Earlier today, I traded emails with Matthew Youssef, the attorney representing Grace Episcopal Church in Alexandria. There’s an auto-correct issue in the second line, but the message is valid all the same, which is that Grace Episcopal’s problem is not primarily legal. It is reputational.

Any charge in which the rector commits perjury, lies in court, submits multiple false statements of law and fact, conceals evidence squarely within the ambit of discovery, subpoenas a dying woman in violation of state law, engages in inflammatory and inappropriate rhetoric and more, has issues on its hands that cannot be resolved in a court of law. And things are only exacerbated by the diocese’s approach that it will only get involved if Malm faces criminal charges.

Grace Episcopal Alexandria is dying, and rightly so.
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