Rap, here comes a bit of my incipient and acerbic Amishness: Uri may have been a smart man, but he was NOT a good Amishman.

If he was elected Bishop he already was a minister- a minister in the Amish faith is, ipso facto, a role model. Instead, he was a hypocrite.

In any Amish church he would have been given a chance to "repent", if he was unable to, he would have been excommunicated.