Any JW knows that one of the very bad things that a christian must not do is accepting a blood transfusion. Respect for the sanctity of blood ranks highest, in JW theology, on the scale of Christian standards, along with not being a murderer, an adulterer, a robber, etc. In fact, it is THE identifying feature of JWs for the onlooker.
Under such conditions, anyone would expect unrepentant transgressors of God's command about blood to be unequivocally banished from the congregation as serious wrongdoers in order to keep the congregation undefiled. Instead, we find that the official stand of the WTS in this matter is that transgressors of this blood command are not disfellowshipped. The WTS holds that these people cut themselves off from the congregation on a voluntary basis expressing, in doing so, their will not to be JWs anymore. This attitude was evident when the WTS took steps in order to get JWs officially recognized as a religion in Bulgaria.
We find the same official stand with those who would join the army or would openly take side with a political party.
Interestingly, in these three instances, the WTS takes this stand in matters where it could be in deep trouble with authorities if it did acknowledge openly that it excommunicates people for such acts, since it perfectly knows that in many countries that would mean incurring prosecution and getting its own financial responsibility and its leaders' personal responsibility involved, on the ground of its exercising pressure on people's minds leading to putting lives at risk, rebellion to the army and to the government and unsocial behaviour.
In the face of the marked efforts that the WTS is developing in order to placate authorities, the honest JW feels this unthinkable question creep into his mind : is the faithful and discreet slave speaking double speech ?
Could have been titled : Who really is the harlot who commits fornication with the kings of this world ?