Gay pastor caught with church member

GAY Pastor CAUGHT on SNAPCHAT SMASHING his church member & Apologizes to his WIFE & FAMILY. Carlus King K subscribers Subscribed. Paul Barnes, founding pastor of the 2,member Grace Chapel in a Denver suburb, told his congregation in a videotaped message he had had sexual relations with other men and was stepping down.

Haggard, 66, is being accused of using methamphetamine and behaving inappropriately with young men at St. James Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, a church he founded in , The Denver. Disgraced evangelical leader Ted Haggard's former church disclosed Friday that the gay-sex scandal that caused his downfall extends to a young male church volunteer who reported having a.

COLORADO SPRINGS – After the Overseer Board at the New Life Church looked into allegations that Pastor Ted Haggard purchased meth and sex from a Denver gay escort, it announced the. The prominent pastor of a 25,member megachurch near Atlanta denies allegations in lawsuits that he coerced two young men from the congregation into a sexual relationship, his attorney said.

The suits claim that Long used his "spiritual authority" to coerce church members "into engaging in sexual acts and relationships for his own personal sexual gratification. The men were and year-old members of the church when they say Long, an outspoken critic of gay rights, abused his spiritual authority to seduce them with cars, money, clothes, jewelry, international trips and access to celebrities.

The pair's attorney, Brenda Joy "B. Craig Gillen, Long's attorney, says the pastor "categorically denies the allegations. He said Long had not yet been served with copies of the lawsuits. The suits claim many of Long's alleged victims are known in the church as his "Spiritual Sons," though it notes that the congregation is "likely unaware" of what allegedly came with the title.

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As teenagers, Robinson and Flagg joined one of the church's ministries, the tuition-based Longfellows Youth Academy. The court documents say the program "purports to train young men to love, live and lead as they proceed on their 'masculine journey,'" and "seeks to create committed men of God. Allegations of sexual impropriety Through the academy, the two young men formed closer relationships with Long, the documents say, but the nature of those relationships crossed the line into impropriety.

On a trip to New Zealand for Robinson's 19th birthday, the suit claims Long engaged in oral sex with him, and that after the getaway, Long "regularly engaged in sexual touching and other sexual acts" with him. It also claims Long regularly gave him cash, paid his college tuition and attempted to "engage in sexual relations" with Robinson during a May grief counseling session after the death of Robinson's best friend.

Flagg's lawsuit states that Long arranged for him to move out of his mother's home so he could provide him with further spiritual guidance. The suit says Flagg's mother believed it would provide "stability and more opportunity to learn and grow with such an important spiritual mentor in her son's life. But the lawsuit alleges that Long started sleeping in the same bed as Flagg, and "engaged in sexual massages" with him.

It says Long "then increased the sexual contact" to include oral sex. Flagg also allegedly traveled with Long; the suit claims that Long and Flagg shared a bedroom on overnight trips and "engaged in intimate sexual contact" which included "kissing, massaging, masturbating Bernstein told reporters after the filing that Long " would use biblical stories to talk about how important it was to follow your leader," but that he also claimed "that the acts that he was engaged in were not necessarily meaning that he was a homosexual or that either of them was.

The Spring issue of the Southern Poverty Law Center's "Intelligence Report" included a profile of Long as part of a larger on black church leaders who "who have joined the historically white-dominated Christian Right movement against homosexuality and homosexuals. When asked about a possible motive for the accusations, Gillen referred to a break-in at Long's office in June. Bernstein said Robinson is indeed facing a criminal burglary charge in the June incident, but she noted that he returned the stolen items, which she said included an iPad and some jewelry.

She said she expects Long and his attorneys to use the incident to paint the defendants as "bad" boys. And it made him angry and confused and it combusted, and lashing out at the bishop in the only way possible," she said. Other possible investigations Bernstein said she contacted the U. Attorney's Office earlier this month when she became aware of the young men's allegations. She did not know what action, if any, the agency planned to take.

Long is on the board of directors for the DeKalb Police Alliance, an organization which says on its website that it supports the work of all the peace officers in the county. Orzy Theus, a spokesman for the DeKalb County district attorney's office, said he was not aware on Tuesday of an investigation in that office related to the allegations. Then, the church had about members.

Less than four years later, the church had grown to more than 8, members. Athletes and entertainers claim membership at the church.

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