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MANY PBS STATIONS WON'T SHOW KNOCKING !

by DannyHaszard in

some pbs stations won't show knocking .

even though knocking is scheduled for a national pbs broadcast on may .

2007, as many as one-quarter of local pbs stations will not show .

DannyHaszard

GAY knocking Jehovah Witnesses producers

Gay Director Joel P. Engardio and his Gay partner

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MANY PBS STATIONS WON'T SHOW KNOCKING !

by DannyHaszard in

some pbs stations won't show knocking .

even though knocking is scheduled for a national pbs broadcast on may .

2007, as many as one-quarter of local pbs stations will not show .

KNOCKING Update

OSCAR-NOMINATED TERRENCE HOWARD TALKS ABOUT KNOCKING

Listen to Academy Award-nominated actor Terrence Howard talk about
KNOCKING
on the NPR (National Public Radio) show "Tell Me More." Terrence Howard
is
the host of the PBS series "Independent Lens" and he will introduce
KNOCKING
on TV. Few know that Terrence Howard was raised a Jehovah's Witness as
a
child. He will talk about that experience on the NPR radio show (he was
already told reporters he wants to return the religion of his
childhood) and
he will talk about his impressions of KNOCKING. Terrence Howard was
nominated for an Academy Award for his 2005 performance in " Hustle &
Flow ."
He also starred in the 2006 Best Picture "Crash." This year, he was the
lead
in the film "Pride." Previous films include "Mr. Holland's Opus" and
"Ray." Terrence Howard 's interview on the NPR show "Tell Me More" will be
broadcast
Tuesday May 22, the same day KNOCKING is shown on PBS.
Click here to learn more about the NPR radio show, and where to hear
Terrence Howard 's interview. You can also listen online:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=46

KNOCKING GETS PRESS AROUND THE COUNTRY

Here are links to recent press articles about KNOCKING:

Newsweek
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18754319/site/newsweek/

USA Today
http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2007/05/opening_the_doo.html

Houston Chronicle
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/religion/4817057.html

San Francisco Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/05/14/findrelig.DTL&hw=Jehovah&sn=001&sc= 1000

New Jersey Bergen Record
http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk3JmZnYmVsN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk3MTM1MDkz

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WT BLOOD GUILT EXPOSED TO THE WORLD

by DannyHaszard in

parents don't get a moral pass.

toronto star, canada - 3. even the discovery that their parents were devout jehovah's witnesses and is there any other kind of watchtower congregant?

raised only faint alarm ... rosie [email protected] the author.

DannyHaszard

http://www.dallasnews.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19815#19815 Danny started a thread at their Dallas morning news forum Join In A struggle of faith and blood
Dallas Morning News (subscription), TX - 12 minutes ago
But he too was in the Jehovah's Witnesses. Because blood is sacred in their faith, father and son would not agree to any transplant operation that involved ...
[email protected] reporter

A struggle of faith and blood

TV: Medical drama sheds light on Jehovah's Witnesses 12:00 AM CDT on Tuesday, May 22, 2007
By SAM HODGES / The Dallas Morning News
[email protected] In 2004, Seth Thomas was a suburban Dallas community college student with a passion for playing electric guitar. He also belonged to the Jehovah's Witnesses. And he had a life-threatening liver disease. Seth's father, Ralph Thomas, wanted to give him part of his liver. But he too was in the Jehovah's Witnesses. Because blood is sacred in their faith, father and son would not agree to any transplant operation that involved a transfusion. Their search for a hospital that would operate on their terms is a riveting part of the documentary Knocking, which airs at 11 tonight on KERA-TV (Channel 13), as part of the PBS series Independent Lens. Knocking, which won best documentary at the 2006 USA Film Festival, .

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WT BLOOD GUILT EXPOSED TO THE WORLD

by DannyHaszard in

parents don't get a moral pass.

toronto star, canada - 3. even the discovery that their parents were devout jehovah's witnesses and is there any other kind of watchtower congregant?

raised only faint alarm ... rosie [email protected] the author.

DannyHaszard

Bloodless medicine heeds Allegheny General patients' faith
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - 4 hours ago
But the cardiac surgeon refused to operate because Shearer, a Jehovah's Witness, wouldn't accept a blood transfusion. "It's one of God's commands that we ... TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Tuesday, May 22, 2007 Harland Shearer was dying. Seven years ago, the Westmoreland County man became weak and couldn't catch his breath. His wife, Vivian, drove him to a hospital in Greensburg, where they learned the artery supplying blood to his heart was blocked and he would need heart bypass surgery. But the cardiac surgeon refused to operate because Shearer, a Jehovah's Witness, wouldn't accept a blood transfusion. "It's one of God's commands that we abstain from (donors') blood," said Shearer, 72, of Slickville. "Your soul is your blood." Tonight at 10, PBS will air "Knocking," a one-hour documentary about Jehovah's Witnesses. Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh is promoting the documentary because it examines bloodless medicine, which the hospital practices through its Center for Bloodless Medicine -- the only such center in Western Pennsylvania. Shearer came to the North Side hospital in 2000 after his first cardiac surgeon refused to operate. Doctors at Allegheny General used techniques to minimize blood loss, and he was discharged five days later -- a standard hospital stay for such surgery. Four years ago, his wife had heart bypass surgery at Allegheny General. In 2005 she had a knee replaced, and last year she had elbow surgery. All were bloodless. Before their surgeries, Harland and Vivian Shearer, who have been married 45 years, signed forms saying they accepted responsibility for anything that might happen as a result of their refusal to accept blood -- including death. "If we happen to pass away, then we know Jehovah will resurrect us," said Vivian Shearer, 63. The attitude is controversial. Pennsylvania law allows doctors treating children of Jehovah's Witnesses to override their parents' beliefs and give a child a transfusion if medically necessary. Dr. Eric Kodish, a pediatric hematologist at Cleveland Clinic and chairman of the hospital's bioethics department, said if an informed patient refuses blood and the surgeon is comfortable with the decision, the hospital shouldn't have problems offering bloodless surgery. The issue is different when applied to children, he said. "It is ethically incumbent on pediatricians and pediatric surgeons to comply with the law and not assume that a 7-year-old or 5-year-old or 2-year-old is going to grow up to be a Jehovah's Witness -- they could decide to be a Buddhist or a Catholic or a Jew or nothing at all," he said. "To allow a child that could easily be saved with a blood transfusion to die because of the beliefs of their parents is problematic." Ken Mitchell, a Jehovah's Witness who lives in McKeesport, said most Witnesses understand the law. "We would just rather they go the full distance, the full range," said Mitchell. "In other words: exhaust every possibility. This is the spirituality of the child." Although Allegheny General has the region's only center dedicated to bloodless medicine, other hospitals will accommodate patients' requests to undergo surgery without blood transfusions. "Pittsburgh is way ahead of the curve," said Paul Jones, of Highland Park, chairman of the Hospital Liaison Committee of Pittsburgh, formed 20 years ago to help Jehovah's Witnesses find doctors to perform transfusion-free surgeries. "We've always been able to find cooperative doctors in Pittsburgh." The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is implementing a blood management program across its health system to minimize surgical blood loss and seeking accreditation in intraoperative blood salvage for its hospitals. UPMC St. Margaret is the only Western Pennsylvania hospital with such an accreditation. "My feeling is that bloodless surgery is good for everybody, regardless of whether or not they're a Jehovah's Witness," said Dr. Jonathan Waters, director of UPMC's perioperative blood management system and chief of anesthesia services at Magee-Womens Hospital. "Blood can be lifesaving -- there are a lot of adverse things that can happen without blood -- but if you don't need a transfusion, you're better off without it." A patient's immune system can weaken when he or she receives donated blood, because it goes into overdrive investigating the foreign blood, making it hard for that person to ward off infections, Waters said. There is a risk of contracting viruses and other diseases. Dr. Jan Seski, director of gynecologic oncology at Allegheny General, who helped start the hospital's bloodless medicine program in 1998, first encountered the need for transfusion-free surgery nearly 30 years ago, when removing a pelvic tumor from a 15-year-old Jehovah's Witness. "You need to understand the needs of Jehovah's Witnesses, understand their religious beliefs and the strength of their religious beliefs, and then approach the surgery as a challenge, not a complication," he said. "It is a challenge that can be overcome."

Transfusion-free surgery Surgeons build up a patient's blood levels and reduce the amount of blood lost, by: • Taking smaller samples of blood for laboratory tests before and after surgery • Giving patients drugs that boost red blood cell levels • Using hemodilution during surgery, a technique that uses a machine to dilute the patient's blood with water and minerals so that fewer red blood cells are lost during bleeding • Collecting, cleaning and returning blood lost during surgery to the patient, also known as intraoperative blood salvage, or cell-saving • Using a tourniquet to slow blood flow to the part of the body being operated on • Perfecting surgical techniques to reduce the amount of blood lost during surgery Source: Tribune-Review research

Allison M. Heinrichs can be reached at [email protected] or (412) 380-5607.

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MANY PBS STATIONS WON'T SHOW KNOCKING !

by DannyHaszard in

some pbs stations won't show knocking .

even though knocking is scheduled for a national pbs broadcast on may .

2007, as many as one-quarter of local pbs stations will not show .

DannyHaszard

KNOCKING update
*please forward to friends*

FEATURED IN NEWSWEEK

An article about KNOCKING has been published in the current issue of
Newsweek magazine on newsstands May 21.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18754319/site/newsweek/

FEATURED ON AIR AMERICA RADIO

Director Joel P. Engardio was interviewed on Air America radio,
nationally
broadcast Sunday May 20. You can listen to the podcast online.
http://www.airamerica.com/stateofbelief/

NATIONAL PBS BROADCAST TOMORROW: TUESDAY MAY 22

PBS is offering KNOCKING for national broadcast on the series
"Independent
Lens" Tuesday May 22 at 10pm. NOTE: Many local PBS stations are moving
KNOCKING to late at night, to a different date, or opting to not show
KNOCKING at all. You must contact your local PBS station to determine
the
air date/time in your area. You must also request a future broadcast of
KNOCKING at a more convenient time if your local station is showing it
at an
odd hour or passed on it this week (be sure to mention the series
"Independent Lens").
Check to see if your city is on the list:
http://www.knocking.org/PBS.html

FEATURED IN NEWSWEEK

An article about KNOCKING has been published in the current issue of
Newsweek magazine on newsstands May 21.

EXCERPT HERE:

Engardio declined to be baptized, he says, because he thought he could do more good in the world than out of it. He is also gay. His sexual orientation didn't lead him to abandon the church, but long term, "it wouldn't have been a good fit,"

WOW how many of us got that choice and then become a WTBS spokesperson for newsweek?

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a prostitute at 16 thanks to the WT

by mathilde in

jw
friends

yesterday i promised i would tell another ugly but true story about sexual abuse within the org,so here we go:.

my ex comes from a catholic family.his youngest sister and he became a jw at the same time ( like me they had an elder brother in the org.but not much contact with the jw) my sister in law had a large family -7 children.6 of them very pretty but also rather stupid but then came young p, a very gentle, handsome and intelligent boy.he really stood out.

he was brilliant at school and they wanted him to study- but his parents said no.somebody from school came over to talk with the parents-this man said it would be a terrible waste not to let such an intelligent young man study, but they were unshakable-it was almost paradise time and this boy would never use that education for anything- so why bother?

DannyHaszard

I have seen the Watchtower put lots of children (teens) on the street,by depriving them of the zeal for a good secular education and dfing them and breaking up their family ties and support.

I didn't just post this to get back at the WT,I have seen it over and over and sometimes gloated along with other JW's when we heard the 'rebellious' youth was on hard times.

Shame shame shame

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Sixteen Child Sex Abuse Lawsuits against Jehovahs Witnesses Are Settled

by Dogpatch in

press release 5/10/07.

http://www.freeminds.org/history/16lawsuits.htm.

sixteen child sex abuse lawsuits against jehovahs witnesses are settled.

DannyHaszard

The Roots of Pedophilia damn good read

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Is shunning scriptural? At all?

by Open mind in

it's obvious that the jw view of shunning goes way beyond anything called for in the bible.

1 cor 5:11-13 says,(nwt) "but now i am writing you to quit mixing in company with anyone called a brother that is a fornicator or a greedy person or an idolater or a reviler or a drunkard or an extortioner, not even eating with such a man.

for what do i have to do with judging those outside?

DannyHaszard

BeliefWatch: Witness
Newsweek - 12 minutes ago
What interests Engardio—who was raised as a Jehovah's Witness by his mother and has since left the church—is that despite their fierce separatism and ... [email protected] Email newsweek editors BeliefWatch: Witness By Lisa Miller Newsweek May 28, 2007 issue - With a presidential candidate, a recent television special and 13 million adherents worldwide, the Mormons have gotten an extra dose of media attention lately. But there's another indigenous American religion that is now making a bid for the spotlight. Formed in the 19th century, four decades after the Latter-day Saints, it, too, emphasizes a bizarre-seeming afterlife, attracts clean-cut and socially conservative adherents, encourages its members to evangelize and raises the ire of more-mainstream believers suspicious of its claims to Christianity. With "Knocking," a documentary airing this week on PBS, director Joel Engardio draws back the curtain on America's million Jehovah's Witnesses. People know of Witnesses, if they know of them at all, as the folks who refuse to say the Pledge of Allegiance. They also don't celebrate birthdays or Christmas, they don't vote, they don't fight in wars and they refuse to accept blood transfusions, even in life-threatening circumstances. They believe the end of the world is coming soon, and they bear witness to God by knocking on doors. What interests Engardio—who was raised as a Jehovah's Witness by his mother and has since left the church—is that despite their fierce separatism and fundamentalism, they use the courts to fight for their right to worship as they please and their legal battles, he argues, have made the world a better place for everyone else. In "Knocking," a young man who needs a liver transplant but refuses a transfusion is admitted to one of a growing number of hospitals that are experimenting with bloodless surgery. Engardio's own story is compelling. Witnesses, like the Amish, are baptized as teenagers or young adults; at that moment, they accept the mantle of their faith. Engardio declined to be baptized, he says, because he thought he could do more good in the world than out of it. He is also gay. His sexual orientation didn't lead him to abandon the church, but long term, "it wouldn't have been a good fit," he says. "I broke my mother's heart. Twice." (Unlike some other fundamentalist sects, the Witnesses condone recreational sex, as long as it's within marriage; they prohibit homosexual sex.) And what of all the knocking, which so many people find so irritating? Witnesses knock on doors, he explains, in order to live as much as they can like the disciples of Jesus. That way, they will be prepared for Armageddon and for the perfect world of peace and health on Earth that will follow.

Engardio declined to be baptized, he says, because he thought he could do more good in the world than out of it. He is also gay. His sexual orientation

Watchtower apologist have already spun Joel's case as showing how no child is compelled to get baptized and how disfellowshipped disgruntled only have themselves to blame.

(Danny Haszard was forced to get baptized in 1967 at the tender age of 11 because my elder dad and 99% of all JW's said that armageddon was coming in 1975 and I had to be consecrated)

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Is shunning scriptural? At all?

by Open mind in

it's obvious that the jw view of shunning goes way beyond anything called for in the bible.

1 cor 5:11-13 says,(nwt) "but now i am writing you to quit mixing in company with anyone called a brother that is a fornicator or a greedy person or an idolater or a reviler or a drunkard or an extortioner, not even eating with such a man.

for what do i have to do with judging those outside?

DannyHaszard

JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES 'R THE FAMILY WRECKERS OF THE WORLD

"if my family has any contact with me they will be justifying my ungodly lifestyle"

Ring a bell? It's not from the Jehovah's Witnesses it's an excerpt form the discovery channel documentary on 'doomsday cults' describing the practice of the *Roberts group* a disturbing cult. See all cults like JW's have a shunning shame device to control members.. To be treated like a man of the nations (gentile) or as a tax collector does not mean that i am viewed as 'dead' by my mother. Everything about the Watchtower's shunning protocol is twisted and demonic.
The shunning by other religions for comparison is irrelevant as the Watchtower claims that it's disfellowshipping is at the direction of the holy spirit so it must be infallible.This is outright blaspheme.

In just one year 1987 i calculated by the Watchtower's own stats that 4.4 men woman and children were disfellowshipped per hour as the world turned on it's axis.

Get this,the Watchtower asserts that every single one was @ "the direction of the holy spirit"
This is utter blaspheme by the watchtower/elder leadership.

How many blasphemes do you charlatans need to be eternally damned?One,or how about 37,000 for that year of 1987?These are wrecked and ruined lives people.

Matthew 18:10 Jesus dire warning to his high ranking apostles;" see to it that you do not despise one of these little ones,for i tell you their angels in heaven always behold the face of my father who is in heaven."
The written and oral directives of the flunky elders is one priority,that is to intimidate and save face with the followers and to stonewall a potential civil lawsuit.

Look either it's the Holy Spirit or it ain't da Holy spirit.They told me even when they are wrong in Judgment i must consider it a test of my faith and bite the bullet.What kind of mealy mouthing gobbledygook is that?

No it's blaspheme.

Tell the truth and don't be afraid-Danny Haszard 'expert witness on the Jehovah Witness'

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Sixteen Child Sex Abuse Lawsuits against Jehovahs Witnesses Are Settled

by Dogpatch in

press release 5/10/07.

http://www.freeminds.org/history/16lawsuits.htm.

sixteen child sex abuse lawsuits against jehovahs witnesses are settled.

DannyHaszard

Jehovah's Witnesses settle sex abuse cases POST A COMMENT
Louisville Courier-Journal, KY - 7 hours ago
A victims' rights group has released documents that show the Jehovah's Witnesses recently settled civil suits with 16 people who claimed they were sexually ...

This is now TOP ranked in the news as I type this going into 'knocking' debut week