Yup, this looks like the same dolt appearing here as "Alice". Make wild assertions about how wonderful the corrupt, stumbling organization is and simply ignore any contrary facts presented in posts.
And the same stunning lack of intelligence: as with the garbage above. Why would the organization cover up child molesters and not also cover up fornicators, to save their reputation? Easy!
You see, in common opinion in the world, "fornication" is no big deal. I know of college trained people who weren't certain what "fornication" even was. 'Living in sin' is no big deal. On the other hand, molesting chidren is dramatically viewed as evil, along with those who do such things. The ever deceptive Watchtower has every motivation to conceal molestation of children within the organization and has done so ( as with my family's victimization).
In some respects, the organization has become more deeply corrupt because in the past, they used to be more explicit and honest in decrying bad behavior within the organization, from the platform, especially at long assemblies.
This 'coverup' attitude is often manifest in the Awake magazine, which carefully discusses serious moral failings without identifying those involved as Jehovah's Witnesses. This is not surprizing as , some years ago, a member of the GB actually tried to stop printing of a magazine that admitted the problem of physical abuse of wives within the organization.
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All gross sins collectively fall under the same category as defined in the Bible.
What! Do you not know that unrighteous persons will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be misled. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men kept for unnatural purposes, nor men who lie with men, nor thieves, nor greedy persons, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit God’s kingdom. And yet that is what some of you were. But you have been washed clean, but you have been sanctified, but you have been declared righteous in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and with the spirit of our God. 1 Corinthians 6:9-11
There are sins of varying degrees of seriousness. What matters most is whether the sinner is repentant.
http://www.watchtower21.org/2010/09/sex-predators-and-social-reform.html
Can sex predators be reformed?
ATASCADERO – At a mental hospital on California's central coast, a team of doctors works to achieve what many people think is impossible: teaching violent sex offenders to curb their ugliest impulses.
The sex-offender treatment program at Atascadero State Hospital was created after the state Legislature enacted laws in 1996 to extend custody for the worst offenders.
Behind locked doors and razor-wire fences, the staff guides these men – classified as sexually violent predators – through an intensive treatment program designed to prevent them from committing new crimes once they are released.
But after 10 years in practice, the sex-offender treatment program at Atascadero State Hospital has few success stories. The odds that a participant will be judged suitable for release are greater than 100-to-1.
It's a fact that seems to surprise no one, especially vocal San Diegans who recently have opposed the release of two sexual predators from Atascadero. They believe no program can make a violent sex offender safe enough to live outside a locked facility.
Medical experts, though many stand behind the program, acknowledge that even with years of therapy these offenders never will be “cured” of their deviant urges.
“Sex offending is a very ingrained behavior,” said Dr. Gabrielle Paladino, a psychiatrist at Atascadero State Hospital. “There's a part of it that's very satisfying to the perpetrators, and it's darn difficult to erase.” Even the offenders have their reservations.
The overwhelming majority choose not to enter the program, which lasts from six to eight years and strips them of their privacy, even after they are released. Instead, they remain confined at the maximum-security hospital in this rural San Luis Obispo County community until their commitments end, or they convince a jury that they are safe enough for outpatient care.
The difficulty of deciding when and how to release a sexual predator is borne out by the program's track record.
When confronting this complex problem, above all, congregation elders are expected to obey the law.
Reform in the context of this subject is chosen by an abuser, not imposed. Repentance is the first step toward reform. The verb “repent” means “change one’s mind with regard to past (or intended) action, or conduct, on account of regret or dissatisfaction,” or “feel regret, contrition, or compunction, for what one has done or omitted to do.” The wrongness of the course or act must be recognized, and this requires an acknowledgment that God’s standards and will are righteous. Repentance marks a halt in the person’s wrong course, the rejection of that wrong way, and the determination to take a right course. If genuine, it will therefore be followed by “conversion.” (Acts 15:3)
The congregation elders nor the governing body has ever made an “executive decision” that stipulates that elders should initiate a practice to cover for pedophiles. There is no real evidence such as signed documents as with other organizations. There's simply apostate conjecture.
http://www.watchtower21.org/2010/09/answering-critics.html
Key differences in organizations accused of cover-ups in contrast with Jehovah's Witnesses:
- Signed documents by the administrative position that direct clergy or officials to dismiss the incident and that direct that no action is to be taken.
- These cases of sexual assault associated with “cover-ups” took place while the children were in the custody of the church or organization that should have been a safe-environment for children; not an isolated location outside an administrative overseer's supervision.
Telegraph.co.uk - Pope Benedict accused of delaying unfrocking of sex abuse priest
Pope Benedict XVI resisted pleas to unfrock an American priest with a record of sexually molesting children, arguing that the negative publicity would damage the church in a 1985 letter bearing his signature.
The 1985 letter typed in Latin and signed by the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger said any decision to remove Stephen Kiesle, a San Francisco priest, from the priesthood must take into account the “good of the universal church”.
The letter was among years of correspondence between the California diocese of Oakland and the Vatican over the Fr Kiesle’s future. Kiesle was sentenced in 1978 to three years’ probation after making a plea of no contest to charges of lewd conduct related to tying up and molesting two young boys in a San Francisco Bay area church rectory.
The Freethinker - US Boys Scouts and the LDS Church conspired to cover up child abuseUS Boys Scouts and the LDS Church conspired to cover up child abuse
A $1.4-million damages award this week to an Oregon man has severely dented the reputation of the Boy Scout movement in America, and the Church of Latter Day Saints.
A Portland jury awarded damages to Kerry Lewis, 38, after the court heard of the abuse he suffered at the hands of Timur Dykes, an assistant scout master, an authorized Mormon representative - and serial molester of young boys.
And, according to this report, there could be more financial damage to come, with jurors set to go back to court next week to decide whether the Scouts must pay up to $25 million in punitive damages.
The verdict delivered by the jury was based partly on the introduction as evidence of more than 1,000 so-called "perversion files" secretly kept by the Boy Scouts of America at the group's national headquarters from 1965 to mid-1984.
