Sexual coercion: ‘You’re a monster,’ accuser tells US bishop
From sunnewspapers
Thursday, September 30, 2010

One of the young men who has accused an American pastor in Georgia of sexual coercion told Atlanta television station WAGA that he wanted to send a message to Bishop Eddie Long: “You are not a man. You are a monster.”

“I cannot get the sound of his voice out of my head, I cannot forget the smell of his cologne and I cannot forget the way that he made me cry many nights when I drove in his cars on the way home,” Jamal Parris, 23, told a WAGA reporter who traveled to Colorado to interview him.

Parris, a former church employee and personal assistant to Long filed one of four lawsuits last week accusing the Baptist televangelist of coercing young male church members into having sex with him.

Long’s spokesman, Art Franklin, has said that the pastor “categorically and adamantly denies” the allegations, adding that they were “a case of retaliation and a shakedown for money by men with some serious credibility issues.” Long’s Attorney Craig Gillen said Wednesday that Long’s accusers and their lawyers were unfairly trying the pastor in the media. “The appropriate place to try lawsuits is in the courtroom,” Gillen said. “There are rules on how civil litigation is to take place and how counsel should conduct themselves, we intend to follow those rules.”

Speaking from the pulpit of his New Birth Missionary Baptist Church Sunday, Long said he would fight the allegations, but did not address specific accusations. “I am not the man that has been portrayed on television,” he told his congregation.

But Parris told WAGA that his suffering was real, and he had a message for Long. “That man cannot look me in the eye and tell me we did not live this pain. While you can sit in front of the church and tell them that you categorically deny it, you can’t say that to our face,” he said. “And you know this. You are not a man. You are a monster.



why didnt they report him after the first incident??

something smells fishy here

Touch and judge not "his" anointed. Why so many of his "anointeds" are such sleaze balls could be traced back to the nature of "his very self".

Grown men crying too? WTF?!

MrPrsdent:

why didnt they report him after the first incident??

something smells fishy here

Yea, something smells fishy cos I don't know why the four guys found it better to report now. Then again, I don't know why a whole bishop of a church will send pics of him in tight clothing to some teenagers.

'Thy rod and thy staff, they follow me.'