other three victims.
Long, meanwhile, spoke publicly today for the first time since the allegations were made.
On a conference call with parishioners and pastors (and CBS Atlanta, although Long said he didn’t know who was on the call), the embattled pastor said, “We will arise through this situation, and go forward, and we are moving forward. … I have never dealt with anything like this before. I have been under attack before, but everything else has been different levels and different challenges. … Know that I am also praying for the families and the young men who are accusing. I always operate in the spirit of love, and we are going to move through this.”
How about we take this to the next level?
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There was no admission of guilt. And no proclamation of innocence.
edgyguy1426
Damn you beat me to the Tiger Woods comparison.This guy is not married, right?
James UK
Delicious!
john
anderson cooper reported this entire story yesterday.. it was hillarious how much he hinted at things that generally only gay men would pick up on.
Clark
Oh, how wonderful! More, please!
Enron
Ok, I think its safe to say I am beginning to notice a pattern here.
I am so glad this happening, because what it will do is put a lot of scrutiny on pastors who like to bash us.
James UK
And for a discussion as to “who is doing the swallowing”, just watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBwlR0wrhkw&feature=player_embedded
B
No. 5 · Enron wrote, “Ok, I think its safe to say I am beginning to notice a pattern here.” … more complex than that: this one seems to be from a different church. Long could claim that a group of troubled young men decided to conspire to shake him down, but that requires that you would believe they all knew each other. This one seems to be from a different area and presumably does not know the other three.
As to Long saying, “I am also praying for … the young men who are accusing,” it sounds like he might have been down on his knees for quite another reason. As more and more make these accusations, he’s going to have a harder and harder time denying them without looking completely ridiculous.
Steve
What the hell is he wearing?
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
****************SPOILER ALERT********************
If you don’t wish to know the ending of this story I advise you discontinue reading this now! (I always wanted to write that :p)
Ok here is the ending to this p e n i s purchasing preacher man……Within a week Eddie Longs (for cock) will enter a rehab program for some addiction which for some reason compells him to funnel hundreds of dollars absolutley clueless members of his congreation have donated to teen boys. He will emerge from said rehab program with a “stronger than ever” conviction to serve the lord. He will apologize to the poor boys who were “sadly brought into my personal nightmare” and then in a “heartfelt opening to his congregation” with tears running down his face beg for their forgivness and promise to live his life as the lord has reguided him to……….
Group hug now pass the collection plate again……
Sad part is: Will happen as above, he will be forgiven, and they will continue to toss their hard earned wages into this frauds pockets……..
Soupy
wait a minute…I think he molested me once…
Soupy
Yeah…that’s right…I need a lawyer
B
QUEERTY: “By July, when the young man was 17 and Long took him on a trip to Kenya, sexual activities began, according to the lawsuit filed by attorney B.J. Bernstein, who is representing the other three victims.”
Oh oh (for Long): according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_Africa#Kenya “The age of consent in Kenya is 16 years, for heterosexual males, females and female homosexuals. Male homosexuals get 25 years in prison.”
Long apparently did nothing illegal in the U.S., barring new information, but if the sex with this 17 year old was in Kenya, he’s looking at 25 years in prison if the Kenyan authorities nab him. Anyone for extraditing him given his homophobic positions? After all, there’s the “being tried by your peers” thing in American law, and Kenya is officially homophobic, so why not let the punishment fit the crime? … not that our government would actually go along (but we can always joke about it).
B
Re No 9 : “He will apologize to the poor boys who were “sadly brought into my personal nightmare” and then in a “heartfelt opening to his congregation” with tears running down his face beg for their forgivness and promise to live his life as the lord has reguided him to……….”
QUICK – corner the market on onions. He’s going to have to buy a s**t load to generate enough tears to pull this off.
iDavid
Pardon me if I am wrong, but won’t he be the first black preacher to publicly cry for his life (providing that’s the route he takes)in front of a congregation? He has a Jimmy Swaggart ego, and it seems Jimmy ain’t around any more.
If he can pull it off, each tear may be worth a hundred thousand dollars down the line. But that will of course depend on how well an acting coach does his job.
Rashid
This is why perching is poisonous.
Jaroslaw
#5 Enron – in a perfect world, yes, people would be reasonable, rational and logical and scrutinize pastors a bit more. But faith is not reasonable or rational. And you don’t know the Christee-Crazee mind. The faithful will say the Devil had Eddie in his grasp because Eddie was a backslider, succumbed to temptation and has now found his way back to the narrow path….(assuming he admits to anything).
If this happened and he really molested these guys, I feel bad for them but it bothers me that things like this are always combined with lawsuits meaning the lawyers get a HUGE chunk. When large amounts of cash are involved, it is always good to be skeptical.
Cam
I think it’s a well established pattern. If somebody is anti-gay and spends time working for anti-gay causes it is almost a given that they are a closet case. Actual hetros have their own issues to worry about. They may not like us, or have a general feeling of not being cool with gays, but they don’t go out of their way to preach against us, form groups that work against us etc… It’s only people like this guy, Ted Haggard, Georve Reckers etc… that do things like that.
Oh, and on that note, look at the tea party candidate from Delaware. She is supposedly pro-family, but has no family, no history of dating, is fanatically anti-gay and has been forming groups against us for years. I think the GOP has another outing scandal ahead.
David Ehrenstein
Yes he’s married — with children. Your point?
BTW he’s not going to step down. And here’s why —
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC3Gw8bCdTk
Dan
This is why Jesus called straight people sheep. They will follow anything you tell them.
This is also why the only time Jesus ever became physically violent in the bible was to throw the merchants out of the temple. Jesus knew money corrupts religion to the core. That’s why working on the Sabbath is punishable by death (Exodus 35:2). If religion is true, then religious leaders should lead as volunteers, not employees, let alone ones that drive expensive cars and live in million dollar homes like so many mega-church and televangelist leaders.
Michael
@Steve: He has an ice cream truck route and this is the Good Humor Man uniform. He’s a multi-tasker, and you gotta meet the kids somewhere.
B
No. 16 · Dan wrote, “This is why Jesus called straight people sheep. They will follow anything you tell them.” … not exactly – the term sheep is used to refer to his followers.
Christian homophobia is a rather complex issue. Read
http://rictornorton.co.uk/homopho1.htm (and follow links at the end of each page) for an historical account. There were both Jewish and Roman influences (Romans took a dim view of bottoms if they were Roman citizens, but it was OK for a slave to be a bottom because a slave already had a very low status).
SomethingElse
This whole thing could get very ugly.