For the past few weeks, we’ve heard about all the negative stuff from the Bishop Eddie Long ordeal. And now, a 20-year-old college student is speaking up in an attempt to portray much more positive side of Bishop Long, who is accused by four young men of requiring sexual favors in exchange for gifts. I hope people don’t forget about all the good Long did for his community.
Gossiponthis is reporting: in a recent news interview with Atlanta’s 11 Alive, Marcus Culliver, a student of Talledega College in Alabama and a former “spiritual son†of Bishop Long, recalls how the bishop took him under his wing like a son by taking him to his first NFL game, paying for football camp in high school and taking care of anything else he needed. Culliver also talked about how he went to church and school with Long’s four accusers, as well as the Longfellow Academy at New Birth (Long’s church), but says he saw nothing out of the ordinary.
“At Longfellow we all called him our pops,†Culliver said. “We all called him Dad because that’s what he was to us. He took me to my first NFL game, he put me through my first NFL camp when I was in high school playing football. Anything we needed, if we were going through something and our parents couldn’t help us or we couldn’t get something, he was there for us to help us out. So to a certain extent, we were all his sons.
“Pops is a really giving person,†Culliver said. “There were times in church where he’d give out cars to people who didn’t have a car, big Christmas events, feed the needy, give clothes to people who didn’t have clothes, whatever the case may be. His being a giving person is not really news to me because he’s helped a lot of people in the community and across the world.
“It’s God’s son, and you never know when God’s working through someone,†said Culliver. “So for everybody out there who’s saying ‘Bishop’s doing this, Bishop’s doing that and I know he was doing this’, you don’t know that. It’s an assumption. You don’t know that. So my advice for everybody out there is to pray for the church and pray for the prophets. Just pray for the whole church.â€
What do you think?
Bishop Long we love you hold yo head up
eddie know he did it
The father will deal with him so let God handle this but if it’s true that’s sickening and sad to do that to them if you going to be gay get someone your own age!!!
The truth is the light, Eddie you can run, fly & skip- but you can’t hide from GOD!
Marcus might be lying to protect Long. Just because he might not have touch him, doesn’t mean he didn’ t do it to others. Maybe Marcus wasn’t his type (even if he looks zesty). Long might like fresh meat.
hope and change
dkwts about this but whats in the dark always comes to the light
Bishop Long is a disgusting abomination B4 God and he will Rot and Burn in Hell for his actions. I don’t think he should step down from the church I think he should be thrown down. And all his followers that believe him I hope you follow him to the burning gates of hell cause ya STUPID
this is nothing but a hot mess
dis maybee dnt seem rte becausee he’s a bishop && what nt && dat is kinda nasTy bt it’s alot of homosexual people out theree && ipersonally feel lke if you qot anythnq neqativee ta say den dnt say nth at all….
I was a member of Long church 13yrs ago and my mother felt that God was not moving thru Long anymore. Girls got rapped in the bathroom and now Long is encouraging homosexuals. If ya live the life style of the world you will burn in hell with the world. Long just admit your wrong doings becuz the feds are goin to track ya paper trail!!!
Why the hell would I ever call another man dad or father…maybe because I have one and they dont. I dunno. All I know is if it quacks like a duck…
Is Marcus Culliver receivig financial support from Bishop Eddie Long? How did they find his a** all the way in Alabama for this local news story? That is, how did 11Alive come to know about his conncetion with Bishop Long? Blank stare.
Sidebar: Stay away from church positions as Armor Bearer, spiritual son, spiritual daughter and temple prostitute or whore.
Whatever, I don’t believe him at all, However i do believe he was paid to protect the wanna be pastor.
This story is just plain disturbing. I’m not judging the Bishop or his accusers but somebody is lying and God knows who!