After I completed these steps, the committee would consider what was best going forward, landing on two possible disciplinary scenarios: (1) They could suspend me and begin a process of discipline and evaluation with the hope that at some point, I could be restored and reinstated as a pastor somewhere, albeit not at Coral Ridge, or (2) They could go the more expedient route and simply strip me of my pastoral credentials—“defrock” me, and I would no longer be a minister in the Presbyterian denomination in which I was ordained. The presbytery met and decided on the second option. In light of my
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