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The Dallas Morning News

By Robert Wilonsky
rwilonsky@dallasnews.com

Until February, Tyrone Gordon was the respected senior pastor at St. Luke Community United Methodist Church — a former executive board member at Southern Methodist University’s Perkins School of Theology and the successor to Zan Holmes, among the city’s best known clerics. But that all changed earlier this year when two former St. Luke members — who were also employees — sued Gordon, claiming he made unwanted sexual advances toward them, sometimes in his office between services. One alleged that the pastor masturbated in front of him while watching porn during an out-of-town church trip. Gordon, who voluntarily left the church in February to start his own congregation, has denied all the allegations.

But this week two more men filed similar lawsuits against Gordon, St. Luke and the North Texas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. Both suits…