Dear Tribunal Members and other Readers –
This is an open letter about the diocesan abuse of boundaries. Not boundaries of touch, but the boundaries that honest, just and fair process requires and which those who were responsible for the drafting and administration of the Discipline Ordinance 2006 Sydney Diocese (and its predecessor the Church Discipline Ordinance 2002) have ignored, whether by design or otherwise it is hard to say.
This Open Letter presupposes that all those who are responsible for the administration of these diocesan processes are people who claim with humility that they serve a righteous and just God. Therefore it presupposes that they will be appalled to find their good names and reputations, on earth and elsewhere sullied by failure to recognise and root out the unrighteous and the unjust in these processes and their administration.
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Open Letter to the members of the Disciplinary Tribunal