Are you seriously making fun of my comment? You think a bunch of moronic, untrained Elders profiling people at the behest of their religious leaders is not a human rights violation? Larger issues in the world don't mean this smaller issue should be ignored. Are smaller violations of human rights permissible? We can't point to an extreme example and use it to negate a less extreme example. That's intellectually dishonest.
I admit that they arent beheading people for being gay, but that's not the issue and this should not be downlplayed because it's less extreme. Ask yourself this, "What would the WTBTS do to these people if the law allowed them to act as they pleased?"
How many of us personally know someone who has committed suicide because of the harmful practices of the WTBTS? Can you really deny the cruelty of profiling ones who act too gay? It's deplorable behavior. Degrading someone until they kill themselves is sick. This has really happened and it's disgusting.
For the record, I'm not being repressed by this issue, but others will be. When these little, so called minor abuses take place, it simply lays the groundwork for future abuses. Do you think the WTBTS started out being this abusive? Do you think people in other countries just woke up one day and decided to cut people's heads off, or degrade women?
These things happen because we allow them to take place little by little. It's a simple issue. People are being profiled and made to feel like shit. The issue is not about whether or not any group can have dress code. I repeat, the issue is not about any group or organization/corporation have a dress code for their members. The issue is an organization's right to profile members based on their sexual orientation or because they have gay mannerisms, and then infringing on the religious rights of those "too gay" members. Do you disagree with that statement?
Hopefully Elders will largely ignore this idiotic decree from HQ. Anyone profiled by the WTBTS should sue for the violation of their religious rights. The WTBTS cannot forbid anyone from religious services in any way, especially when they allow pedophiles to preach from door to door. Is it really that difficult to understand?
Again, for the record, these issues need to be brought to light. It's not okay for any organization to do this. It does violate a person's rights, and I challenge anyone to prove the opposite. I'm quite frankly shocked that this thread is so controversial. It seems pretty cut and dried to me.
The WTBTS will be practicing religious discrimination and discrimination based on sexual orientation if they actually follow through on this ridiculous behavior. How is that not a violation of human right on some level?
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