From same article....
“The decision to hire Williams was sharply criticized at the time by several members of the congregation, and he was removed Thursday following a vote by church officials.”
They were wrong to hire him, but it was not done with unanimous consent.
Fortunately, he was removed although how he got in in the first place is a mystery.
Accountability is good, thus the Presbyterian form of church government (which became the pattern for our representative form of civil government) with its built-in checks and balances where pastors are accountable to the congregation and the congregations are accountable to the Presbytery.
Baptists have too little accountability, but that is nothing compared to Rome with it's corrupt, authoritarian form of government where church polity is decided by a bunch of old men in dresses headed up by a false bishop of Rome who try to convince the congregations of their "infallibility."
You can fool some of the people some of the time...
Tragically, when Roman Catholics are fooled, their children often pay the price.