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Thursday, September 23, 2010

Religion / Homo Rabidly Anti-Gay Christian Pastors with iPhones

Posted by Dan Savage on Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:42 AM

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Gee... he sorta looks like the kinda guy who has sex with men—but, hey, maybe my gaydar on the fritz. And he fits the Ted Haggard/George Rekers mold...

The prominent pastor of a 25,000-member megachurch near Atlanta denies allegations in a lawsuit that he coerced three young men from the congregation into a sexual relationship, his attorney said. Lawyers for two of the men, now 20 and 21, filed the lawsuit Tuesday in DeKalb County Court against Bishop Eddie Long, also a well-known TV personality. The third lawsuit was filed Wednesday.... Long has called for a national ban on same-sex marriage and his church—the sprawling New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in the Atlanta suburb of Lithonia—counsels gay members to become straight. In 2004, he led a march with Bernice King, a daughter of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., to her father's Atlanta grave to support a national constitutional amendment to protect marriage "between one man and one woman."

I'm sure it's all a big misunderstanding and Pastor Long—excuse me, Bishop Long—is completely heterosexual.

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