[Received via email]

Dear [name]:
I am writing you in your capacity as president of the standing committee.  It is my request that you relay to the membership of that body that they consider, seriously, withholding consent to the consecration of the Rev. Thew Forrester as Bishop of Northern Michigan. While I believe the process of his election to have been flawed and reason enough to withhold consent, that is not the primary concern I have. The Rev. Mr. Forrester is a practicing Buddhist, “ordained” as it were, into their “lay order.” While eccentricity of this sort is to be expected amongst some of our clergy, a bishop is the defender of the Faith, and in the line of the Apostles. I believe the Rev. Forrester to have abandoned the Communion of this Church, and therefore unfit to be considered for the office of bishop.
In a separate email I will send a copy of our parish newsletter with more on this matter as its topic, Thank you for your consideration of this issue.

The Rev. Dr. Walter Van Zandt Windsor,
Rector,Trinity Episcopal Church, Pine Bluff, Arkansas