Michael Schottey has left a new comment on your post "The Mouse That Squeaked":
Wow...
I believe you that all of those things are true. But why? What do any of those have to do with journalism? What purpose would it have served if they had all been "front page news" in FIC?
You know nothing of these men but their misdeeds. I praise God that some of them are back in Lutheran congregational life. Why would you not?
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GJ - At least Michael signs his name.
This is how the news works - When a man murders his wife, the story is put in the newspaper, on the radio, even on TV. The conservative Lutherans do not admit to anything. They cover up crimes because the felonies would hurt them politically.
When the police investigate a murder, the church officials have an obligation to assist in any way possible. Why do you think Tabor got away with it? People wrote letters to WELS to keep the synod from taking him on. There was nothing in his file when the police investigated.
What moved WELS to take on the notorious Tabor in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and form a new church around him? I know about Tabor from Roger Zehms, who was the circuit pastor taking Tabor in, Bischoff (in the LCR with Tabor), Jay Webber (who was at Scriptural, CG, where Tabor left) and a few other contacts.
Telling the truth keeps the innocent from suffering. Why did one or more pastors have to suffer from taking on the Tabor mission? WELS grabbed Tabor while he was fleeing the torches and pitchforks of the locals in Cape, first giving him a call, then moving him quickly to Milwaukee. When Tabor and his mistress killed Mrs. Tabor, WELS let him move from Milwaukee to Michigan. Three WELS congregations became associated with a murderer because Zehms and other WELS CG gurus knowingly sponsored Tabor. Zehms baptized a child who "was the spitting image of Tabor."
Telling the truth thwarts the guilty. The conservative Lutheran pastors know that the bigger their crime is, the more likely Holy Mother Synod will cover up for them. Even better, a system of mutual blackmailing keeps everything out of the public eye.
Not knowing one pastor was a known adulterer, I asked him, "Why does WELS elect such weak leaders?" He said, "No one wants the skeletons out of the closet."
Someone should do an audit and find out how many millions have been wasted on crackpot schemes like the Tabor WELS mission in Cape, the founding of Church and Change with WELS offering money, Crossroads in Detroit, Pilgrim (another Zehms pratfall) in Columbus, LPR (Zehms again), and many more.
The conservative synods work with ELCA and ape ELCA every chance they get. Then the conservatives denounce ELCA for being so liberal. ELCA may be the drag queen of the synods, but ELCA is honest about its doctrine and positions.
