***The result would be that individual cannot be disfellowshiped since that person was underage and above all, never even signed a document. Is this applicable in the US at least?***
Just like the extreme fundamentalist LDS sects, JWs can fly under the radar with this. The extreme FLDS leaders "marry" multiple wives, but the marriages are not legally registered with the state. I think the FLDS calls them "spiritual marriages." The sect views the marriages as valid contracts, but outside the group, there's nothing on paper that can come back to bite them on the behind. JWs work the system the same way by creating their own rules and punishments for breaking those rules.
Baptisms (WT legal contract) null and void
by Sacchiel 15 Replies latest jw friends
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parakeet
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Gordy
At a recent Circuit Assembly here
They had 12 baptised.
The oldest was 16 , the average age was 14.
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blondie
It's a good thing that JWs keep having children in spite of "being so close to the time of the end" or they would be no baptisms. They would die out like the Shakers.
Blondie
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VM44
Do the elders send to Bethel a list of who was baptized? --VM44
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MidwichCuckoo
How can a child be actively shunned? Surely this would amount to child abuse - and possibly have a long-term effect on him/her?
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mkr32208
It's a good thing that JWs keep having children in spite of "being so close to the time of the end" or they would be no baptisms. They would die out like the Shakers.
Don't worry they are going to anyway...