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| - CNN has said "Long frequently denounces homosexual behavior." Long has endorsed gay conversion therapy to recruit gays and lesbians for what he called "Sexual Reorientation" conferences and his church offers an ongoing "Out of the Wilderness" ministry to help convert homosexuals into heterosexuals (despite that it is impossible to convert your sexual orientation). In 2004, Long led a march with Bernice King to the grave of her father, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr The march was a protest against marriage equality and in support of a national constitutional amendment to ban gays from getting married. In 2006, Long's appearance at Atlanta's Interdenominational Theological Center's spring graduation stirred up controversy, and led to some students discussing a boycott. Long's invitation prompted Black liberation theologian James Cone—who was scheduled to receive an honorary degree—to boycott the ceremony. Thirty-three graduating seniors sent a letter to the seminary's president "questioning Long's theological and ethical integrity to be their commencement speaker." Many students did not agree with Long's beliefs that God can "deliver" homosexuals and his teachings on prosperity. A 2007 article in the Southern Poverty Law Center's magazine called him "one of the most virulently homophobic black leaders in the religiously based anti-gay movement."
- Eddie was a convicted arsonist who was chosen by Muirfield to be experimented on in 2006. They took him from his cell, and made it look like he had escaped. He was designed with pyrokinesis in order to help put out fires in oil rigs. He escaped, though, and used his abilities to bring down buildings using fire around New York. Eddie's patterns of setting fires are noticed by Gabriel Lowan, who goes to Vincent Keller to try and stop him. Vincent tries to stop Eddie using brute force, but Eddie sets him on fire and knocks him out. With the help of arson investigators, Vincent and Catherine Chandler find out that Eddie's targeting buildings owned by a major oil tycoon businessman. When they figure out his next target, arson investigator Aaron Keller, also Vincent's nephew, takes off on his own, wanting to kill Eddie for killing two firefighters. Aaron gets in the building and holds Eddie at gunpoint. Eddie, though, throws a flash grenade at Aaron, knocking him out. He's later confronted by Vincent again, but Vincent manages to subdue him this time, and get the upper hand. Before he can kill Eddie, though, Vincent hears Aaron's distress signal, and leaves behind Eddie to save Aaron. Eddie tries to escape, but is confronted by Catherine, who shoots and kills him. Afterwards, she & Gabe try to revive him using a defibrillator, hoping the effect will get rid of his beast DNA. The plan fails, and Eddie dies.
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