bruce-church (http://bruce-church.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "Back from the Dead, Carl Vehse Defends the Felonon...":
Carl Vehse uses some of the same thinking as Rev. Glende and St. Peters church does, in that whatever happens to the victim its his fault and he brought it on himself. Thus:
o They use the passive voice "he was disfellowshipped" rather than "we disfellowshipped Techlin."
o Walther didn't violate the confessional since there was no confessional. You see, it's only a confessional if Walther decides it's a confessional, not the person doing the confessing.
o There was no riot or robbery. That's all in Stephan's head. If there was a robbery, it was Stephan doing it. So it was entirely Stephan's idea to cross the river without his possessions. In the law however, it doesn't matter what Walther and the Perry Co residents intended. An assault occurs if the victim has some reasonable basis to feel threatened, and a robbery occurs if the victim has some reasonable basis to feel threatened into parting with his goods, which Stephan surely did.
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http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2011/06/back-from-dead-carl-vehse-defends.html
Only two people were kidnapped and not as the thread describes; there was no violating of the confessional, primarily because the pastor was not really a pastor; there was no riot; and any robbery was primarily done by Martin Stephan.
Pastor and church board disfellowship someone using passive voice:
http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2011/06/jon-techlin-wrote-on-light-from-light.html
