I think Rakovsky hits the right note in asking whether it is a general Orthodox concern, or an internal affair. Some things affect all of us; others do not. I think there IS a legitimate concern that Justin has, whether he expresses it well or not, and Fr Matt IS right to call for care in any public criticism.
I've got my own "-judice" against the GOA; whether it is "pred-" or "post-" (TM: I've got dibs on coining the word "postjudice"
). But when you are talking about a whole archdiocese, you have to consider the lay folk as well as the hierarchy. No picture is simple. I DON'T like BLM, for example - I can see equal and opposite dangers in both unconditional criticism and unconditional support of the police, and having been a victim of police abuse myself, I really sympathize with others who have suffered it, but BLM is decidedly racist, declaredly Marxist, and is part of the general move by the super-wealthy to divide the citizenry against itself. Not to argue that here, but to point out that we can all easily find things that we disagree with each other on.
So what IS of general concern? Well, I think (as a correctable opinion) that AFR is unduly influenced by financing from American Greek Orthodox sources, and this has led to its holding positions that have been held to be controversial among us, as I have seen both here in TAW and in what I have seen people express elsewhere. Is that directed by the GOA hierarchy? Honestly, I don't know, although insofar as the positions match what the Greek Church outside the US has been moving toward, together with the EP, it fits like a glove on one's hand. AFR reaches out to all of us. It is not a mere in-house organ. It has real influence in the general English-speaking Orthodox world.
These things are part of a larger picture, not unconnected to the split of the Church in the Ukraine, which is part of the general split between the Russian Church and the Greek Church.
And the one thing I would defend Justin on: failing or refusing to address these issues leaves at least some, if not many or most of us, wondering whether this really IS the Church of Christ. For me personally, grasping that many people in the Church do not accept the authority of Church Tradition to correct them has been a real shocker, which caused a major spiritual crisis in my own life. Do we accept the common authority of the consensus of the fathers, or are we just Protestants with better vestments? It certainly has tempted me to walk away, though there is nowhere to go.
I suppose these questions appear in every age, especially when hierarchs go wrong, as I believe HH the EP is now, and leading the Greek Church on a path of the modern world, rather than the eternal Church. But many Greek hierarchs and layfolk are dismayed by these things. It's not like they all agree with what's been happening. Similarly, the Russian Church has had its very real problems, and I described my own recent encounters with one of them (the resurgence of Stalinsim). So rather than some kind of condescending "They are bad, and we 'righteous' Christians are condemning them" (which is how a thread like this can really come across), we need a lot more compassion, and discernment, to see whether we SHOULD raise a particular issue or not, and to govern the spirit in which we raise it.