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Before Sex Scandal, Bishop Long Built an Empire
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(Sept. 24) -- Embattled Bishop Eddie Long is not only the pastor of a megachurch but the leader of a spiritual empire who is unapologetic about his success. "We're not just a church, we're an international corporation," Long told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 2005, as he defended himself against criticism that he had profited too generously from a charity his church created. Between 1997 and 2000, the pastor earned $3 million from the charity, Bishop Eddie Long Ministries Inc., the paper showed. The North Carolina-born pastor seemed to bristle at the suggestion that he was being ...
Shirley Sherrod: The Woman Behind the Headline
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyShirley Sherrod is more than a headline. The life of the former and maybe future U.S. Department of Agriculture official, who went from sinner to saint in the space of a news cycle, puts meat on the bones of her tape-recorded tale of redemption and reconciliation. On Thursday, she was offered another apology in what's becoming a long list. President Barack Obama "expressed to Ms. Sherrod his regret about the events of the last several days," according to a White House statement. That would be when an edited tape released by a conservative blogger branded Sherrod, 62, a racist. The unedited ...
Are Black People Really Homophobic?
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyThere always has to be someone to blame. So when California's Proposition 8 – the state constitutional ban on gay marriage – was approved by voters on Nov. 4, the story line was set: African-Americans, who had registered and turned out in record numbers for Barack Obama, delivered crucial, even deciding votes for Prop. 8. Initial reports cited exit polls with seven of 10 black voters backing the initiative. Cue the back-and-forth name-calling. In comments and on blogs, some of the measure's opponents called blacks who voted "yes" bigots. Blacks didn't appreciate being singled out, ...
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