Interestingly, there is actually truth in all of those "apostate" accusations. Of course the wording is interesting. They all from a JW perspective are defensible.
For example:
In other countries apostate used the media to accuse Jehovah’s witnesses of refusing to give medical treatment to their children.
A JW would respond indignantly, "That's not true. We accept all medical treatments except blood transfusions. The media always twists things to make us look bad!"
However, that same JW woud fail to recognize that the statement does NOT say witnesses refuse ALL medical treatment, just that they refuse "medical treatment." Guess what? Blood transfusions are a "medical treatment."
Most media/news reports I've seen concerning this issue are very specific to mention the JW practice of refusing blood transfusions and blood products as the particular forms of medical treatment refused.
In this quote from the DC Speaker (yes, I listened to the recorded talk on the referenced thread) HE WAS THE ONE THAT TWISTED THE STATEMENT to make it appear that the media was falsely portraying news reports about JW practices.
A simillar analysis could be made about the "condoning of serious sins" remark. First, since the comment doesn't specifically mention a particular "serious sin" it's likely that the average JW would interpret the comment generally to include any and all serious sins and respond with a pre-programmed, WT sponsered, "That's not true! Why our elders DF'd ol' Brother Slurredspeech for overdrinking just last month, and six months ago Sister Flirty Pioneer was publicly reproved for fornication!" [You don't really think there is such a thing as "confidentiality" in the congregations, do you?]
Secondly, since the average R&F JW doesn't have a clue about the pervasiveness of the pedophile problem among JWs it's unlikely they would even think of that as one of the serious sins. The WT always says the most common cause of DF'ings is for fornication and/or unspecified "sexual sins." Finally, the comment misdescribes the actual problem by falsely saying "apostates" claim JWs are "condoning serious sins committed by fellow believers" when in fact the real accusation is that the WT leadership is guilty of covering up a serious and widespread pedophile problem among its membership!
See how differently this reads when you deconstruct the WT spin-doctors take on "apostate" claims and re-word them to reflect the truth accurately describing reality.
All that being said, I will say this: I was a bit surprised anything even approaching specific accusations were even alluded to, albeit in a very slanted way. Generally speaking, the WT practice is to not even mention the claims, disagreements or accusations of "apostates."
No I know why. When they do it's not hard to see the disingenuine nature of their lame "defense."
