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It’s been a while since I posted on Jehovah’s Witnesses in the news. Here’s a roundup. Refusals of blood transfusions, resulting in death. Sexual predators and child molestation. Mental instability. Violence. Even a possible kidnapping. The usual.
I am sure that I’ve missed several additional items, but I’ve become too sad to do more than [...]

Watchtower Cashing In on Real Estate
Nonprofits Not Shy About Cashing In on Real Estate Gems
In Brooklyn, the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Watchtower Bible & Tract Co. of New York sold a building at 89 Hicks St. to Brooklyn Law School. A few months ago it sold a 48-unit elevator apartment building for $14 million.

(Non-JW!) College Students Ban [...]

Bush finally decided to veto something after six years: Stem cell research - a bill that even this Congress passed in both Houses.
“Now that’s something to save yer virgin veto for! All the people who might benefit from the research - well, they don’t matter so much. Those are future people - they don’t [...]

If you’re wondering why I haven’t blogged on the current violence in the Middle East, it’s because my opinion is not as well-informed as it could be. I don’t feel qualified to stand forth with an analysis.
I don’t trust much of what I’m hearing in the news, especially knowing that there is a lot of [...]

Dear Friends and Relatives:
I have the distinguished honor of being on the committee to raise $5,000,000 for a monument to George W. Bush.
We originally wanted to put him on Mt. Rushmore until we discovered there was not enough room for two more faces.
We then decided to erect a statue of George in the Washington, DC [...]

It’s such a familiar narrative now, and it’s almost comforting to me to see more and more people testifying to it - to know that what I observed and experienced is pretty much the same from congregation to congregation, and not just a matter of my own family or community in the Jehovah’s Witnesses: the [...]

There is something inherent in controlling authoritarian communities like the JWs that helps to produce - and serves in some ways to protect - sexual predators of all kinds and, for some reason, especially pedophiles. There was at least one such in my own congregation, who described me as a “perfect little doll” to my [...]