You probably won't ever get the general public to care. Even with all of this talk about Leah Remley special no one cares about Scientologists and their practices. JWs and Scientologists and Mormons are nothing more than a punchline. There weren't big protest outside of the Scientologist headquarters or their celebrity centre in LA after she did her special. So why would you think that people would care about Witnesses?
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Do you think the general public cares about former Jehovah's witnesses?
by Christian Gutierrez ini was wondering if you guys think if the general public cares about our stories or if they even care what the watchtower does to people??
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Trump moves against paedophiles
by zeb inon the alex jones radio program (yes we get it here via emails) just recently he highlighted that president trump has cleared the way fro action against paedophiles.
i was unable to cut and past the item.. two things here.
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John Davis
Trump maybe meaning that he will want ICE to enforce the laws the prosecute American Citizens that engage in sex tourism with minors. \
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Trump moves against paedophiles
by zeb inon the alex jones radio program (yes we get it here via emails) just recently he highlighted that president trump has cleared the way fro action against paedophiles.
i was unable to cut and past the item.. two things here.
cut and paste please.
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John Davis
There should be a change in the law so that sexual child abuse is a crime across the country in the same way with the same penalties. It is weird how there is no unifying law for all 50 states on this but there is a federal law where if you go to another country with the sole intention of committing child abuse in a foreign country and even if it is not illegal in that country the US Government can still arrest and charge you with a crime.
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Trump moves against paedophiles
by zeb inon the alex jones radio program (yes we get it here via emails) just recently he highlighted that president trump has cleared the way fro action against paedophiles.
i was unable to cut and past the item.. two things here.
cut and paste please.
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John Davis
Trump can instruct the Justice Department to focus their law enforcement agencies on going after paedophiles but that is all he can do on his own. But for the most part sexual child abuse is not a federal crime, which it should be, it is only a federal crime if you use the internet, phone or mail to entice a minor to engage in sexual abuse, or if you transport a minor across state lines to sexually abuse a child, or if you transmit images or depictions of the abuse through the internet, phone or mail, or if the abuse takes place on federally owned land or property. The closest law that deals with child abuse on the federal level are 42USC 5106g which just defines abuse when it comes to a parent or caregiver either giving treatment or withholding treatment of a child medical condition that causes death or injury, but that also requires the states to enact the laws to enforce those definitions.
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The Satisfying Decline Of My Old Congregations Donations
by pale.emperor inaccording to the uk charity commission, my old kingdom hall is hemorrhaging money and less is coming in.
long may it continue.. any ideas what a crappy, run down, shack of a kh spends £49,472.87 on in three years?
they were praying for a new hall for about 10 years until bethel basically stole it off them to build warwick.. .
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John Davis
Also, the 2015 number is an anomaly. The 2015 number is more in line with the rest of the numbers provided, still a decline but not as big of a decline.
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Witnesses Agree That Institutions That Don’t Report Child Abuse Should Be Fined
by cha ching intoday my husband was on his way to meet a friend.
the purpose of the meeting was to discuss how to have a bill introduced into congress, which would require non-profit institutions to report child abuse to the authorities.
the penalty for not reporting would be a fine.. one of the motives behind this effort, is to raise awareness about child sex abuse.
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John Davis
The first step is to get Congress to actually make child abuse a federal crime, which it should be. That seems like what Australia wants to do by making one age of consent law and making child sexual abuse a federal level offence rather than just letting each province make their own decision on this horrific crime. And even the Witnesses, for whatever that is worth, said that they would be happy if the government did that.
It is sad though that the political system in America is so broken that even for something so basic and easy to realise that it is needed won't ever pass. The two political parties can't agree on a single thing and neither trust the other not to throw on amendments that would make it so that the other party can't vote for it.
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Obey the governments...wait...DON'T obey the governments.
by Funchback ini was thinking about how they jws are having underground meetings in russia and other countries giving total disregard to the laws established by their local governments.
i assume they would pull the "we're followers of god, not men" card.. but then on jw .
org they have this:two children of jehovah’s witnesses, expelled for conscientious stand, return to school.
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John Davis
I am in no way feel that Witnesses should do this if they are banned they should be banned. But in the US black slaves would escape from their slavery, which was against the law but would never have dreamed of breaking any other types of laws, where they wrong for breaking the law by escaping. Juries do it too where the will find someone not guilty of a law that they don't' believe is a just law even though the person did, in fact, break that law. So I can see why some people may break some laws that they feel is not right but otherwise, they are law abiding citizens.
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Why would Watchtower fight Stratton Ohio
by John Davis inwhy would watchtower sue stratton ohio, and then laud it over and over in their books?
the town doesn't even have 300 people, why would they pick on such a small town.
they are promoting it so much at this week's meeting.
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John Davis
Even one of their smaller assemblies has like at least 3 or 4 times the whole population of that town.
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Why would Watchtower fight Stratton Ohio
by John Davis inwhy would watchtower sue stratton ohio, and then laud it over and over in their books?
the town doesn't even have 300 people, why would they pick on such a small town.
they are promoting it so much at this week's meeting.
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This is from this weeks meeting. Their material
DECISION June 17, 2002
COUNTRY United States
ISSUE Freedom of expression.
FACTS The village of Stratton in the state of Ohio issues an ordinance that requires anyone engaging in door-to-door activity to obtain a permit. Federal trial and appeals courts hold that the ordinance is constitutional.
RULING The Supreme Court strikes down the ordinance as unconstitutional and reaffirms the right to free exercise of religion and the right to freedom of expression. The Court notes that the Witnesses explained that they “derive their authority to preach from Scripture.”
IMPACT Hundreds of municipalities desist from applying similar ordinances to the ministry of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
This is from Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratton,_Ohio
Stratton is a village in Jefferson County, Ohio, United States, along the Ohio River. The population was 294 at the 2010 census.
History[edit]
Stratton gained international attention in 2002 when it lost before the United States Supreme Court in the matter of Watchtower Society v. Village of Stratton, a case in which a town ordinance's provisions making it a misdemeanor to engage in door-to-door advocacy without first registering with town officials and receiving a permit violates the First Amendment as it applies to religious proselytizing, anonymous political speech and the distribution of handbills.
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Why would Watchtower fight Stratton Ohio
by John Davis inwhy would watchtower sue stratton ohio, and then laud it over and over in their books?
the town doesn't even have 300 people, why would they pick on such a small town.
they are promoting it so much at this week's meeting.
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John Davis
Why would Watchtower sue Stratton Ohio, and then laud it over and over in their books? The town doesn't even have 300 people, why would they pick on such a small town. They are promoting it so much at this week's meeting.