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Leaving quietly while in good standing and allowing the passage of time, forces them to act retroactively to bring hateful retribution upon someone who has only exercised a legal and humanitarian right.
Anthony Morris lied that JWs are free to leave.
He and his predecessors orchestrated the whole charade of reading names from platform as the sole que that incites others to discriminate for reasons unknown.
Disfellowshipping is ecclesiastic discipline for infractions of ecclesiastic law, it is mutually consentual, and certainly not necessarily just or reasonable (female genital mutilation, circumcision bronze age rituals) but still consentual - the parties agree to and participate in the stupidity.
Consciously leaving a religion is rarely a consentual act, but a private, individual decision often necessary for mental health reasons. This decision requires no ecclesiastic approval nor consent because your right to make this most private and individual choice is enshrined in most modern human rights charters.
It is the existance of these rights that have changed the face of modern social norms, color, creed, sexuality, origin, employment equity, housing etc have all been challenged and still being reformed to better human freedoms.
JW are most assuredly not free to leave their cult without WTs standard of hatred to burden their way to freedom.
I believe that challenges to this very specific issue - Freedom of Religion - shoved right in the faces of the local elders and extracting damages from the congregations surpluses normally sent off to New York will strike a nerve , while showing what hypocrites the localcongregations really are.
What are they going to do- ..fight against religious freedoms? ...demonstrate beyond a doubt that ostracism and shame are appropriate rewards for someone attempting to improve their own life and mental health? ...
This challenge afforded by this simple local approach can only leave a written legal record showing Anthony Morris III to be completely full of shit.
