Divisive/slander argument to keep people silent

has the slander/division argument been used to keep people who know things, (but love God and don’t want to hurt his church) quiet?

One of your questions on has a GCM church used the label of divisive to keep people from questioning or rasing concerns? Yes. Because of there quest for unity w/in small groups, church, movement, and the pressure that was put on me to not cause waves in that my questions were silenced for a time by being labeled divisive and not good for the benefit of the people I cared about. A fear of being shunned, etc. kept me from speaking out more for along time until my questions and pain could not be kept silent anymore, asked for a few more questions and quickly found the door shown to me by my leaders telling me how divisive my comments could be to their small group and to the church. After words I have been pressured not necissairly from leadership, but from my GCM friends not to dig anymore as they see what I am doing as only looking to create division. I know that as other people have spoken up on these issues, this divisive card has been pulled along with other viscious attacks on the character of those who are raising concerns as they leave GCM churches. I know that this is happening in effort to get them to cease to raise concerns.