I work for a church where my job is to make videos. One of the videos I have to make weekly are announcements about stuff going on in the church. A year &amp; a half ago I began making them funny, grabbing onto any gimmick that I thought was humorous &amp; it has been well received, even the ones that I thought were risky, i.e., cross-dressing, edgy (for a church) jokes, and innuendos. 

This past week I watched a GMM video where they have to make calls to various places while being "speech jammed." For those who don't know that's when you speak into a microphone and delay the audio back into your headphones slightly which causes an echo and makes speaking difficult, my speech slows down and I begin to stutter pretty badly, for instance. 

I thought it would be funny to do the weekly video this way, and for the most part, it was. At the start of the video, I explained what it was, &amp; told people the website where they could try it for themselves, then put the headphones on &amp; read my script poorly as intended. Before releasing the video the pastor of the church stopped by my office &amp; raised a concern about it possibly offending someone, he didn't want me not to make the video he just wanted me to make sure I explain what it was at the beginning and then gave me the go-ahead on it.

On Sunday we show the video, and it sounds like most people enjoy it &amp; are laughing. However, around 4 P.m. that day I receive this email, *"First off I know you meant no harm with the way you delivered the announcements today. Unfortunately, It was in poor taste for anyone that has a disability that prevents them from speaking fluidly. Anyone with a stroke, cerebral palsy, Parkinson’s, etc. I’m only trying to prevent hurt feelings in the future."* I forwarded this to my direct superior, and the pastor and the pastor responds to me, *"I was afraid this would happen, you shouldn't have done that."* I guess forgetting that he greenlit it 4 days prior. Now today he forwards me another email from an upset member, *"I don't mean to be a bother, but today in \_\_\_'s weekly update, \_\_\_ and I were both offended and disappointed.  As you well know \_\_\_ is Autistic with limited speech.  \_\_\_\_'s delivery on stuttering and speaking with a deficit was definitely shocking in the year 2019. I don't believe it was meant in a bad spirit,  but there are many families like ours, even in our church, who deal with the issue of a disability every day.  A little sensitivity goes a long way."*

The pastor then tells me I need to call these families and apologize for being insensitive &amp; "get ahead of this situation before he has to deal with it with the Administrative Board."

To me, these emails don't require an apology because they both acknowledge the video had no malice in it, it was more of "please don't do that again." Also, like H3H3 said, "Just because you were offended by a joke, doesn't mean that the joke was inherently offensive."

So AITA for not apologizing?