It’s the story that everyone is talking about this morning as we hear yet another sex scandal has been unveiled in the black church world.
Another church scandal? According to several news outlets, Bishop Eddie Long, pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist church in Atlanta, with a reported membership of 25,000, is being accused of sexual misconduct by two of his employees.
Here are the actual court documents filed against Bishop Eddie Long by Anthony Flagg and Maurice Robinson in Dekalb County courthouse over sexual assault allegations.
(CNN) — Two Georgia men have filed a lawsuit claiming that prominent Atlanta, Georgia, pastor Eddie Long coerced them into sex.
ATLANTA (AP) — Two men have filed a lawsuit accusing Bishop Eddie Long of exploiting his role as pastor of an Atlanta-area megachurch to coerce them into sexual relationships when they were young members of his congregation. Lawyers for the men, now 20 and 21, say they filed the lawsuit on Tuesday in DeKalb County Court. […]
NN is reporting that two men in Georgia are suing Bishop Eddie Long in Atlanta, alleging that the powerful pastor used his influence to force them in to having sex. Filed in DeKalb County, the suit claims that Long used his position of authority at the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church to persuade the two […]
The memorial celebration for the legendary, Bishop Walter Hawkins at the Paramount Theater in Oakland, California, was held this morning. His maghony-brown casket sat at stage left and was covered with a beautiful flower arrangement. Not clear why the casket wasn’t front and center, but I have my own speculations. Perhaps it was Bishop Hawkins […]
