What's going on here? Or more specifically, in France? JWs demonstrating and handing out leaflets of protest to the public (see the 1 Sept. 2001 WT)? I recall a similar instance here in NYC when the rank and file was called upon to march in protest against a decision of local government against a building expansion project in Brooklyn Heights? (a funny anecdote relating to that incient was attributed to then-mayor of NYC Ed Koch who peered down on the protesters and quipped ``look at them.... all that andf not a vote among them!'').
It sure seems that these ``rock solid'' tenets of True Faith become quite elastic when the Society's monetary interests are under assault. What's galling about this is one knows just how quickly one huge, nose-bloodening monetary judgement against them in a shunning case will suddenly cause the ``light'' to shine more brightly from above, leading flashes of insight and an immediate reversion to pre-1981 df policies, all draped in appropriately sanctimonius language, draped in scripure after scripture.
Yes friends, it's all about the money.
Anyway, my 2 cents for today.