DING DING DING!!!!! Critical Witness & Fat Freek. I have been saying this to the Mrs for a while !! YES!!
I had friends and family serve at Bethel in the late 40s, 50s, 60s, and I was there in the 70s. Bethel -headquarters had a number of men " who had the GIFT of singleness"....ie no burning desire for female companionship. Instead some of these ones who did "not quite fit in" in home congregations prefered guys, a FEW prefered children. Over a period of many years some of these rose to positions of power in the Borg.
For those of you who remember the 60s, many a sister was told she was "not scripturally free" if her husband ingaged in homosexuality or bestiality, because THAT was not adultry. Anything other than the male organ in the female organ was "loose conduct"....hummm why the double standard from the GB ?
We have only to type in the search box here to find many of these accounts about Governing Body members and accusations of child abuse.