My brother will be getting one of those quite soon. He's getting ready to marry the "worldly" girl he's dated for 4 years. He's not been to any meetings in 4 years and has no plans on returning. My father has refused to meet her up to a week ago. Now that my brother plans on joining contract work oversees, he is going to marry her before he goes in mid-August. My father is laying it on thick, saying my brother has OBLIGATIONS to God, that he doesn't approve and that my brother should turn himself around. He told him that he's going to die in the Big A because of this girl.
My bro is pretty laid back and it takes a lot to get him pissed. He's seething now. He thought he was making headway with my father, actually having a meal with my bro's girlfriend and all of the rest of the normal family. But he just sank right back into his "If she's not a Witness, she should be nothing to you" way of thinking.
And what's most infuriating about all of this? My dad has openly admitted that if she were a JayDub, he would have no problem with her, that she is a great girl!
Idiot.
Oh, and one more thing, my bro is doing contract work with the military. My father told him that he needs to "write to Society" to ask how this would effect his neutrality. He's told all of us kids that we need to pressure my bro into doing this. I told him to screw off and leave it alone and it's none of the "Society's" business what my lil bro does for work. Why would it matter to nine old farts what a boy in South is doing for work? They don't know him and they don't give a crap.