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By Wil Gafney
The Feminist Wire<\/p>\n

I am writing this response to a YouTube video<\/a> circulating widely on the internet in in which Eddie Long, the troubled pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Atlanta, GA is apparently crowned king with the ritual use of a Jewish Torah scroll. (The reader may know him for the recent scandal in which he was accused by five young men of sexual misconduct. After initially denying the allegations, he went into settlement talks with them.) A number of specious claims are made during the ritual which I would like to refute.
Read the rest here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"