Wildflower Unitarian Universalist Church Of Austin Texas Web Site's Search Function And Rev. Eliza Galaher - What's The Connection?
It seems that in the wake of my blog post titled:
Rev. Eliza Galaher And Wildflower Unitarian Universalist Church Of Austin Texas Web Site's Search Function - What's The Connection?
That Wildflower Unitarian Universalist Church of Austin, Texas aka The Lone Star State, has updated it's web site in such a way that the sanitized "official history" of Wildflower Unitarian Universalist Church is now properly hosted on it, rather than elsewhere on the interwebs. . . and that *someone* working on behalf of WU*UC (Terry Matula perhaps?) has made the following text BOLD in order to emphasize it, where it had not previously been emphasized in BOLD.
In December 2012, the UUA notifies Rev. Rohde and the Wildflower Board that Rev. Eliza Galaher has resigned her status as a minister because of a UUA investigation of her for conduct unbecoming a minister. Galaher admits that she sexualized her relationship with a married member of Wildflower.
Rev. Eliza Galaher And Wildflower Unitarian Universalist Church Of Austin Texas Web Site's Search Function - What's The Connection?
That Wildflower Unitarian Universalist Church of Austin, Texas aka The Lone Star State, has updated it's web site in such a way that the sanitized "official history" of Wildflower Unitarian Universalist Church is now properly hosted on it, rather than elsewhere on the interwebs. . . and that *someone* working on behalf of WU*UC (Terry Matula perhaps?) has made the following text BOLD in order to emphasize it, where it had not previously been emphasized in BOLD.
In December 2012, the UUA notifies Rev. Rohde and the Wildflower Board that Rev. Eliza Galaher has resigned her status as a minister because of a UUA investigation of her for conduct unbecoming a minister. Galaher admits that she sexualized her relationship with a married member of Wildflower.
It seems however, that in their aka his*her haste to rectify the TOTAL absence of ANY information about Rev. Eliza C. Galaher and her clergy sexual misconduct which, at minimum. . . involved Rev. Eliza Galaher sexualizing her relationship with one single* married member of Wildflower U*U Church, the person(s) of inherent worth and dignity responsible for this editing aka CHANGE to WU*UC's official website inadvertently conFU*Used 2012 U*U history with*into 2011 U*U history.
I consider this very recent U*Updating of WU*UC's website to be a step in the right direction, which improves upon the disturbing step in the WRONG direction that WU*UC took not so long ago. . . which was to "take down" aka delete aka "memory hole" the quite extensive information about how Eliza Galaher's clergy sexual misconduct had impacted upon Wildflower Unitarian Universalist Church that had previously been available to the public on WU*UC's website. I will however be asking-advising WU*UC's leadership to reinstate ALL of the information that has been "memory holed", so that persons of inherent worth and dignity may practice U*Uism's 4th Principle by engaging in a free and responsible search for the Truth and meaning of not only Rev. Eliza Galaher's clergy sexual misconduct, but how it's aftermath was handled by the Board and congregation of WU*UC, the UUA, and "UU Safety Net" etc. In my view WU*UC took a quite progressive, and even quite courageous, step forward by making extensive information about how it had responded to complaints arising out of Rev. Eliza Galaher's clergy sexual misconduct available on its website, so I was quite disappointed, and even disillU*Usioned. . . to discover that that Unitarian Universalist history had been relegated to The U*U Movement's burgeoning U*U clergy misconduct "Memory Hole" not so long ago. . .
The WU*UC Board was supposed to hold a Board meeting on Wednesday May 10th, 2017, in which a decision was to be made about whether or not to report Rev. Eliza Galaher's clergy sexual misconduct to the Austin Police Department. I dare say that it seems rather "late in the game" for WU*UC leadership to be debating whether or not to report Rev. Galaher's sexual misconduct to what former UUA President Rev. Dr. John A. Buehrens likes to refer to as "the secular authorities". Surely such a decision should have been made back in the fall of 2012, or early 2013 at the very latest. No U*Us? No doubt a decision *was* made in to not report Rev. Galaher's sexual misconduct to the police in 2012, but some persons of inherent worth and dignity in positions of leadership at WU*UC are now having second thoughts about it, as they should in my opinion. . . I had been planning to make inquiries with the appropriate "secular authorities" myself, but I will wait and see what decision WU*UC leadership made, and try find out from them whether or not they reported Rev. Galaher's clergy sexual misconduct to the police, before communicating with the Austin Police Department, to say nothing of other "secular authorities" that may need to be involved such as the Texas Rangers, the FBI, and the Department of Homeland Security etc. etc.
Here's what the official history of Wildflower U*U Church looked like a week ago on May 5th, 2017, however this official church history page was not actually hosted on Wildflower U*U Church's official website. It was hosted on a totally separate website apparently belonging to Terry Matula that appears to have been taken down aka "memory holed" in the wake of my initial blog post about these Unitarian Universalist clergy abuse matters**:
I consider this very recent U*Updating of WU*UC's website to be a step in the right direction, which improves upon the disturbing step in the WRONG direction that WU*UC took not so long ago. . . which was to "take down" aka delete aka "memory hole" the quite extensive information about how Eliza Galaher's clergy sexual misconduct had impacted upon Wildflower Unitarian Universalist Church that had previously been available to the public on WU*UC's website. I will however be asking-advising WU*UC's leadership to reinstate ALL of the information that has been "memory holed", so that persons of inherent worth and dignity may practice U*Uism's 4th Principle by engaging in a free and responsible search for the Truth and meaning of not only Rev. Eliza Galaher's clergy sexual misconduct, but how it's aftermath was handled by the Board and congregation of WU*UC, the UUA, and "UU Safety Net" etc. In my view WU*UC took a quite progressive, and even quite courageous, step forward by making extensive information about how it had responded to complaints arising out of Rev. Eliza Galaher's clergy sexual misconduct available on its website, so I was quite disappointed, and even disillU*Usioned. . . to discover that that Unitarian Universalist history had been relegated to The U*U Movement's burgeoning U*U clergy misconduct "Memory Hole" not so long ago. . .
The WU*UC Board was supposed to hold a Board meeting on Wednesday May 10th, 2017, in which a decision was to be made about whether or not to report Rev. Eliza Galaher's clergy sexual misconduct to the Austin Police Department. I dare say that it seems rather "late in the game" for WU*UC leadership to be debating whether or not to report Rev. Galaher's sexual misconduct to what former UUA President Rev. Dr. John A. Buehrens likes to refer to as "the secular authorities". Surely such a decision should have been made back in the fall of 2012, or early 2013 at the very latest. No U*Us? No doubt a decision *was* made in to not report Rev. Galaher's sexual misconduct to the police in 2012, but some persons of inherent worth and dignity in positions of leadership at WU*UC are now having second thoughts about it, as they should in my opinion. . . I had been planning to make inquiries with the appropriate "secular authorities" myself, but I will wait and see what decision WU*UC leadership made, and try find out from them whether or not they reported Rev. Galaher's clergy sexual misconduct to the police, before communicating with the Austin Police Department, to say nothing of other "secular authorities" that may need to be involved such as the Texas Rangers, the FBI, and the Department of Homeland Security etc. etc.
Here's what the official history of Wildflower U*U Church looked like a week ago on May 5th, 2017, however this official church history page was not actually hosted on Wildflower U*U Church's official website. It was hosted on a totally separate website apparently belonging to Terry Matula that appears to have been taken down aka "memory holed" in the wake of my initial blog post about these Unitarian Universalist clergy abuse matters**:
Here's what the official history of Wildflower U*U Church looks like today, i.e. May 12th, 2017:
With some correction of the dating errors this web page will be a significant improvement over not having that or ANY other information about "retired" UUA minister Rev. Eliza Galaher available on WU*UC's official website at all, but there are still some serious questions regarding just how many persons of inherent worth and dignity Rev. Eliza Galaher had what former UUA President William Jefferson Clinton aka Bill Clinton calls "sexual relations" with. I for one am not convinced that it was just "one married member of Wildflower". I have reasonable grounds to believe that there may well have been at least one other victim-survivor of Rev. Eliza's sexual misconduct, and Yours Truly will be making inquiries about that possibility, if not probability. . . in a free and responsible search for Truth and meaning very soon.
That's all for now. . .
* It depends upon what the meaning of the word "single" is.
** It depends upon what the meaning of the word "matters" is.
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