About time there was some oversight to these groups! Their list of ministries under review isn’t large enough though. I would add Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network and Christian Coalition, Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority, Oral Robert’s ORU, and James Dobson’s Focus on the Family.

Regardless of what direction this investigation takes, I’m doubt anything will come of it. But I’m sure we’ll hear calls for respect of separation of church and state.

Questions surround TV preacher inquiry

Evangelist Benny Hinn, raises his hands in prayer

Among the many conservative Christians who feel misunderstood by the general public, the six televangelists under investigation by a Senate committee are an embarrassment.
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“We’re not representing any of the parties involved, but when I see a senator charging into organizations, wielding this kind of budget ax and laying bare religious figures and expenditures, huge constitutional questions are being raised,” said Gary McCaleb, senior counsel at the Alliance Defense Fund, a religious liberty legal group founded by James Dobson of Focus on the Family and other influential evangelicals.
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ll the ministries preach a form of Word of Faith theology, known as prosperity gospel, which effectively teaches that God wants believers to be rich. The ministries have said separately that they are committed to following the tax laws, but it is not known whether they will all comply with Grassley’s request by the deadline.
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But Grassley irked some religious leaders when he quipped about the lifestyles of the preachers under investigation, saying Jesus road into Jerusalem on a donkey, not a Rolls Royce.