Last year, homophobic Atlanta megachurch pastor Bishop Eddie Long told his bewildered flock at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church that he would fight allegations that he sexually took advantage of four teenage boys. The Bishop denied allegations, but his story looked fishy after photographs surfaced that looked very much like ones that could have been posted on Manhunt or Craigslist’s m4m personals. While the preacher’s muscles were quite impressive, his alleged hypocrisy was quite disturbing.

Today, Bishop Biceps went back on his word and elected not to fight the charges in court. Instead he reached a settlement and paid off the four young men who accused him of using his power to influence them into sexual relationships with him, according to CBS News affiliate WGCL. (Video Here)

“You can interpret that any way you want, but usually people do not settle cases unless there is some reason to do so,” said former DeKalb County Prosecutor J. Tom Morgan. “They had to reach a settlement if they did not want any statement by the Bishop on record….Nobody knows what the numbers are. I would be sure it’s in the millions.”

Not surprisingly, there are sheep in Long’s flock that are ignoring the obvious.

New Birth member Elder Dandridge said she’s glad the case is over. She said her pastor is innocent. “We’re very excited, very elated about what’s taken place. To God be the glory,” said Dandridge.

Yep, let’s just ignore the allegations and pretend the pictures of spandex and hot pants don’t exist.

Michael Glatze was a founder of a gay teenybopper magazine. Then, he seemed to have some sort of nervous breakdown and became an outspoken “ex-gay” activist.

During this phase, he wrote a couple of obnoxious and misleading articles for World Nut Daily. However, his time on the “ex-gay” circuit was short-lived.

On Nov. 20, 2009, Glatze sent out a bizarre E-mail saying that he would no longer be a spokesperson for the “ex-gay” industry. His demise as a mindless mouthpiece came after he wrote a racist rant against president Barack Obama on his rambling vanity blog.

“Have I mentioned lately how utterly *disgusting* Obama is? And, yes, it’ because he’ black. God, help us all,” wrote Glatze.

According to Glatze’s goodbye e-mail:

“After a lot of praying, I have decided I am NOT meant to be a spokesperson for the cause of healing from homosexuality….God has given me deliverance from the homosexual sin — but, He is not asking me to stand on a platform, as an activist, against my former lifestyle.”

Not surprisingly, the fickle and capricious Glatze is already back in action. He will appear on Porno Pete LaBarbera’s new radio show “The Americans for Truth Hour.” The gig is on a Chicago Christian radio station on Saturday evenings during the graveyard shift. I’m sure the ratings will be through the roof.

It seems from Glatze’s letter that God was very clear when he said: “He is not asking me to stand on a platform, as an activist, against my former lifestyle.”

Yet, here Glatze is – in less than six months – standing on the very platform God told him to avoid. A person who would openly defy God to appear on a hate group’s radio show in the dead of night (with an audience you can count on one hand) is the definition of a media whore. (no offense to sex workers)

Despite God’s admonition, Glatze still hasn’t changed. He is the same grandstanding hypocrite who is drawn to the spotlight like a mosquito in June.

Alabama Attorney General Troy King, a conservative Republican Christian who has called homosexuality the ‘downfall of society,’ has been caught with his pants down-literally-in a gay sex scandal. King was reportedly nabbed having sex with a male assistant by his wife, Paige King, in the couple’ own bed. It is amazing – the more one condemns homosexuality, the more likely one is to be gay. It is a telltale sign, like freedom rings.

Such tragic stories show why it is so important to come out of the closet. The alternative is living a life of pain and denial. On Monday, I head to North Carolina to speak out against the “ex-gay” Exodus International conference. Exodus says they have more than 700 people already signed up.

Most of these people will realize they are being duped and walk away. Others will suffer for few years before they realize they have wasted time and money. Then, there will be the ones who remain and decide to live like Troy King. When I think of the Exodus conference, I think of Troy Kings in training.

How does this help the family?

David Benkof (formerly Bianco) – the gay writer turned anti-gay religious extremist – is getting published in mainstream newspapers. It is not because of his weak, sophistic, inarticulate arguments. The reason he gets press is because of his bizarre – man-bites dog biography that positions him as a gay journalist who is against same-sex marriage.

The only problem is, Bianco is not a gay columnist. He was dumped from the Dallas Voice and Q-Notes the moment they found out that he was a double-talking fraud. Despite the end of his GLBT journalism career, he still has his fake credentials listed on his website, a testament to his low character.

Mr. Bianco, take down your fake resume and get published based on the merit of your work, not your phony biography. I predict that his journalism career will be over in a relatively short amount if time. Mr. Benkof lacks the ethical standards and morals to succeed in this business. He has already been accused on at least two occasions of misquoting people and twisting their words to fit his political agenda. People of this ilk often get weeded out and I doubt Bianco will be an exception.

Stephen Black, an Exodus spokesperson, compared “ex-gay” watchdog organizations to Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan. Black, the leader of First Stone Ministries, an Exodus affiliate in Oklahoma City, used his personal blog to opine that “gay activists, liberal blog bullies and the liberal anti-Christ media machine…and Darwinism,” were determined to make ex-gay ministries illegal.

Exodus International is becoming more desperate and shrill as they lose their war against homosexuality. We call on Exodus to take action against Black and apologize for the group’ outrageous slander against GLBT advocates. These paranoid, mean-spirited and unfounded attacks are unethical and undermine Exodus’ claim that they love homosexuals.

“There are actual GAY hate groups who wish to silence the voices of ex-gays,” wrote Black on his blog. “These groups are like the brazenly named “Ex-Gay Watch’ and their klan of bloggers who use hatefully sarcastic words in addressing ex-gays.”

Black went on to compare the work of ex-gay watchdog groups to Nazis and say — without evidence — that ex-gays were somehow being “stalked.” (Read More)