My judicial committee in 1996 included presiding overseer who was also in a leadership role of Langston University. He’d clearly audited some courses in law, as he chose to employ what, I learned years later as a student, is commonly called “the prisoner’s dilemma” to extract conflicting confessions from co-defendants. I found the whole process so confusing. How had I spent 1,000 hours a year recommending this religion to strangers? I consulted my father’s copy of elder’s guidebook. No instructions to “sweat the accused” for an hour before each judicial meeting, and a resolute prohibition of anonymous testimony of ambiguous misdeeds. After an appeal committee upheld the original decision on a thin “we cannot perceive the difference between weakness and wickedness, so err on the side of caution” ground, I met more procedural impropriety upon calls for reinstatement. Tracing my family history, I found my father had sat on a committee which had disfellowshipped the elder’s own son, knew I’d connected the dots and would never allow me to return. My mother died en route to a circuit convention in a car accident and I enjoyed shunning at her funeral, so at last had the last adhesive of faith dissolved and am content to be agnostic today. Grudge sayin’.
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Personal Grudges and Judicial Committees: is There a Link?
by passwordprotected ini've received a submitted article for publication on my blog (http://thegoverningbody.org).
this is from the introduction:.
i have an issue i would like raise.
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