Lifeistooshort told us the WT spokesman said, "the elder have the flock book to go by."
Gee, and who publishes the FLOCK book?
The fact is that the elders are being left out to dry by Brooklyn. On one hand, elders are told they MUST call Brooklyn in cases involving pedophilia, and yet the Brooklyn HQ has the audacity to say these elders are "independent agents!"
They haven't been independent agents since JF Rutherford abolished the elected elder arrangement and installed a system in which all elders were appointed by Brooklyn - all "company men" who would do whatever Brooklyn told them to do.
It is unfortunately that although this deviousness and duplicity would not be tolerated in any criminal or civil case, because the WTB&TS is protected by the concept of "freedom of religion" they are not required to be consistent in their statements. They can tell the court that black is black and then in the next sentence say that black is white, and since that is a "religious view," it is accepted without challenge.
Elders are giving up their vaunted positions as "shining ones" because of their own sense of self-preservation. Let a few of these "independent"agent" elders lose their homes or get sent to prison and watch the ripple effect as even more realize that to the Brooklyn HQ of the WTB&TS, they are expendable pawns.
