Grrrr....Call me "Daddy"!

I'm sorry, but people are just so damn greedy that they'll follow anyone who tells them what they want to hear. And they get what they deserve.

The story is about Bishop Eddie Long, pastor of mega evangelical New Birth Baptist Church in Lithonia, Georgia--A church with 30,000 members and a mission to reorient homosexuals. As it turns out Long is a closeted "Catcher" on my team! The hypocrite bench just got a little longer...oh my.

(Not the photos of the Bishop used in actual church literature--actually the pics he sent to young men and boys to seduce them into having sex)

Now lest you think this is a still some small fish in a little pond here's a quote from Wikipedia: "In 2006, Long was chosen by the family of Martin Luther King, Jr. to host and officiate the funeral for Mrs. Coretta Scott King, wife of the late civil rights pioneer. The event was attended by four Presidents (George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Jimmy Carter)."

Furthermore, "CNN has said "Long frequently denounces homosexual behavior." Long has ministered “homosexual cure” programs to recruit gays and lesbians for what he called “Sexual Reorientation” conferences and his church offers an ongoing “Out of the Wilderness” ministry to help convert homosexuals into heterosexuals. In 2004, Long led a march with Bernice King to her father Martin Luther King, Jr.'s grave against same-sex marriage and to support a national constitutional amendment to protect marriage "between one man and one woman." A 2007 article in the Southern Poverty Law Center's magazine called him "one of the most virulently homophobic black leaders in the religiously based anti-gay movement.""

And now this....my, my.

In the lawsuit filled by one of the plaintiffs, Jamal Parris, the following points were listed among the allegations:

39. Defendant Long would encourage Jamal Parris to call him "Daddy."

40. Initially, Defendant Long engaged in sexual touching during their encounters and then escalated the activity to oral sodomy and other acts of sexual gratification.

41. Defendant Long would discuss the Holy Scripture to justify and support the sexual activity.

46. On these trips and in private meetings at the Bishop's private office located inside New Birth Missionary Baptist Church and Snapfinger Road Guest House, Bishop Eddie Long engaged in oral sodomy, seuxal massages, requested Plaintiff Parris to be nude in his presence, and engaged in other sexual activity with Plaintiff Parris.

All of the plaintiffs stated that they began an affiliation with Long when each was just 14 years old. But that he coerced each of them into a sexual relationship with gifts, trips, and money. So far, members of the preacher's church seem to be denying that he would engage in such an activity, especially since he is against homosexuality, but Long has yet to come forward himself to address the charges.

14!? -- OFF THE TEAM, baby! Who doesn't like to be called "Daddy" after a certain age, but it's a fantasy Bishop Long, not a Biblical mandate!