''I've Been Accused, I'm Under Attack''
6:00AM ET September 27th, 2010
Contributor : Hip Hop Blog Staff
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Eddie Long assured his congregation that he was going to fight the allegations brought against him by four young men he formerly mentored. The New Birth Missionary Baptist Church pastor.[video here]

"I am not the man that has been portrayed on television," he told his congregation on Sunday--addressing the allegations publicly for the first time.

"I've been accused, I'm under attack," he said from behind the pulpit at the New Birth Baptist Church in Atlanta. "I want you to know, as I said earlier, that I am not a perfect man. But this thing, I'm going to fight," he said. "I feel like David against Goliath, but I've got five rocks and I haven't thrown one yet."

"I want this to be dealt in the court of justice and not by public opinion," he said. "I will say that I am going to fight, fight very vigorously against these charges."