Julian bond and eddie long

Bernice King, the daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Long and the demonstrators marched to denounce gay marriage. The choice of King's site to make the hell fire and damnation point that gay marriage was sinful, degenerate, and against every Biblical precept was painful and insulting to see. The not so subtle implication was that King might well have stood with her and them in their gay bashing protest.

Given King's relentless and uncompromising battle against discrimination during his life, this was beyond pure poppycock; it was well, insulting and painful to see. But even though Long sullied King's name and legacy to torpedo gay rights, the Bishop seemingly was not a hypocrite when it came to denouncing gays.

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He was one of the biggest, best known, and virulent black evangelical attackers of gay marriage. Long had prominently touted then President George W. Bush's federal amendment banning gay marriage on his church Web site. Why, because as Bond flatly said "I knew her attitude toward gay and lesbian rights. And I just couldn't imagine that she'd want to be in that church with a minister who was a raving homophobe.

He obviously couldn't see himself there either. For a brief moment, Long seemed to relent some from his sledgehammer bible quoting attacks on gays when he agreed to meet with Soulforce, a gay Christian lobby organization, at his church in Long's epiphany went no further than the one meeting and a pithy statement from him that there were "things about homosexuality that he needs to learn".

The question then is the accusations from the lengthening list of teen and young male adults who claim that Long bought and paid for their sexual favors true?