Hi, SS. There is an article in the Tennessean newspaper about Kelsey and that would be a good place to start. Maybe Snoozy can post the link here for you.
I went through an intense month with Kelsey over the telephone when Jon got sick. No one could have been playing games about the things he was going through. We sometimes talked several times in one day. Not only did he have to come to grips with losing his only son, his ex-wife (who is a jw) and all the elders were treating him like shit and his mother was being evicted from a jw property, a property that had been promised to her until she died.
Picture this: you, an apostate, are in the hospital, surrounded by elders and your ex-wife and daughter. Your son is in a coma (with ugly blood marks all over his body and blackened arms, hands, feet and legs) and not expected to live. You show kindness to everyone, even bringing coffee to all of them. Your daughter is getting ready to leave the hospital and she goes around the room, hugging her mother and every one of the elders. She comes to you and shakes your hand. How do you feel?
Why would anyone make up a story like this? I heard the anger, dread and shaking in his voice, the disgust at the elders and his ex. It was not a joke. It was not a lie. I completely believe him, because I came to know him very well before, during and after these things were happening to him. What will it take, Jon's medical records? And, maybe the elders from Mr. Bowen's congregation will post here so everyone can believe that Kelsey doesn't know any of them.
Edited by - windchaser on 12 October 2002 15:27:20