Because Bennison is subpoenaing this writer, VirtueOnline intends to look more closely at what is going on in the litigation and report it to the whole church.

In that litigation, when Bennison was finally compelled to produce documents to Fr. Moyer's attorneys, he obtained a "Confidentiality Order" allowing him to keep secret most of the documents he produced. Bennison cited VirtueOnline as the primary object of the "Confidentiality" Order.

Now, Bennison seeks to involve this writer in this litigation and to harass VirtueOnline for daring to criticize him. There is no legitimate basis for the subpoena. Certainly, VirtueOnline can be of no help to Bennison in answering Father Moyer's Complaint about Bennison's frauds.

In the subpoenas Bennison seeks records from both VirtueOnline and the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh asking for "all memoranda, correspondence, articles, notes and/or documents that relate to Fr. Moyer, the Church of the Good Shepherd along with all bills and invoices, telephone conversations from David Virtue to Dr. David L. Moyer."

Bennison's subpoena of Bishop Duncan is a direct interference in the affairs and operation of the Diocese of Pittsburgh. He has, in effect, crossed diocesan lines without the consent of Bishop Duncan, acts which Bennison himself has previously condemned.

In the subpoenas Bennison does not recognize Fr. Moyer's orders, even though he is under the ecclesiastical authority of Archbishop Bernard Malango of Central Africa. Bennison refers to him simply as "Dr. Moyer" in the complaint.

Up to this point Bennison has sought to smother all dissent and by hampering VirtueOnline's investigation into the affairs of the diocese he has sought, among other things, to stifle both freedom of speech and freedom of the press, a clear violation of the First Amendment which explicitly guarantees such freedoms.

In filing these subpoenas Bennison has sought to involve this writer in the case thus undermining the basis of his previous Confidentiality Order, in which he has tried to keep his frauds secret. This act by Bennison is egregious and increasingly typical of revisionist bishops who hate orthodoxy, and will use almost any tactic they can to see that they are vilified, while their own heresies are brokered into the church and demand they be accepted.

At a diocesan clergy conference this week Bishop Bennison said that he wants both lawsuits by Fr. David Moyer's against him to go forward and he has petitioned the courts to go to trial as he wants all the subpoenaing to stop. He did not reveal that he himself had just served seven separate subpoenas.

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