This writer has a long resume of articles, and this is the only one (in three parts) that focuses on JWS. It appears that she has been 'hooked' by their (hahaha) sincerity (PUKE).
problemaddict2 - I found this story a bit taxing on my belief - a teen JW who is learning to play violin and writes poetry? His family must be spiritually weak to let him engage in such frivolous, non-scriptural activities. YET he is faithful enough to die for lack of a transfusion?
And then she actually uses a JW 'urban legend' story? Very unprofessional, to my eyes. HUH?
Watchtower leaders still talk about a case from the nineteen-seventies, in which a hospital in Canada collided with a witness family. In that case, a baby was born with severe jaundice resulting from a condition that causes the destruction of red blood cells. The treatment at the time was to exchange the child’s blood through transfusion. The parents, however, refused; they wanted to try light therapy, which was then experimental, though it has since become the standard of care. When it became clear that the doctors were going to get a court order to require transfusion, the parents, according to lore, smuggled the newborn out of the hospital and drove to another institution, where light therapy was available. Apparently, after the child was exposed to sunlight for several hours in the parents’ convertible, by the time the family reached the second hospital the jaundice had substantially subsided.