WHAT?!
The Bishop said what?!
OK, granted it’s text without context, so here comes the context.
Bishop Eddie Long, the Atlanta pastor who has received massive media attention since four young men accused him of sexual coercion last September, is entangled in a dispute with an entrepreneur over $1 million in investments that Long wants returned to his church members.
The week-long dispute has included dueling press statements, an accusation of character assassination and a YouTube video in which Long pleaded with the entrepreneur to show compassion.
Long, senior pastor of New Birth Missionary Church in suburban Atlanta, said in the YouTube video that Ephren Taylor from City Capital Corporation held a “wonderful” financial seminar at his church last year that inspired some members to invest about $1 million in retirement accounts through the corporation.
Long said those investments went “sour” and is asking Taylor and City Capital to return the money because some investors from his 25,000-member church are experiencing hardships.
“Please do what’s right,” Long said, addressing Taylor in the video posted on Sunday. “You’re a great fellow. You’re a great man. You do great things. Let’s settle this so these families can move on.”
Eddie Long is now imploring someone to “do what’s right?” Eddie long wants to settle an issue so “these families can move on.” Eddie Long is on youtube trying to make a “moral” appeal so everyone involved can move forward as painlessly as possible?
See, when a ministerial leader is mired in sexual coercion charges that he has yet to speak to definitively in a public forum, he/she abrogates the supposed moral high ground in which to urge others to “do what’s right.”
When Bishop Eddie Long goes on the record and answers to the charges of sexual coercion (and the inherent implications), then and only then should he be using ANYBODY’S webcam in the supposed interest of helping right an injustice.
Oh, and don’t forget you have your mediation this month on the sexual coercion charges. Hopefully all that camera work hasn’t precluded you from coming to the mediation table and negatively impacted your ability to pull out your checkbook to “do what’s right” so “these families can move on.”
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