Another evangelical cleric has been accused of sexual misconduct with male members of his flock. This time it's the charismatic Atlantian, Bishop Eddie Long.
He is accused of being the sugar daddy of the Baptist faith. Using his tremendous wealth and influence as the head of one of the largest mega-churches in the nation to coerce carefully selected young gays into sexual liaisons with him in exotic locations (at the church's expense). They checked into hotels under "Dick Tracy" (an alias I presume >_<) and proceeded to engage in all manner of debauchery that only the sexually repressed christian mind could concoct.
After he gave them cars, paid their college tuition and introduced them to celebrities, they were summarily dismissed as their youth had expired. So naturally, in true cunt-queen fashion, the next step would be to sue. Even if the case is dismissed, the house would have already burnt to the ground.
That this is the first black evangelical (to my recollection) to get caught up in a gay sex scandal is enough to make me salivate then break out into vulgar guffaws.
I'm sure sisters Donnie McKlurkin and Tyler Perry are beside themselves with grief and T.D. Jakes is looking over at his son Jermaine and shaking his head disapprovingly.
The black christian gay-not-gay facade is crumbling.
Black evangelicals have long been immune to criticism about the virulent homophobia they spew from the pulpits of their gaudy mega-churches. Black Americans have apparently been given license to be discriminatory and prejudiced as some sort of reparations for slavery and consolation prize for Jim Crow. But recent revelations of hypocrisy in the black church are particularly gratifying to many (myself included).
That Long used church resources to pay hush-money for his trysts is not THAT disturbing. That is the kind of activity I expect from reprobate minds such as his. That he penned some of the most hateful diatribes, sermons, and chapters; and uttered some of the most damning rhetoric relating to homosexuality from his tongue (the same tongue used to polish the sausages of young parishioners) is what really irks me.
Whether or not the cases amount to anything is at this point immaterial. The damage has already been done.
As we say in Jamaica: "If it no go so, it nearly go so". That is not the apologist rhetoric of a gossip monger per se: it is useful advice after centuries of scandal.
Here's the perspective I'm too shy to share....
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