Monday, August 01, 2005

An apology

A few months ago, I posted about Yusuke and Tomo's wedding. The post included a paragraph about the minister who said the service. I was not impressed and suggested that he was a phony.

Here's an excerpt:

"Anyway it was a great wedding, the only downside was the "priest" pictured above, I know the guy from around town, and he is not a holy man."

The minister in question somehow stumbled across the post (which has now been deleted), and was offended (understandably). He emailed me to voice his concerns, and in reading his email, I believe him to be sincere. In re-reading the post, I feel that I was particularly unfair in characterizing him as "not a holy man". I really don't know him and have no grounds to have made the claim - there are a lot of unfair things I said in the paragraph, but calling him "not a holy man" sticks with me for some reason....I was way offside to say it, and I apologize.

Anyway, I have sent him a personal email to apologize, but figured I owe him an apology in this forum, because it is here where I typed the initial post.

I'm sorry.