andersonsinfo - "...blood transfusions are now said publicly to be a conscience matter and many elders have a 'Don’t ask, don’t tell policy'.”
Shit, I didn't know this. Man, that must've chapped Jaracz's ass.
andersonsinfo - "Since the 'Big News', an Alberta Appeals court decided that people could sue the Watch Tower for secular misrepresentations of blood made by Watch Tower."
Shit, I didn't know this either. Is this likely to work its way up to the federal level up here in Canada?
satinka - "Sadly, we see time and time again, that Jehovah's Witnesses never want to admit they were wrong about anything."
They can't, at least about significant things like their stance on transfusions.
They percieve (correctly, IMO) that if they admit to error about something that big, the inevitable question among any remaining R&Fers (with half a brain) will be "what the hell else have they gotten wrong???" I can attest personally that that often marks the beginning of the end for those particular R&Fers.
I suspect that up until recently, the GB was hoping that it could hold out until synthetic transfusion blood was approved by the FDA (and subsequently declare it a full "concience matter" with no recriminations for its use), but the seemingly endless delays in said approval are clearly backing them into an extremely uncomfortable corner.
I'm left wondering if GB2.0 and their small private army of pro-bono lawyers will actually blink as the ponderous but implacable juggernaught of the developed world's secular justice system gets up in their face more and more, or if it'll snarl and raise its hackles even more the way it's doing with higher ed, the internet, and a 21st Century socio-political environment that keeps stubbornly refusing to follow their Fred-Franz-penned eschatalogical script.