Every word Gary uses must be carefully parsed in order to determine exactly what facts he is trying to conceal. In the paragraph above, Gary says I "presented" myself as a ghost writer/editor.

This gives the reader the impression that I sought Gary out for a job but had falsely represented myself as a ghost/writer editor. The facts are these: In early 1996, my wife and I went out to dinner with the Ezzos in Colorado Springs after they had presented a GFI seminar at a local church. When I told Gary about my background as an editor and ghost writer, he told me that he needed a ghost writer, and that I needed to come to work for him. In fact, he nearly hounded me all evening to come to work for him. I was not looking for a position with GFI. He offered me a job based upon my professional experience.

I have been a professional writer, working for a number of major ministries during the past 20 years. I have worked for CBN, writing materials for Pat Robertson. I was the staff writer for Tim and Beverly LaHaye in the mid-1980s. I worked for eight years as an editor/writer for Focus on the Family. These are not inconsequential ministries and my "skills" have always been adequate for the jobs I have had with these organizations.

Gary says it became obvious that I did not "possess the level of skills required to work for this ministry." This leaves the impression that I was incompetent in my work as an editor/writer. This is an untruth and every former GFI staffer knows it.

Gary is also misleading his readers by referring to GFI as a ministry. It is not a "ministry." It is a for-profit publishing firm that Gary operates for his own personal enrichment. He also runs a small, inconsequential nonprofit as a separate entity called Christian Family Heritage.

The next sentence in his commentary says that I went through "three different supervisors" while I was on staff. The implication here is that I was so inept and troublesome at my job that I had to be transferred from one manager to another, but finally had to be fired because no one could handle me. This is a deliberately misleading statement.

Here are the facts: When I came on staff, I was placed under the supervision of Robert Garcia (Gary's son-in-law who has now been shown to be an embezzler of GFI funds). When Tim Howard (Gary's brother-in-law) moved his family to California, he was to take over the graphics and editorial department. I was to be transferred under his leadership. Unfortunately, in an unethical bait-and-switch move, once Tim was in California, Robert and Gary changed jobs on him. He was placed over ministry outreach programs and Tom Buell was made head of graphics/editorial. I then worked for Tom until my firing in May, 1998.

Gary's statement that I "went through" three supervisors is a lie and totally misleading. I was never under Tim Howard because he was never permitted to take over the job he had been promised when he moved his family from New Hampshire. I had only two supervisors while at GFI. The transfer came in order to expand Tom Buell's responsibilities and free Garcia to do his other work.

Gary then says, "After a great deal of time, effort, and money, attempting to give Mr. York every chance to improve his skills, he was finally dismissed by the GFI administrative staff." This is a half truth, and it is misleading.

During my first year review, Robert Garcia told me that Gary had some vague dissatisfaction with my work. However, I was never told why he was dissatisfied. Nor did anyone on the staff tell me what "skills" I needed to improve. No staff member spent any time, effort, or money on me on skills improvement.

Another untruth that Gary told about my employment is that he nearly doubled my salary. The fact is that I received a 48% increase because of the inflated cost of living in California compared to Colorado. To say that he nearly doubled my salary is incorrect, and he should know better.

In an omission of fact, Gary fails to mention that a month after my firing, my wife and Anne Marie had breakfast together to discuss my firing. At the end of the conversation, Anne Marie asked Barbara if I would be willing to do freelance writing for them. My wife told her in no uncertain terms that I would never write another word for Gary. If my writing skills were so lacking for GFI's purposes, why would Anne Marie ask me to start writing again for them? Or, perhaps my "skills" were not really at issue in my firing, but something else.

Even though he was dismissed, GFI, in consideration of his age, gave him a very generous severance package including three months full salary. Although we attempted to treat his departure with dignity, Mr. York did not handle his dismissal very well, blaming GFI for his problems.