Elder Miller initially stated, “The next appropriate step would have been to then contact the conference administration with your dispute…and request a meeting. If the decision then made would not have met your group’s approval it would then be referred to the Executive Committee.”(1) With each succeeding communication this stipulated process proliferated. In Elder Miller’s next letter he stated, “It will be necessary for you…to make contact with Jorge Ramirez and work with him and follow an agreed outlined process of Matt 18.”(2)
Having held the required meeting with Elder Ramirez, the requirement changed once again. “The next step in this process is for you to engage in a one on one dialogue with Alan DeSilva…But before you do this it is important that you and the group write a document outlining all the issues at hand so that this document can serve as the basis for this dialogue…the next step will be to hold a meeting (or meetings, as the Holy Spirit sees fit) with 2-3 individuals from each group…Finally, the last step in this process should nothing be resolved, then will be to bring the issues before the executive committee.”(3) At the meeting with three individuals from each side all parties agreed that the next meeting would be with the executive committee, yet the process was enlarged once again and we were required to attend yet another process meeting.(4)
L) Elders Miller and Ramirez wronged us by repeatedly adding steps to the process to make it more difficult to complete.
M) Elder Miller wronged us by dictating a process without any consideration for what we considered reasonable, in direct contradiction to the statement in his second letter that it would be an “agreed outlined process.”(5) Never did he give us an opportunity to agree or disagree; he simply demanded compliance.
(1) Letter to Elder B dated June 17, 2008
(2) Letter to Elder B dated July 14, 2008
(3) Letter to Brother G dated October 30, 2008
(4) Email to Brother G dated May 17, 2009
(5) Letter to Elder B dated July 14, 2008
Monday, March 1, 2010
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