Bishop td jakes gay

The video has been viewed more than 1.7 million times on the platform.

The video also alleged that years ago Jakes slept with a former mentee, unidentified in the video, when he was a boy. Youngblood said Jakes called him the next morning and “told me he wanted me to be the only person he had a sexual relationship with when he came to town.”

The motion to dismiss Jakes’ suit included a sworn affidavit from Youngblood’s older brother, the Rev.

Richard Edwin Youngblood, who testified that he had heard Duane Youngblood describe the alleged misconduct by Jakes. The statements in these affidavits purport to describe situations where I harbored carnal desires for these men.

'For years, I have been counseled to ignore the constant stream of low-level smears against my reputation.

He is an advocate of sexual abstinence in his teachings, and in 2015 President Barack Obama praised him, telling Variety: 'What makes Bishop Jakes special is that no matter your station in life, he's there to speak with you, to pray with you, and to see you as an equal in the eyes of God.' 

Richard Youngblood's affidavit detailing his alleged experience in a hotel was filed to support his younger brother Duane's motion to strike the defamation complaint, with several other men also making sworn affidavits to support Duane's motion.

And I never groomed, sexually abused, sexually assaulted, and engaged in predatory conduct of a sexual nature towards Duane Youngblood.

After serving time in prison for sexual offense of a minor, Youngblood first came forward in October in podcast interviews with Larry Reid with claims Jakes assaulted him when he was 18 or 19 years old.

He pressed his body against mine and asked, ‘Youngblood, do you feel that?’” reads the statement, signed in December 2024. In Duane Youngblood’s filings, the younger Jakes was accused of sending the accuser a “message perceived as carrying a direct threat of harm.”