yes Lisa, it certainly is a set of "double standards!!!" I heard, don't know how true it is, that a LOT of the guys at Bethel are REALLY HEAVY DRINKERS because they can't do ANYTHING else........I guess since Rutherford was such a drinker, it'd be kind of hard to chastise the "brothers" for drinking.....and it's that "one scripture" logic again, my brother always says (a heavy drinker) that at ????scripture Jesus turned water into wine therefore blah, blah, and blah.......I will admit though that alot of JW's don't have liquor at their weddings, but my point is "if THEY want to they CAN) And as someone mentioned above, why don't they DF obese people? (no I am not picking on fat people, I'm picking on JW's lack of logic)....I mean they disfellowship ALL the TIME for smoking and when I mention this to my JW family, they're like "well it's because your body is a temple and smoking is disrespectful of your body. Now I agee that smoking sucks, I quit myself, but "shunning" someone because they smoked a cigarette!!! Is smoking and harming your OWN body somehow more disrespectful than MOLESTING a CHILD'S BODY? Isn't their body and mind also a temple?? Am I missing something? I also mentioned to my family that the Bible warns against gluttony, and I see ALOT of OBESE sisters....I don't mean they have chubby thighs, I mean they are fat to the point of it being a health concern....And don't give me that "thyroid problem" excuse, I'm talking about the refrigerator raiders!!!!!!They're like "well you have to have food, you don't have to have cigarettes." Excuse me, but an addiction is an addiction............
