Kent's site has them up and so do the 'quotes' site...except for the 1998 which everyone leaves off for some reason. It's important becasue just yesterday someone referred to this doctrine the PAST TENSE...this policy is STILL IN EFFECT and now approaching it's 40th year at least.
LB...Your story reflects an attitude among Elders I've encountered...One told me, "I always judge women harsher than men. 'Cause women have more control of their sexual impulses. It's harder for a man..."
And I remember one teenage girl confiding in me after I had left the Witnesses (because I had went public with my abuse), that a young, engaged pioneer (who was also related to her) had been "touching me inappropriately for a couple of years". She finally went to the Elders and they made her feel guilty. At first they didn't believe her. Then, when the pioneer confessed, "Why did you wait so long to tell us? Why now? Brother _______is doing so well..." He was privately reproved only. I remember the fear in the girl's voice. "What should I do? They made me feel guilty."
