He’s been in the ministry for 40 years. He can cite verses that would justify his actions.
So I am calling it as I see it.
Oh he can, please feel free to repeat them for rebuke of usage out of context.
And I am calling the bible as I know its Author to mean.
By the way I knew a couple who was in the ministry for longer than that... and they were fomenting a kind of hazing in a ministry they ran.
I became angry, prayed about it.
Never asked for the specific outcome, though... which was both died within a year.