JW Response RIGHT BEFORE Dateline aired:

by stocwach 3 Replies latest watchtower child-abuse

  • stocwach
    stocwach

    Here is an email I got 5 minutes before Dateline was on:

    I can't tell you how many of these emails I got today from my witness
    friends.......I was also informed that a letter was read at the meetings this week from the society about the program and that we should watch it......Our cong didn't read it because we didn't get it in time.

    TUESDAY, MAY 28 - 10:00 PM ET

    Dateline NBC investigates allegations that Jehovah's Witness members
    have covered up cases of child molestation in the Church. Dateline
    Correspondent John Larson talked to former and current Jehovah's
    Witnesses who say that Church elders protected the alleged molesters
    and kept secrets that might have put children at risk.

    http://www.msnbc.com/onair/default.asp?program=Dateline%20NBC

    I've been suggesting that we follow the society's own lead in this
    matter. One of the videos on the society's web site addresses this issue by talking about our publications. A number of cover articles on the subject are shown.

    http://www.jw-media.org/releases/default.htm?content=/vnr/default.htm>;

    This is a time to dig out the BVs and make photocopies of some of the
    recent articles. Not printouts from the CD but photocopies, they carry
    more weight as history than a printout.

    They make it clear we have been addressing this issue for years.

    I have asked this person to explain the blatant hypocrisy of the Society in that they have had numerous articles over the last 29 years or so, yet have the audacity to post a video from a supposed expert on their website who claims society didn't consider pedophilia a crime, or know the emotional trauma that would result from not bringing it in the open.

    Can anyone validate the statement that the Society sent a letter to the congregations urging rank and file to watch Dateline?

  • MacHislopp
    MacHislopp

    Hello Stocwach,

    thanks for these interestings information.

    I congratulate you for the way you put the question:

    "...to explain the blatant hypocrisy of the Society in that they have had numerous articles over the last 29 years or so, yet have the audacity to post a video from a supposed expert on their website who claims society didn't consider pedophilia a crime, or know the emotional trauma that would result from not bringing it in the open."

    I've heard that in Europe, ...all are eagerly waiting
    for the news and the..outcome from the Dateline show.
    Looks like another " avalange" on the run...
    and a big one too!

    Please keep everyone informed with the latest. Thanks again,

    greetings, J.C.MacHislopp

  • mpatrick
    mpatrick
    Not printouts from the CD but photocopies, they carry more weight as history than a printout.

    Do they really expect that to work? It sure doesn't work when we try to point out past doctrinal flip-flops and false prophesies.

    How about some "NEW LIGHT" on the subject!

  • Lionel_P_Hartley
    Lionel_P_Hartley

    The CD also makes it abundantly clear that Gail Bethra-Jackson's comments in the WT video, if interpreted in the way they are intended, are totally wrong.

    LPH

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