I just went to the funeral, not too long ago, of a man 89 years old, married for longer than I've been alive, he never got baptized nor did he ever study with JW's. He was a navy veteran who liked to talk of his war days, and he had quite a few stories to tell, and the knack to keep you on the verge of your seat listening to him.
His wife was a baptized 20 year old who married him when marrying an unbeliever wasn't such a sin by JW standards. She's now elderly, her elder son still lives at his parent's home with his wife because he's too busy to hold down a real job. So his wife reg pioneers and he only works part-time.
The father was one of the nicest most tolerant men I've ever met. He was for equal rights even in the 50's, giving african-americans good paying jobs in the factory where he rose up through the ladder to become a manager. When he had his funeral/memorial, (the talk given by a local elder who never even visited the guy's house), the crowd was standing room only and they were spilling over outside the KH.
To me this man represents the kind of non-believing, yet wonderful human being who stood for what he believed to be moral and good, and who devoted his life to provide for his family and help out those who needed help. I'm glad to have known him for the better part of three decades, and in that time not one JW, not one elder, pioneer or overseer I've ever met could half measure up to him.
Being appointed by the WT, being baptized to the devotion of the JW Organization's, means diddly squat. Anthony Morris the Turd would really have learned what a "real man" is from this un-believing mate!
