Hi BB,
I think it's a case of the higher authorities not wishing to interfere in relgious practices. I know you posted to my thread http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/136995/1.ashx regarding Christopher Hitchens's Book God is Not Great - the case against religion. Hitchens's book actually highlights just what religion can get away with - including killing babies!
If I said here what I think about religion now I'd be deleted! So many innocent, screwed up, emotionally blackmailed, fable-believing, dogma-inculcated people walking the planet and letting the likes of the GB get away with it because they believe God is directing them (actually, they're so brain-washed, as I once was, that the bottom line now, because of all the fear and dogma-inculcation, is that they are afraid of dying).
What we need are people in high places with guts to expose religion for what it is.
Long live Dawkins, Hitchens and Harris.
Ian