Bishop Eddie Long, one of several ministers targeted by a Senate investigation into possible financial wrongdoing, called the request for records unjust and intrusive.
In a brief address to his congregation at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia during a Sunday service, Long called the request by Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa)"intrusive," and "an attack on our religious freedom and privacy rights," during a brief address to the congregation during a morning service.
A guest minister was in the pulpit, so Long did not preach. Other than releasing a statement last week, saying he would cooperate with the request, Long had been quiet -- absent maintaining that the investigation is nothing more than a straight out attack. "[Grassley] wants to impose the will of government on our religious rights," he said.
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In a brief address to his congregation at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia during a Sunday service, Long called the request by Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa)"intrusive," and "an attack on our religious freedom and privacy rights," during a brief address to the congregation during a morning service.
A guest minister was in the pulpit, so Long did not preach. Other than releasing a statement last week, saying he would cooperate with the request, Long had been quiet -- absent maintaining that the investigation is nothing more than a straight out attack. "[Grassley] wants to impose the will of government on our religious rights," he said.
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