Bishop Eddie Long Settles Out Of Court

[Hoovie]

Originally Posted by Austin

Being in law enforcement I know one of the reasons which he considered. If he would had to fight this issue in the courts, then he would have went through numerous depositions outside of the court room. He could have went through as many as one or ten. In those private depositions the defense attorney can ask any questions he wants to ask. The defendant has to answer them he cannot use the fifth amendment as his escape.

If the defense attorney wanted to ask Eddie about his childhood, his teen years, his personal relationship with other women before he was married he would had to answer them. If he was asked about his personal life and physical habits no matter what they were he would had to answer them truthfully or he would had to lie about things.All of this would have come out in court to disprove his creditability then later the public would have has access to everything which he said during the depositions.
So I think if he were not guilty of this incident, then all the others things in his life, just like ours, would have been exposed.

Things which the Lord has forgiven him of would be food for the public gossip section of this world.The media would have pasted it all over TV world wide. And of course the devil would have had a field day until Eddie would never have ever gained the confidence of his congregation.

So there could be a lot of reasoning behind decision making when your in that position.
I guess we will never know and probably shouldn't know.
A verse in Romans says. When you see a brother sin which is not a sin unto death, then you which are spiritual restore such a one, considering yourself lest you also be tempted.

Are you saying, not only would these confessions be required at deposition, but they would summarily become public knowledge?