This makes me terribly sad, and unbelievably furious at the same time.
I remember how devastated I felt after The Memorial™ in 1994, in the throes of severe postpartum depression, having been refused the opportunity to pass the Emblems™. Here they were letting DFd people and complete strangers participate, but because I was suffering from a debilitating mental illness, some idiot Elder™ decided that I might "partake unworthily" and so instucted the Attendants™ to make sure I was not allowed to handle the wine or the bread.
It just topped off how horrible I felt at the time, and the next day I ended up in hospital on a suicide watch. I just wanted to spare Jehovah the bother of destroying me at Armageddon™. Thankfully, I had the help of a terrific physician and a skilled psychiatrist, and visiting nurses who restored my faith in humankind and helped me on the road to recovery.
To know that this kind of mental browbeating is still allowed to happen makes my blood boil.
