Cyngus,
You said:
Bill, or anyone else, can you show me where, biblically, the WTS' policy is in error? Can you or anybody else detail the non-Biblical errors of the manner in which the WTS handles child molestation issues?
According to Erica, who was sexually assaulted and abused since the age of four in the state of Washington and then abused in California by another elder, the WTS threatened both the victims and the victim's parents with disfellowshipping if they exposed the errors of the Society in not turning information over to the police in regards to the pervert/elder who was sexually assaulting the little girls in the congregation. He should have been punished not only for what he did to Erica but for what he did to the other children. That didn't happen because of the coverup. They received legal advice from headquarters in New York.
According to the victim's of the pervert/elder in England, they did the same thing. Didn't turn the criminal in, and threatened the victims. They acted on advice from the local headquarters which was going by rules from headquarters in New York.
According to the victims in New Hampshire (I believe it was from the seal on the wall behind the DA) who were sexually tortured in a basement for years, the WTS didn't turn the criminal in and threatened the victims. They acted on advice from headquarters in New York.
According to the victims in New Jersey, the WTS didn't turn in the pervert and threatened the victims. They acted on advice from headquarters in New York.
According to the tape of the legal staff at Headquarters in New York, the local elder calling in was told not to get himself in a "Jam" about the abuse, but was to walk away.
According to the tape of the phone discussion with the WTS representative in the UK, the elders should report abuses not to the police, but to THEM, "for the sake of the child" or words to that effect. They would give advice on what to do next. We have seen what that advice would be.
These were investigated by documentary programs and the tapes and scripts are available to anyone who wants to check it out.
In each case the victims wound up wounded, ashamed, disfellowshipped or shunned. If their parents supported them they were punished by the WTS also.
In at least a couple of cases the perverts were wecomed BACK into the cult with open arms and were soon going door to door again without informing the public of what they were. In each case the police had trouble getting the information needed from the elders and in each case local witnesses rallied to the cause of the pervert sometimes with nearly identical responses. This is a system of lies, a pattern of breaking the law, and as the DA said in of the documentaries, it seemed like criminal negligence to him.
If you can't see where this pattern of lies, this lack of love or compassion for the children who were victims, this punishment of the innocent for the sake of protecting a false image, is unbiblical, then there isn't much help for you. You need to re-up as there is room for you at the top. You couldn't be a GREAT TREE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS like these liars, but you might make CHIEFTAIN.
Erica nailed them pretty good with her one word response to JR's press release: Liars.
My biblical response will be limited to one verse: Rev. 22:15
Outside are the dogs and those who practice spiritism and the fornicators and the murderers and the idolaters and everyone liking and carrying on a lie.'
The Jehovah's Witnesses have made an idol of the WTS and they bow to it in every detail of their lives. They will embrace and spread whatever lie their idol tells them too. They will disrespect parents, shun children, cover over sin, lie to the law (they don't DESERVE the truth) and do anything else commanded by Brooklyn. This isn't an opinon, it is a documented fact.
Grunt