It's likely you've already read this report "Michael Gaydosh Removed from Position as Senior Pastor of Grace Reformed Baptist Church of Merrick, NY"
found here:
http://rotolo-media.blogspot.com/2009/01/michael-gaydosh-removed-from-position.html
but if you haven't, you should,-- it will bring you up to speed on some history you'll need to know to understand the rest of this post in context.
I must admit I'm actually surprised by this, but it appears by the amount of unique visitors that I'm getting here that literally thousands of people have taken at least a passing interest in this story...so, here is the latest I have to report--
If you've read this post:
http://rotolo-media.blogspot.com/2015/01/update-michael-gaydosh-makes-first.html
then you're aware that Michael Gaydosh contacted me a year ago for the first time in almost sixteen years after victimizing me. His contact was not to extend an olive branch or to demonstrate any remorse, let alone real repentance; but instead to register his objection to my use of the word "pedophile" to describe the inappropriate relationship he had with a child on his daughter's high-school basketball team.
I was informed about that same time, by Pastor Jensen who contacted me on Gaydosh's behalf, that it was technically incorrect to use that term to describe his sin because the child he victimized was not a prepubescent child (as the term pedophile technically refers) but she had passed puberty, (if only by a couple of years).
In acknowledgment of his objection, I complied and immediately removed the term in any context using it to describe him. I acknowledged my error in using the term in the vernacular sense. Although I had done so with no intention to deceive people into thinking his victim was a prepubescent child, I could see the point that it did not accurately describe his victim who was in reality a few years beyond puberty and so I immediately removed the term in any context in my reporting that would or could be misconstrued as accusing Michael Gaydosh of being a pedophile. I have profusely explained this in various postings and while it is arguably accurate to have simply revised the occurrences of the word "pedophile" wherever they appeared to the term "sexual predator", I refrained from doing so. As some have asked-- whether or not he is a registered sex-offender I cannot comment on. What the laws were at the time of his offense, what they are in Alabama, and what the deal he struck with the child's parents was, I also cannot comment on. How he escaped prosecution I cannot comment on.
What I do stand firm in declaring is that Michael Gaydosh is a victimizer. A man that has used various positions of authority he's had abusively, whether as the pastor of a church, or as the coach of an all-girl high school basketball team. I personally was manipulated by the same kind of grooming tactics that at first are employed to flatter and cajole a person into being compliant to the manipulator's desires and then are used to maintain the status quo and to manipulate the person into remaining silent about the manipulation even as they find it more and more difficult to not reveal it to others or to reveal disturbing facts they become privy to with respect to the one in authority over them.
These tactics go hand-in-hand with the authoritarian personality. These types cannot merely persuade or suggest in an healthy, winsome manner but because they are seeking to accomplish something not particularly reasonable (with or through the instrumentality of the person they are manipulating), they must bring to bear whatever advantage their authority (real or perceived) can gain them. When met with any resistance that threatens their agenda, they must ratchet it up and employ more heavy-handed methods of persuasion, from guilt to threats. I was subject to all the above at the hands of Michael Gaydosh.
Now in response to the email I just received from Michael Gaydosh in which he is still accusing me of slander because the word "pedophile" is appearing embedded in the url of my posting I can only report that I have contacted google for help on this multiple times, as I promised I would, but they haven't responded.
What I have done, in addition to taking out any accusation of pedophilia of Michael Gaydosh within the text of my report, in order to do my utmost to address Gaydosh's complaint, is to make that page quickly (within mere seconds) redirect to a duplicate page in which the url has no mention of the word pedophile. It is very unlikely that those landing on the original page will notice its url before the redirect occurs. This is the best I can do at this point until Google works with me to alter the original url. I've now done whatever I can, even getting creative with the redirect, to honor Gaydosh's request-- so now what Mike? Can reconciliation begin? What will your first act of rapprochement and restitution be?
So this is the email I received from Mike Gaydosh on, Feb. 1st, 2016:
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Michael,
It has been over a year since our last email. You urged me to go to your Pastor. I did on more than one occasion and he simply said that he is not your pastor and has no authority over you because you are not a member of his church. I believe he has spoken with you about the matter but that is all I know.
You promised you would work to remove the words in the url that are not accurate and they still remain a year later. Knowing your abilities on the computer it is very difficult for me to believe you have really made the effort to do so.
Please remove them.
Thank you.
Mike
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(Previous to that I attended an EFCA church for almost 15 years faithfully until they called a non-Reformed pastor to replace the pastor before him.)
We are not officially members of the OPC church where I now attend, so while I doubt that my pastor literally said the words: "I am not Michael's pastor", he most likely communicated to Michael Gaydosh that he has no official authority over me to request that I do or don't act in some manner prescribed by him. The subtleties of this truth may escape the authoritarian mindset of one such as Gaydosh who holds to a very different understanding of what a pastor's authority should be so I can understand how he may have interpreted a conversation with my pastor and how he may have been disappointed by the fact that my pastor's position was such that some top-down appeal to "authority" could not and would not be brought to bear upon the situation.
No doubt Michael Gaydosh was frustrated by his unfulfilled desire to have me made to act in compliance to his request by the means of bringing my pastor into the equation and having him act by proxy as an arm-twister on behalf of Gaydosh.
This was exactly the mindset of Gaydosh during the eight-month long independent arbitration that was conducted by a third-party impartial pastor, that neither one of us had any appreciable acquaintance with, to arbitrate the dispute I had with Gaydosh and my charges of having been wrongfully terminated from my position as Executive Director of Calvary Press without due process and without cause.
He thought that Lawrence Carrino would find in favor of him and the elders at Grace Reformed Baptist Church of Merrick in the matter of my termination but instead Carrino, after an eight month-long process of deposing both sides, found that Michael Gaydosh and his elder board consisting of John Herringer and Scott Syracuse had in fact terminated my employment wrongfully (the legal description) but more importantly-- sinfully.
The established fact of which Michael Gaydosh has never repented of. Neither was I given the generous financial restitution as prescribed appropriate as remediation by the Findings of Arbitration published by Carrino and as part of his prescription for reconciliation.
The truth is, after Carrino published his independent Findings of Arbitration, Gaydosh began a concerted effort to discredit him by slandering him far and wide to anyone that would listen. Stooping so low as to grasp at such straws as citing the fact that at Grace Gospel Church of Patchogue the worship music was about 50% contemporary music and not mostly hymns--- as if THAT was evidence of so corrupt a mind that Carrino's judgment in regard to the arbitration could be ignored!
If this stuff wasn't true then I should win a Hugo for Best Fantasy story of the year.
And, that's why this appeal of his to have me labor to remedy his reputation is laughable considering slander is Gaydosh's preferred modus operandi.
If this stuff wasn't true then I should win a Hugo for Best Fantasy story of the year.
And, that's why this appeal of his to have me labor to remedy his reputation is laughable considering slander is Gaydosh's preferred modus operandi.
Gaydosh has never been interested in reconciliation and has never expressed an iota of remorse, regret, or biblical repentance. That is why this matter stands to this day. His contacting me is clearly only a pretense to reconciliation but he is only seeking his own interest in having me remove the language I used which labeled him a pedophile. Note the following statement from the email of January 2015: "The main burden of this initial contact is the removal of the statement about my being exposed as a pedophile. Until that is removed we cannot begin."
"Until that is removed we cannot begin" he wrote, well I removed the accusation that he's a pedophile, so why no "beginning" to a process of reconciliation? Well, now the excuse is that the url still retains the word pedophile. What this man apparently does not know, despite his much learning, is that when true reconciliation is sought, one does not begin by making demands as a prerequisite.
His complaint at this point in time against me is that the url of a blog post still has the word pedophile in it while totally ignoring his damages to me by having:
1.) defrauded me of my livelihood by a wrongful termination, 2.) slandering me so that it was impossible to become gainfully employed in the Christian publishing community, 3.) leaving me in such debt that I nearly lost my home, and only kept it by an expensive refinancing that cost me all the equity I had in my home, 4.) defrauded me of a six-figure financial restitution due me for the wrongful termination, 5.) never having properly paid me, salary-wise, as promised, during my years of service at Calvary Press, among other things.
Amazing the size of the log in the eye's of the self-righteous.
So, the very public manner in which Gaydosh offended me, slandered me, defrauded me, all in retaliation for what we would today call my "whistle-blowing" efforts to expose his sinfulness in ministry warrants that this matter remain public. (And bear in mind that not even half the story of Gaydosh's malfeasance in ministry has been told.) For those that disagree with my choice to keep this matter in the public eye-- I would simply respectfully say read another blog.
You must understand, rather than taking my case to the gentiles by suing the corporation of Grace Reformed Baptist Church of Merrick for wrongful termination, which by consultations I had exploring that possibility would likely have yielded me a win and award of some $500,000, in 1999 dollars, had I taken them to court; instead I sought an ecclesiastical venue.
"Until that is removed we cannot begin" he wrote, well I removed the accusation that he's a pedophile, so why no "beginning" to a process of reconciliation? Well, now the excuse is that the url still retains the word pedophile. What this man apparently does not know, despite his much learning, is that when true reconciliation is sought, one does not begin by making demands as a prerequisite.
His complaint at this point in time against me is that the url of a blog post still has the word pedophile in it while totally ignoring his damages to me by having:
1.) defrauded me of my livelihood by a wrongful termination, 2.) slandering me so that it was impossible to become gainfully employed in the Christian publishing community, 3.) leaving me in such debt that I nearly lost my home, and only kept it by an expensive refinancing that cost me all the equity I had in my home, 4.) defrauded me of a six-figure financial restitution due me for the wrongful termination, 5.) never having properly paid me, salary-wise, as promised, during my years of service at Calvary Press, among other things.
Amazing the size of the log in the eye's of the self-righteous.
So, the very public manner in which Gaydosh offended me, slandered me, defrauded me, all in retaliation for what we would today call my "whistle-blowing" efforts to expose his sinfulness in ministry warrants that this matter remain public. (And bear in mind that not even half the story of Gaydosh's malfeasance in ministry has been told.) For those that disagree with my choice to keep this matter in the public eye-- I would simply respectfully say read another blog.
You must understand, rather than taking my case to the gentiles by suing the corporation of Grace Reformed Baptist Church of Merrick for wrongful termination, which by consultations I had exploring that possibility would likely have yielded me a win and award of some $500,000, in 1999 dollars, had I taken them to court; instead I sought an ecclesiastical venue.
First within my own church, an effort quickly derailed and thwarted by the sinful machinations of Gaydosh (mentioned in my response email below) wherein he railroaded me out of the church by a kangaroo-court trial and "excommunication" proceeding, along with my wife and entire family, my brother and his wife included, and mother and father, all of us members-in-good-standing and not under any church discipline and in fact my father was a deacon in the church. But this was his tactic to silence us. The Sunday after the so-called excommunication, when I showed up for the worship service I was told that I was to leave the premises immediately or he would have the police called to escort me off the "private-property" of the church building and grounds.
This is the kind of Gestapo tactics that characterize Michael Gaydosh.
This is the kind of Gestapo tactics that characterize Michael Gaydosh.
When that door was apparently shut by Gaydosh then I sought the intervention of a like-minded Gospel church, and that is when Lawrence Carrino was introduced to me through the instrumentality of Chris Arnzen who knew him and spoke extremely highly of him. I am forever thankful to Pastor Carrino for making such a selfless effort to put in hundreds of hours to deliberate the dispute between me and Gaydosh (GRBC). It is rare to find a man that so seeks the broader peace between brethren that he would willingly accept so demanding a role of being a Solomon in so thorny a circumstance.
Ministers I've met before and since have simply taken the stance that "I have no dog in the fight" -- "so why should I get involved?" An attitude I personally find reprehensible, and unjustifiable when people come passionately appealing for help. So thank you Larry Carrino, for your impartial examination of Gaydosh et al, and myself, and your published conclusion that I did nothing to warrant my termination and that Gaydosh had acted in sinful neglect of pastoral duties and obligations to his congregants, (me and my family), in addition to being civilly liable for his financial damages to me. Thank you for your hard work in seeking the truth, the truth that vindicated me. That vindicated all the slander that Gaydosh had made to discredit me as a person of veracity and as a man of faith, and for the vindication that came to the charges I had made against Gaydosh for all the sin he had committed in dealing with me, and other sins he had committed that I was privy to but were not aimed directly at me.
So, since Michael Gaydosh ignored every prescription for reconciliation and restitution described by Larry Carrino in his Findings of Arbitration and continued to publicly slander me and then Carrino himself for finding against Gaydosh,-- I have little recourse but to keep this matter alive in the public eye and to continue to warn people of the person that Michael Gaydosh is-- a victimizer at heart, a bully that never grew up in that regard, and a poser in the ministry that is at heart not a peace-maker but a brawler. He will always choose his arm-of-the-flesh rather than the righteous prescription of God for bringing a peaceful resolution of this matter of so great an offense he caused almost 20 years ago to me and my extended family of five other people innocent of the particulars of my wrongful termination but guilty in his eyes of standing in solidarity with me in seeking firstly that proper charges of pastoral malfeasance be brought to the hearing of the congregation after Gaydosh was personally confronted and ignored us, and then after he was confronted in the presence of his elder board which also ignored the charges and rubber-stamped every poor decision Gaydosh made to squelch us. Secondly, they were falsely "excommunicated" and run out of the church to silence them for no other reason than that they stood with me to seek an ecclesiastical venue in which to adjudicate my complaint of wrongful termination.
Other entire families (unrelated to the Rotolo's) that inquired in any manner that made Gaydosh et al uncomfortable or suggested any degree of accountability for myriad sinful decisions he had made that led up to my termination of employment and/or those decisions to silence us and ignore our charges after my termination were so alienated that they just left the church.
In fact I've had several men approach me, years after my termination, and after they gained clarity by getting out from under the authority of Gaydosh and into a ministry in which real grace was taught and lived by its ministers, that they were approaching me in order to seek my forgiveness. One felt that as a deacon at the time of my termination that he was in some way responsible for at least rubber-stamping some of Gaydosh's sinful decision-making as it directly respected me and the way I was treated; and for not speaking up and opposing Gaydosh. He confessed that it was cowardly on his part. Another sought forgiveness for turning a blind-eye to all the upset that characterized the church at that time, seeking his own peace-of-mind rather than asking hard questions of Gaydosh and holding him accountable. Another saw in hindsight that the nature of the charges we were seeking to bring against Gaydosh which were at that time so difficult for him to believe, were in fact then, at the time he was approaching me, not only believable but likely in his mind given the fact that Gaydosh had now been exposed as being unfaithful to his wife and that with a minor! What they all had in common was an acknowledgment that Gaydosh used his self-appropriated "authority" as pastor to manipulate, control, even bully people into complying with him or taking the route of least resistance of ignoring it.
Ministers I've met before and since have simply taken the stance that "I have no dog in the fight" -- "so why should I get involved?" An attitude I personally find reprehensible, and unjustifiable when people come passionately appealing for help. So thank you Larry Carrino, for your impartial examination of Gaydosh et al, and myself, and your published conclusion that I did nothing to warrant my termination and that Gaydosh had acted in sinful neglect of pastoral duties and obligations to his congregants, (me and my family), in addition to being civilly liable for his financial damages to me. Thank you for your hard work in seeking the truth, the truth that vindicated me. That vindicated all the slander that Gaydosh had made to discredit me as a person of veracity and as a man of faith, and for the vindication that came to the charges I had made against Gaydosh for all the sin he had committed in dealing with me, and other sins he had committed that I was privy to but were not aimed directly at me.
So, since Michael Gaydosh ignored every prescription for reconciliation and restitution described by Larry Carrino in his Findings of Arbitration and continued to publicly slander me and then Carrino himself for finding against Gaydosh,-- I have little recourse but to keep this matter alive in the public eye and to continue to warn people of the person that Michael Gaydosh is-- a victimizer at heart, a bully that never grew up in that regard, and a poser in the ministry that is at heart not a peace-maker but a brawler. He will always choose his arm-of-the-flesh rather than the righteous prescription of God for bringing a peaceful resolution of this matter of so great an offense he caused almost 20 years ago to me and my extended family of five other people innocent of the particulars of my wrongful termination but guilty in his eyes of standing in solidarity with me in seeking firstly that proper charges of pastoral malfeasance be brought to the hearing of the congregation after Gaydosh was personally confronted and ignored us, and then after he was confronted in the presence of his elder board which also ignored the charges and rubber-stamped every poor decision Gaydosh made to squelch us. Secondly, they were falsely "excommunicated" and run out of the church to silence them for no other reason than that they stood with me to seek an ecclesiastical venue in which to adjudicate my complaint of wrongful termination.
Other entire families (unrelated to the Rotolo's) that inquired in any manner that made Gaydosh et al uncomfortable or suggested any degree of accountability for myriad sinful decisions he had made that led up to my termination of employment and/or those decisions to silence us and ignore our charges after my termination were so alienated that they just left the church.
In fact I've had several men approach me, years after my termination, and after they gained clarity by getting out from under the authority of Gaydosh and into a ministry in which real grace was taught and lived by its ministers, that they were approaching me in order to seek my forgiveness. One felt that as a deacon at the time of my termination that he was in some way responsible for at least rubber-stamping some of Gaydosh's sinful decision-making as it directly respected me and the way I was treated; and for not speaking up and opposing Gaydosh. He confessed that it was cowardly on his part. Another sought forgiveness for turning a blind-eye to all the upset that characterized the church at that time, seeking his own peace-of-mind rather than asking hard questions of Gaydosh and holding him accountable. Another saw in hindsight that the nature of the charges we were seeking to bring against Gaydosh which were at that time so difficult for him to believe, were in fact then, at the time he was approaching me, not only believable but likely in his mind given the fact that Gaydosh had now been exposed as being unfaithful to his wife and that with a minor! What they all had in common was an acknowledgment that Gaydosh used his self-appropriated "authority" as pastor to manipulate, control, even bully people into complying with him or taking the route of least resistance of ignoring it.
Thankfully, with respect to Gaydosh's contacting of my pastor, my pastor saw his role differently, we spoke about the matter and I acted appropriately without any coercion required.
And so this is my reply to the email that Michael Gaydosh sent me, which I sent in response on the following day Feb. 2, 2016:_____________________________________
Mike,
I am pleased to receive your correspondence, and your reaching out to me. I take it as a providence of God demonstrating that He has not forgotten the unresolved matters that still exist between us.
As you must credit me, I made every effort in my power to quickly respond to and diligently honor your request to remove what you described as "slander" from my website. I also went beyond merely removing it but publicly admitted my error in using the word inaccurately (but with no intention to deceive), as it rightly describes a prepubescent child while the child you had an inappropriate relationship with was 16 or 17 years old.
While the word "pedophile" regrettably is still embedded in the url, it cannot be found in the body of any of my writings that currently exist online. Please understand that I have contacted google on several occasions to seek their assistance in changing the url-- it apparently is not high on their priority list.
But more importantly, what show of good-faith and what efforts have YOU made toward the reconciliation you stated you were desirous of, and how have you remediated the slander that you and Joe Bianci perpetrated against me after you fired me without proper due process or cause?
After the Findings of Arbitration were published and I was fully exonerated why did you not contact all those that you had slandered me to and set them straight?
After the Findings of Arbitration were published and I was fully exonerated why did you not contact all those that you had slandered me to and set them straight?
The independent-press Christian publishing community with which we had to do is/was small and it became abundantly evident to me when contacting those other ministries seeking employment after my wrongful termination from Calvary Press that you and Bianci had actively sought to destroy my reputation and succeeded in making me a pariah to any potential employer. To correct that would have been the righteous action commensurate with repentance from your sin-- to correct it as far and wide as the damage you had done. Do you remember your sermon on slander-- how it's like rupturing a feather-pillow and those feathers fly everywhere but you can never fully put them back in the pillow-case because no matter how hard you try-- some feathers will remain out there? Because, I remember and so does my family, we've lived it-- and you knew what you were doing when you did it. So what exactly have you done to remediate your slander against me and my family? Remind me.
Also, why did you choose to not honor your word to be bound by the Findings of Arbitration and ignore the generous financial restitution that was deemed appropriate due the damages you caused me? While Larry Carrino refrained from specifying an exact amount any solicitation of what he had in mind (as I did) would have revealed that he envisioned a six-figure settlement minimally. Any genuine effort on your part to honor your pledge to be bound by the arbitration would have necessitated your seeking Carrino's intention behind his prescription for restitution and you would have acted accordingly. I know the ministry had the funds to respond appropriately.
Also, why did you choose to not honor your word to be bound by the Findings of Arbitration and ignore the generous financial restitution that was deemed appropriate due the damages you caused me? While Larry Carrino refrained from specifying an exact amount any solicitation of what he had in mind (as I did) would have revealed that he envisioned a six-figure settlement minimally. Any genuine effort on your part to honor your pledge to be bound by the arbitration would have necessitated your seeking Carrino's intention behind his prescription for restitution and you would have acted accordingly. I know the ministry had the funds to respond appropriately.
Please do not add further insult to injury by suggesting that the check for some $7,000, (which had been cut before the arbitration process was even initiated as a paltry and sub-standard severance) was indeed a fulfillment of the prescription to restitute me financially as deemed necessary after the full extent of the injury was fully apprehended by the arbitration process,-- as you insulted me at the time.
Mike-- I call you once again to repent of the actions that you took against me that were all found to be sinful and devoid of any pastoral character as would have been expected of a minister of grace. You are now a man of some sixty-plus years, your life almost fully spent-- what have you learned of Christ for all those years? How to print heaps of Christian literature but to not heed the words within them? To continue ignoring the sins you committed against me?
Do you think you can really get away with pretending that eight months of examination by an impartial third-party Christian pastor through the arbitration process did not actually happen? That you were not found to have acted with hard-hearted disregard in numerous ways and by numerous actions purposed to cause me damage and hurt? That the elder board of Grace Gospel Church of Patchogue did not have to officially rebuke you and your elder board by letter and to disfellowship themselves from you and Grace Reformed Baptist Church in any Christian fellowship/association because of your lack of repentance for what you did towards me, your lack of honoring your pledge to be bound by the findings of the arbitrator and his prescriptions for reconciliation and then for your acts of slander to discredit Pastor Carrino after he found in favor of me and not you?
You know what you did to politick with the decision-makers of A.R.B.C.A. to persuade them to abruptly terminate, mid-process, their pledged and initiated investigation into my complaints and those of my extended family-- all members in good-standing and not under any discipline, my father a deacon at G.R.B.C. They are complicit, the likes of Earl Blackburn, and their guilt remains.
You know that you conducted a kangaroo-court of a so-called "excommunication" proceeding in which no due process, as usual, was afforded all those subject to it; namely myself and every member of my extended family. It was conducted with no opportunity for us to be examined before the congregation and without affording us, all church-members, the right to be present and to voice our side of the story. In fact all efforts at entreaty by our family prior to that evening through the deacon and/or elder board were ignored or rebuffed. No previous actions of discipline had been conducted prior to that night. It was not the regrettable consummation of some lengthy, prayerful and long-suffering process of escalating discipline. Furthermore, the grounds for this ostensible "excommunication" were without any biblical merit. It was a naked effort at the wholesale slander of an entire family; to marginalize and discredit six individuals in one fell-swoop; and to thereby negate our very real charges of malfeasance against you and any means to bring them within the church. Do you remember, Mike? Because we all do, like it was yesterday. Have you repented of what such an action caused our reputations? The slander upon our characters, the declaring us as unbelievers, each of us? You remember, but you remain unrepentant of your authoritarian abuse of power. Praise God that it was in fact only a power you thought you had, as the keys to the kingdom are only wielded by righteous men acting righteously.
You know what you did to politick with the decision-makers of A.R.B.C.A. to persuade them to abruptly terminate, mid-process, their pledged and initiated investigation into my complaints and those of my extended family-- all members in good-standing and not under any discipline, my father a deacon at G.R.B.C. They are complicit, the likes of Earl Blackburn, and their guilt remains.
You know that you conducted a kangaroo-court of a so-called "excommunication" proceeding in which no due process, as usual, was afforded all those subject to it; namely myself and every member of my extended family. It was conducted with no opportunity for us to be examined before the congregation and without affording us, all church-members, the right to be present and to voice our side of the story. In fact all efforts at entreaty by our family prior to that evening through the deacon and/or elder board were ignored or rebuffed. No previous actions of discipline had been conducted prior to that night. It was not the regrettable consummation of some lengthy, prayerful and long-suffering process of escalating discipline. Furthermore, the grounds for this ostensible "excommunication" were without any biblical merit. It was a naked effort at the wholesale slander of an entire family; to marginalize and discredit six individuals in one fell-swoop; and to thereby negate our very real charges of malfeasance against you and any means to bring them within the church. Do you remember, Mike? Because we all do, like it was yesterday. Have you repented of what such an action caused our reputations? The slander upon our characters, the declaring us as unbelievers, each of us? You remember, but you remain unrepentant of your authoritarian abuse of power. Praise God that it was in fact only a power you thought you had, as the keys to the kingdom are only wielded by righteous men acting righteously.
Have you repented of your greed for filthy lucre,-- evidenced by so many of your questionable actions and decisions at Calvary Press, was the basis for some of our charges against you, what was ultimately behind my wrongful termination, and what in hindsight was no doubt responsible for God's removing his hand of blessing upon that previously thriving ministry? I ask because only recently I've been apprised, some twenty years later, and without soliciting any interest in your business, by an honorable Christian Pastor in a position to know, that there are some serious, let's call them troubling-- "irregularities" with respect to financial management and the way you do business at Solid Ground Books. That's your reputation in the marketplace.
Will you continue to ignore all that?
Grace Reformed Baptist Church is a by-word in these parts thanks to you and I firmly believe the cloud of judgment that abides upon them, all their serious problems over the years and their evident lack of prospering in the work of gospel ministry is directly a result of your recalcitrance and failed leadership. You may have enjoyed the illusion of having "escaped" your various sins against all those you've victimized here on Long Island by high-tailing it to Alabama but you have in fact not escaped them.
I will always remain in a posture to hold you accountable for your sin against me and my family but I will also always remain open to any entreaty on your part that indicates remorse and repentance for what you have done. However, absent some significant effort on your part to remedy the damages against me both reputationally and financially and familially, all of which exist even to this present moment, I would ask that you refrain from requesting anything more of me personally. You have taken enough.
I leave you still to the righteous judgment of God. The consequences of your unrepented-of sins against me and my family will continue to follow you. Of that I am certain. God will not be mocked.
-Michael Rotolo
PS: Would you kindly provide me at this time the email address of your pastor. You considered that it was prudent to involve my pastor and I agreed. I believe it's equally important for accountability sake all-around that your pastor also be brought into the loop even at this late date.
Also, I am currently fielding calls from people asking me details regarding what I have reported online with respect to Calvary Press as apparently Joe Bianci is making efforts to sell it. Firstly, Calvary Press and whatever assets remain should rightly be transferred to me as part of the restitution still due me. Secondly, I am still curious how a 501C3 corporation was transferred out of 501C3 status and into the hands of private ownership as it was when it was acquired by Bianci. As far as I know that is not legal. Can you explain that to me or correct me if I'm mistaken? Thanks.
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As I've done previously, I want to keep all the correspondence public, that way it keeps us all honest.
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