Out of curiosity, I don't have it to look up, but isn't this the same letter sent to Dateline?
Ya know, I was reading the letter, and the feeling was, I read this somewhere before..
A few things changed, but nothing of substance:
A.) We abhore pedophealia
1.) Don't even mention that word within our congregation, especially if you are accusing one of 'gods' people..!!!
2.) Pedophealia? We don't have that in god's organization.. Only Christendom suffers from such gross sins!
B.) We protect the flock via bible principles
1.) You must tell us everything of what happened little girl
2.) we will ask in a polite manner the accused if indeed he did it
3.) He said NO, you (11 year old girl) must now come with us and state in front of this man what he did to you
4.) He still said NO!
a.) We are sorry, and thank you for your time in helping us resolve this matter, brother
b.) Little girl, He did nothing, and you are guilty of spreading false witness within the congregation.. A very serious offense!
c.) Little girl's parents get counseled on how the IMAGE of Jehovah's people is everything, and NOTHING can be proven by Jehovah's standards.. You are welcome to report this if you want, but we remind you that NOTHING can be proven within God's organization, and spreading false witness is punishable by DF, not to mention the reproach YOU would bring upon Jehovah's name by bringing in secular authorities.. After all, we are god's people.. What can secular authorities prove that we cannot?
C.) We don't allow any convicted pedophile to serve in any capacity within the congregation
1.) All he can do is go door-to-door.. He can molest worldly people all he wants, but he cannot have any authority within our organization
2.) There is an escape clause; If we determine through very rare circumstances that he is OK, we can appoint him
a.) this is a CYA clause.. Just in case you find the few MS/Elders in our midst's that have a record and are still people in 'authority', we can 'show' that he is indeed an upstanding citizen, and make up the 'rare instance' rule as we go along (since we didn't tell you what it was yet)
D.) We keep records to protect our 'flock'
1.) We keep records on everyone, it just so happens that we may record (or may not, probably not) accusations of pedophealia.
2.) This has NOTHING to do with protecting the flock, this has to do with
a.) Who is putting in the most hours every month (You know, Jehovah is gonna wanna review these records)
b.) who are the trouble makers, and have any semblence of independant thought -- we need to reprogram these ones, or remove them quickly
c.) We even keep records on non-witnesses just for the fun of it!!! Hahaha, do something about it!!! Privacy laws - we laugh in your face!
E. ) Did I mention we follow the bible?
1.) We interpret the bible to be what we want it to be, whenever we need it to say whatever we need it to say, we twist a scripture to apply
a.) example: 2 classes of Christians
b.) example: 1914 -- oops, sorry, bad example, based on a secular date which we mangled... circular logic!!!
c.) see example b
d.) FYI: we don't need 2 witnesses to accuse someone outside of the organization of any wrong doing; they are of satan, and don't deserve 2 witnesses to anything
F.) Have a nice day
1.) Can't wait for you to die a horrible death in the Tribluation!