<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Nancy,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">I do know Paul because he was a regular in the Men's Group and hosted us several times, and I chatted with him often in coffee hour. But he moved to Oklahoma two years or so ago. I'm not in touch with him except for seeing an occasional post on Facebook. He was traumatized when his wife left him, but I hope he has recovered a bit in the years since then. I never heard him say anything about a problem with a woman in the Church. Any problems he did have must have been a couple of years in the past and I'm not sure that reliving them would be good for anybody.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">If I did contact him, I think he would want to know who complained about him and what they said he did.
"Sexual harassment" is a very general term, covering some behaviors that are quite serious and some that are less so. All I could tell him is I don't know who said what. If he asked where I heard it, I could only say it was from you. And you say that you are passing on secondhand allegations from a woman you don't identify.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">In your email you say that four women "came forward". But Beth Lapore says that no one directly involved has come forward to the Committee on Ministry, although Kat has reminded us that that is the appropriate place. This is from an email Beth sent to the Board:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="1">The Committee on ministry felt that our present guide lines are well spelled out. We agreed that we need to share these guidelines with the church so that everyone is aware of them. </font></span><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="1">The Committee thought there was very little we could do with these recent rumors since no one who was directly involved has come forward.</font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="1">We are willing to listen and help guide anyone who feels they have a concern</font>.</div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Since Kat and the Committee on Ministry are handling this, I don't think I should undercut them.</div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Ted</div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 3:22 PM nancy wolske <<a href="mailto:nwolske17@yahoo.com" target="_blank">nwolske17@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>
Ted - Since a member of the church sent an email to the entire female membership accusing him of sexual harassment, I think it’s a bit beyond the gossip stage. <div><br></div><div>I forwarded the email to you. Now your information won’t be secondhand, although her allegations certainly were. </div><div><br></div><div>If it were you, wouldn’t you appreciate being told what you’d been publicly accused of? Common decency is what I’d call it, especially from a church where he, too, is a member. </div><div><br></div><div>But it’s not my call, of course. And I’m sure I’ve spoken out too much already for some people’s liking. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div><br></div><div><br><div><br><blockquote><div id="gmail-m_4992634130681121508gmail-m_2888548047858063494gmail-m_619842403242868119yiv7930890852"><div><div><div id="gmail-m_4992634130681121508gmail-m_2888548047858063494gmail-m_619842403242868119yiv7930890852yqt92789"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br clear="none">
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