"Protest Found to Be Without Merit..."

So says our Metropolitan in his letter ratifying the recent elections of our community. Without the courtesy of notifying those who filed the protest, he announces his unilateral decision in one of his all too familiar "Beloved in the Lord" letters.

If he truly believed we were "Beloved in the Lord", he might have had the decency to contact either Mr. Gus Colessides or Mr. Jim Sifantonakis and inquired why they filed their protest. As we have seen with other, especially recent, "Beloved in the Lord" letters though, treating human beings from his flock with decency and respect escapes his thinking. Instead, his two assigned proistamenoi lackeys provide all the information necessary and the people be damned.

When will we finally come to the realization that "pray, pay and obey" must stop? We must always continue to pray. We can only offer to pay when our clergy leaders treat us with appropriate respect, and until that time, the payments ought to stop. Finally, how can we obey when those leading us do so only with their own best interest in mind?