Ive never been told by a JW that its wrong to marry someone from another religion.
If you are not a JW, then you have been misinformed. JW's consider it wrong to mary someone who is not of their religion - wrong enough that such a marriage can't generally be held in the Kingdom Hall and it will likely be hard to find a JW elder to perform it. If you are a JW and saying this, then you are being disingenuous, since you know better but are trying to color the issue to make the organization look less controlling than it is.
JW's will show you what the bible says on certain subjects and let you make up your own mind.
Not really. JW's will show you what the Watchtower says the Bible says. For example, there is no scriptural precedent for the policies that I mentioned in the above paragraph; they are simply "traditions of men" that the Watchtower Society has implemented in order to control its people. There is a text that speaks of "marrying only in the Lord," but the Watchtower misinterprets that text to mean, "marry only in our organization." Keep reading on this board and you'll see lots of other examples of the Watchtower imposing its own interpretations on the Scriptures. Additionally, this rule isn't relevant to the current discussion in any case, since the poster who started this thread is not a JW, but a "worldly" person asking for advice about a relationship with a JW. We are simply trying to warn him what he is in for - from personal experience, in most of our cases.
There are a lot of comments from people whom seem to be bitter, you dont want to be a bitter person because of what other people believe.
None of us wants to be a bitter person, but Jehovah's Witnesses tend to produce bitterness in people. You try not being a bit bitter after the Watchtower has destroyed your family, as has been the case with many here. We all know from personal experience what it is like having the Watchtower Society as the main authority in your marriage, with all its man-made rules and controlling policies. We know what a battle it will be for this young Catholic man - how the primary goal of all his wife's friends and relatives will be to convert him, and how unlikely the marriage is to succeed if he refuses to become a JW. We know the fight he will have over any children they might have, if he doesn't want them to be raised as JW's. However, we ALSO know that the JW lady he is interested in is breaking the rules herself by even dating a "worldly" man - hence the speculation that she may just be looking for a way out of the organization herself. That's why several have suggested that he have a serious talk with her to find out exactly what her intentions are. If such a talk is not possible, then it would sound like there is enough of a lack of communication to doom the relationship anyway.
The point is that many of us have been where he is now, and many of us have been a lot further down the same road. We are trying to help him avoid the same pain we have been through. Mindless followers of the Watchtower would probably call us "bitter" because of that, because they are incapable of admitting that their precious organization could possibly be the root of the problem. Keep reading this board, and you will find that the JW organization is quite capable of destroying lives in order to preserve its own image and assets. Hop on over to www.silentlambs.org and read there about how much the organization values its followers. Why should a young man who only wants a happy life and marriage have to accept that burden into his life - especially if he doesn't know up front what he is getting into? That is why we warn him.