I remember this big family in my old hall that I grew up in the late 70s and there was a young brother that was very good looking and all the young sisters in the hall wanted to date him. I was about 13 or 14 at the time and did not know much about gays and lesbians but somehow I felt this young brother was gay. I just could not put my finger on it but just minded my own business. Years later his family had moved away to another hall and I did not see him anymore after that. About 10 years ago I met the best friend of this young brother's sister at my Job and after we talked for months we realized that we knew some of the same JW's. It was funny because I was DA'd and she was DF'd. So we became real good friends like brother and sister. One day she told me that she was going to a funeral for her best friends brother and I asked her what was his name and she said so and so Jones. I almost fell out of my chair because it was the brother that I used to go to the KH with in the late 70's. His family had moved to my coworkers KH and that is where this family still goes. My coworker left the JW's years ago but her best friend still talks to her. My coworker told my that so and so Jones was a homosexual and got married to "straighten" out himself but was secretly having gay affairs behind his wife's back. She had to be tested for the Aids virus but was "negative". I began to wonder just how many JW's have died of Aids from Homosexuality? The WT paints JW's as perfect little angels. And I believed that for many years until I woke up and left.
Do you know of any "baptized" JW's that died of Aids from Homosexuality?
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stillajwexelder
No but I know of a sister that died from AIDS caught from heterosexual activity
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blondie
One brother from homosexual activity
One brother from heterosexual activity
One sister from heterosexual activity
2 brothers and 1 sister from sharing needles
AIDS can be contracted the following ways:
Sexual intercourse with an infected person. (male/female, heterosexual/homosexual/bisexual) Anal intercourse with an infected person. Sharing needles and other paraphernalia for injecting drugs with an infected person (this includes using steroids and "skin popping" drugs). Infected blood or blood products given by blood transfusions or other medical treatments. (This is very rare in the U.S. and Canada as all blood is screened for the HIV infection.) Giving birth (if YOU are infected with HIV). About 1 in 4 HIV-positive mothers will infect their babies either during birth, while pregnant, (the virus crosses the placenta to the fetus), or by breast feeding.
People are HIV for many years before showing any symptoms so it is impossible to know how many JWs are HIV or even know they are.
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FairMind
I knew a brother that died from AIDS. When he died he was in good standing in the congregation which I assumes means that he wasn't practicing his sexual preferrence. My wife also knew a young brother who died from AIDS. She says this brother was well liked and her congregation was very upset at his death.I remember once during a WT study our CO's wife commenting that homosexual activity was simply another form of fornication, no more...no less.
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hamsterbait
There was a brother featured in the Asleep magazine, who got married on the advice of the society (I am sure he was the same one that wrote an article in the mid 70s, where he said the period living with his lover was the happiest in his life up to that time - the relationship ended when he guilted up and wanted his lover to turn JW)
ANYWAY - in the 80s mag he returned to the troof just days before Caposis sarcoma appeared. In characteristic WTS fashion, the argument against being true to yourself was that you would make your parents cry - as he had done when he told them who he was.
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booker-t
The story you told sounds like one I know--was the name really Jones?