Bishop Eddie Long, the pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Georgia, has been accused of bribery and sexual coercion by three young men of his congregation. The good Bishop reportedly offered them expensive gifts and money in exchange for sexual favors from these men while they were teenagers.
The alleged victims, Maurice Robinson, 20, Anthony Flass, 21, and Jamal Parris, 23, were all 16 or over at the time of the abuse and therefore were of the legal age of consent in the state. These men have filed a lawsuit against the pastor, which includes compromising pictures, text messages, emails and phone calls.
Some of the pictures Bishop Eddie Long took of himself while wearing tight fitting clothing and sent these boys were leaked (pictures below). The pastor’s attorney, Craig Gillen, defends his client in a statement:
“The photos don’t corroborate these charges. [Bishop Long] is a health advocate, he’s a weight lifter. He’s a fella, who’s gonna go to work and he’s gonna have on a muscle shirt. And you know he may show up in church in a muscle shirt. There’s nothing really in those photographs that seems to me corroborative of these allegations.”
Long has canceled a press conference and other public appearances, but he promised he would address his congregation during Sunday’s service. Eddie Long, who’s married to Vanessa Griffin Long, has been described as “one of the most virulently homophobic black leaders in the religiously based anti-gay movement.”
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