Also Desiree from Toledo was an eyewitness to most of the events of “my confession” regarding the 1990 break into James/Rebekah’s house. I spoke with her awhile ago and she is able and willing to testify about what happened. The event is real. Desiree shared many more details about this event on my priestylnation blog if anyone wants to read more.

I would add a #3 however. After #1 and #2, you do have a “grace period” which lasts from 6 to 12 months. During that time you have the opportunity to re-think your position, re-submit to your shepherd and become more “prayerful”. (which means “shut up”)

After that 1 year, you are then labelled as “R-Group”.

* As long as you are feel indebted to UBF/God and express primarily only good things that you received through/from UBF, you are welcomed, loved, embraced, coddled, touted as exemplary, etc.

* But the moment you raise any concerns, questions, or red flags whatsoever—controlling and manipulative practices past and present, which are abusive; critiquing and questioning UBF messages and practices; asking questions about UBF leaders and chapter directors; etc—that is virtually and practically the end of your “highly valued status” in UBF.

Is this fair to say? Or exaggerated?

My address: 412 Lehmer street
Covington, ky 41011

To realize I am a criminal who should have went to jail for 6+ months was sobering to say the least.

The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

Do you ubfers feel secure in your own home? Or do you have that nagging fear that your shepherd or chapter director could barge in any moment? I didn’t feel secure. I’m sure James and Rebekah didn’t feel secure either.

The Ohio Breaking and Entering law. “(A) No person by force, stealth, or deception, shall trespass in an unoccupied structure, with purpose to commit therein any theft offense, as defined in section 2913.01 of the Revised Code, or any felony. (B) No person shall trespass on the land or premises of another, with purpose to commit a felony. (C) Whoever violates this section is guilty of breaking and entering, a felony of the fifth degree.”

In 1990, the penalty was largely up to the judges:
“Today, Ohio’s felony sentencing laws are largely the result of
Senate Bill 2, which went into effect on July 1, 1996. Before this time, Ohio had an indeterminate sentencing scheme, giving judges discretion to select a minimum term from a range of punishments for each felony level.” (source)

The penalty for “breaking and entering” in Ohio starting in 1996 was a 5th degree felony (the lowest kind). So in 1990 judges would decide the penalty but likely would have been 6 months in jail.

(Ohio Revised Code, § 2929.14, 1996)

-Felony in the first degree – prison term is three to ten years in prison

-Felony in the second degree – prison term is two to eight years in prison

-Felony in the third degree – prison term is one to five years in prison

-Felony in the fourth degree – prison term is six to eighteen months in prison

-Felony in the fifth degree – prison term is six to twelve months in prison

And above all this, what about God’s Law? If love is the fulfillment of the Law, can I really claim that I was acting in love toward the Kim’s?

I am personally very very sorry for the “maddening silence” you have received. You (and others who have left UBF after decades) certainly deserve far far better than maddening silence! For what it’s worth, I personally do want to work to somehow address this very seriously and pray that God may have mercy on us and help us to rectify this in the coming months and years in order to promote healing and reconciliation.

Sadly, there are countless obvious (but totally unjustifiable, inexcusable and even “unbiblical”) reasons for the silence of some top UBF leaders which I will not go into, especially from your home chapter.