Who Fell On Their Knees In Hopeless Cathedrals

Who scribbled all night rocking and rolling over lofty incantations...

"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.....Much of what appears in I Don't Want Delilah was espoused in the videotaped "Back to the Future" sermon Long gave when his church was still small. 

"It is the most unattractive thing I have ever seen, when I see women wearing uniforms that men would wear, and women fighting to get in the military!" Long shouted to his congregation then. "The woman gets perverted to turn towards woman ... and everybody knows it's dangerous to enter an exit! And everybody knows, lady, if you go to the store and buy these devices...

.....which in the yellow morning were stanzas of gibberish:

Two Georgia men have filed suit claiming that prominent Atlanta pastor Eddie Long coerced them into sex. The suits, filed Tuesday in DeKalb County, Georgia, allege that Long used his position as a spiritual authority and bishop to coerce young male members and employees of his New Birth Missionary Baptist Church into sex. 

"Defendant Long has a pattern and practice of singling out a select group of young male church members and using his authority as Bishop over them to ultimately bring them to a point of engaging in a sexual relationship," the suits allege.

Seriously. It's time to stop. It's so time to stop.