HYPOCRITES!!!  Nothing surprizes me anymore!

Your absolutely right Bluesapphire.  They are up to their neck involved in the very things they condemn.  What hypocites is right!---Thank you Bluesapphire.---Voyager

It seems that if someone wants to donate to a specific agency listed(the WTS), they just need to fill in their code and the proceeds will be distributed from the United Way to the WTS.  So, here we have a true charity organization funneling donations to a for-profit not-for-profit corporate publishing empire.  You would think it should be the other way around.

Why in the world would the United Way do this? I am very confused.

According to the Watchtower index of 1930-1985 under the title "UNITED WAY", notice the very negative connotation associated with this organization------funds homosexual group g78 11-22-30......New York City's new policy regarding-----g82 4-8 31-------pact with Catholic Church g80-6-8 30......In addition to those comments, under "CHARITY" and the UNITED WAY, it also cites "lawsuits and accusations against" g78-6-8--30.....Now, why would the Watchtower Society want to have ANYTHING to do with the UNITED WAY that funds homosexual groups, has pacts with the Roman Catholic Church and is besmirched with lawsuits and accusations against it???.......Good One VOYAGER!!

Wonder how long it will be till they "disassociate" them selves from the United Way, now that their hypocricy has been revealed by the evil apostates!

Free

I could be wrong about this, but for some reason the following rationalization for this method of collecting donations could be any combination of the following: 1) "closed shop" unions that require everyone to join, or donate the dues to a non-profit via United Way (that is actually the ONLY allowed alternative donee in my employment contract). While joining the Labor Union is not WTBS prohibited per se, in some areas it is frowned upon. A JW might be similar frowned at for donating to UW, unless, of course, the money could be funnelled straight to WTBS, and 2) At my other job, there is quite a bit of pressure to "fill in those UW forms" with our deductions. To be allow R&F JWs to donate to their cult and still look magnanimous in the eyes of their colleagues directly benefits the coffers of WTBS. There was nothing in UW's statement of goals that would seem to preclude a JW from contibuting TO WBTS via UW in this way, since their cash can be designated. UW is, on one level, an organization to disperse donations to non-profits. If it were to exclude WBTS on grounds that it really does no "real" charitable work, it would run up against allegations of religious discrimination and the charge to eliminate support of Catholic Charities, or Jewish Community Resources, etc. The plus side is that if a person forgets to file her annual designation form, the donation is dispersed amongst ALL the charities, including those that help the "heathens." Shoshana

La Capra writes:

Of course, the "flip side" of that is that in the case of any Worldly Person? who does not designate their donation, the WTS will get a piece of the pie!

I wonder how the average United Way donor would feel about a portion of their donation going to an organization that sends paedophiles door-to-door and sues victims of child sexual abuse for legal costs?

Love, Scully

Thanks so much. I have to copy this one for my niece. I sent her copies of the info about the UN, and she showed it to my fanatical JW mom, who said I made it all up!!!!!

But, she's coming around.

This is too much.

April

La Capra, that makes sense. I was not aware that the United Way could, essentially, collect money for an agency that they did not and would not ordinarily fund. Scully's comment: "Of course, the "flip side" of that is that in the case of any Worldly Person? who does not designate their donation, the WTS will get a piece of the pie!" is what made me sit up and take notice. I'm pretty sure that, to be a United Way funded agency, you have to actually do something for people and not just the people who belong to your club. If the United Way is giving any portion of what they collect, other than what people give specifically to the Watchtower, I am both going to be really upset and have to re-think my pledge!