:: If defamation arises from breaching medical confidentiality or congregational snoops, then those responsible for enacting the procedure of “disassociation” become legally liable for that defamation. If the legal argument of inevitability disappears then the playing field is leveled back to what it would be for disfellowshipping. Ah so. Elders, watch out. Another opportunity for you to be left slowly twisting in the wind. Based on the volume of my personal hotmail, I am aware there are many individuals in authority who observe these threads with intense interest. You who are taking a prayerful look at your relationship to God, his Word, and to the organization, I respectfully urge you to take the time to work through this very thoughtful and carefully reasoned post, and others like it. You have a choice.This is not an arcane subject like the Higher Powers adjustment that could be waited upon for decades. Or even the "adjustment" on alternative service in which lives were ruined but not lost. This policy is about life or death, today, for countless persons for whom "accepted fractions" and "alternatives" will just not medically work to save their life. And remember the innocent children, who have no voice at all--silent lambs whose lives may be in your hands. Speaking of PR, didn't I read somewhere that an official spokesman for the Society termed elders "untrained volunteers"?Earnestly,
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