MegaChurch Pastor's Academy Had 'Sex Self-Check Card'

Sept. 25, 2010 -- Megachurch bishop Eddie Long, the pastor accused of luring several boys into sexual relationships through his LongFellows Youth Academy, had them carry "sex self-check cards."

The cards listed the boys' vision of life, a favorite scripture and three activities they could be doing rather than having sex.

Long, an outspoken opponent of gay marriage, is being sued by two of the boys that attended the academy, and on Friday two more boys came forward with similar accusations, one of which filed a lawsuit on Friday.

The Associated Press reported that the latest lawsuit states Long coerced the accuser into a sexual relationship while the two were on a trip to Kenya, after the accuser had enrolled in Long's academy.

"It became a place where the bishop could learn the intimate details about these young men," said attorney B.J. Bernstein, who filed the civil lawsuits against Long.

Long, who reportedly told the young man who has filed suit "I will be your dad" on their Kenyan trip, has remained silent on the accusations. Tomorrow he will speak publicly to his congregation at church for the first time since the lawsuits were filed.

The LongFellows Youth Academy charges $500 per person for a rigorous four-month training session where Long demands the students run 2 miles in under 15 minutes and bench press their own weight. Meanwhile, they have to learn to calculate interest rates on investments and work at a job for at least three months.

"Our methodology here at LongFellows is to invade and bring about a culture with these young men that they start believing in a standard that they have something that they hold to, that they never give up or never give in, do the things that they are ordained to do," Long said in a promotional video found on the academy's website.