rafters rang with enormous voice power. Nearly six years later, on June 4, 2006, after the present article was created, Dale took issue with part of this quotation in his Sunday morning sermon: "By the way, some of you have been reading wikipedia.com. I'm featured there. I'm so honored to be included there in what is sometimes little more than a scandalous website. But when you read there that I referred to Ray Gates as "Father Ray," I want you to know, with all due respect to everybody, it ain't so. It never happened. I will deny it until my tongue cleaves to the roof of my mouth and I can't get enough breath to say another word. It didn't happen. And it won't happen. He's not my father. I have a heavenly father who's in a class all by himself. I had an earthly father who in my opinion was in a class all by himself. But there's not a human being on planet Earth deserving of a religious title in that sense and Jesus said so in . "And back in 2000 when we were doing all of these things with the Jubilee 2000 Celebration and the time that I appeared there on their program, Ray Gates (who was the parish priest at that time at St. Leo's Church here in Murray) when he and I talked about that we agreed early on: I'm John and he's Ray. And I didn't mean to be disrespectful and he didn't either. When you call me by my first name I don't consider it disrespectful. Jesus said, 'Don't call any man on Earth father.'" In disputing the diocesan newsletter's characterisation of his remarks, Dale was pointing out one of the tenets of his faith, that the styling of priests and other high members of the church, as "Father," a common practice in the Catholic Church, is not accepted among the Churches of Christ. Within the Churches of Christ, only God is referred to as the "Holy Father," while ministers and elders are referred to as "brothers in Christ." The more specific scriptural basis commonly cited for this doctrine is . Criticism Immediately following the 2000 event, Dale was derided as a "liberal" and as doctrinally "impure" for his participation in the event by some vocal critics in the Church of Christ community. Criticism was not long in coming, largely from conservative