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Bishop Eddie Long
Bishop Eddie Long pastors a huge church near Atlanta. He's also one of the most homophobic black ministers in America.
LITHONIA, Ga. — “Men can look attractive when they are dirty,” writes Bishop Eddie Long in his 1997 book I Don’t Want Delilah, I Need You! “We see sweating, dirty, hardworking men on television all the time and we say to one another, ‘There’s a macho guy.’”
Despite this affinity for sweaty, macho men, Long is one of the most virulently homophobic black leaders in the religiously based anti-gay movement. His book, subtitled What a Woman Needs to Know, What a Man Needs to Understand, appeared in the midst of a roaring growth period for Long’s New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Ga., near Atlanta. During the mid-’90s, it swelled to over 18,000 congregation members, men and women who worship in a multimillion-dollar complex that’s the size of most major universities, spread out on 240 acres of land.
Much of what appears in I Don’t Want Delilah was espo
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Eddie Long
Eddie Long | |
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| Born | Eddie Lee Long (1953-05-12)May 12, 1953 Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Died | January 15, 2017(2017-01-15) (aged 63) Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | North Carolina Central University International College of Excellence |
| Occupation | Pastor |
| Years active | 1985–2016 |
| Employer(s) | New Birth Missionary Baptist Church (1987–2017) |
| Spouse(s) | Dabara S. Houston (m. 1981; div. 1985)Vanessa Griffin (m. 1990; "his death" is deprecated; use "died" instead. 2017) |
| Children | |
| Awards | Trumpet Award |
Eddie Lee Long (May 12, 1953 – January 15, 2017)[2] was an Americanpastor. He was the senior pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, a megachurch in unincorporatedDeKalb County, Georgia, from 1987 until his death in 2017.
Career
[change | change source]When Long started as pastor for New Birth Church, there were 300 church members, which g
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