bruce-church (https://bruce-church.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "Suspending the Doctrinal Pussycat in WELS":
Seems to me the disciplinary procedure is too distributed. One would have to be a master politician to work that system and get results. Moreover, the synod is too small and interconnected to assume that all the people who had to concur to oust a DP would be impartial or recuse themselves for conflict of interest. Anyway, everyone knows that if a student makes some noise, he won't make it through seminary, and if some called worker makes some noise, he'll be out of a call, or never get another call, and his extended family may be out of favor for decades. So the whole system is corrupt and un-reformable (except by forces the synod doesn't control, such as the police). What usually happens is if someone can't keep his peace about some abuse, he'll write a letter and just drop out of the ministry or out of teaching, knowing that by trying to do or say anything, he forfeits his call, so he might try to go to another synod, or get another line of work. A case in point is Michael Schottey, who obviously knows the system, wrote a couple posts ago:
"I graduated from MLC but part of the reason I did not attend WLS was my inability to "stick my head in the sand."
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GJ - The net result of WELS corruption will be the wrong people graduating from The Sausage Factory - lazy, ignorant bullies who know how to milk the system, grab foundation money, copy and paste like their beloved mentors.
I know good pastors have graduated and will graduate from Mequon, but they are the exceptions, sorry to say.
