Archive for the ‘Jehovah’s Witness’ tag
Jehovah’s Witnesses support same sex marriage inadvertently
Despite JW fundamentalist ban of gay marriage, old Supreme Court ruling in their favour used to defeat Prop 8 in California
Jehovah's Witnesses supporting same sex marriage
The California decision by United States District Chief Judge Vaughn R Walker reversed Prop 8′s ban of same-sex or gay marriage in the state.
Part of the legal argument FOR gay marriage comes from a 65 year old Supreme Court ruling that granted freedom of religious expression to Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Walker said that the majority opinion does not eliminate fundamental rights for a minority.
Ironically Jehovah’s Witnesses ban same-sex marriage. They disfellowship or shun any member who openly participates in same-sex acts or relationships.
The reference by Judge Walker to West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette will have the Watchtower Society scratching their heads. “How did we help those wicked sons and daughters of Sodom and Gomorrah?” they will be asking themselves.
Unhappy Fathers Day for Jehovahs Witnesses
Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t celebrate Father’s Day. Today is particularly miserable for their members and families
Jehovah's Witness, been there got the t-shirt
The right-wing protestant sect is more likely to participate in the break up of a family than holding it together contrary to their public relations messages.
Holidays that most people associate with family – Christmas, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and Birthdays – are acutely painful for ex-Jehovah’s Witnesses. They are reminded each year that their family does not want them. In time, they learn to form new relationships and family groups but there is always a place in their hearts that hurts.
On Friday night at Churchill’s I ran into a young friend who was still nursing the hurt of being brought up in a Jehovah’s Witness family. When he decided to strike out on his own, his mother and father ostracized him. To add insult to injury, a Montague elder Gerry Deveau disfellowshipped him.
Disfellowshipping is the Jehovah’s Witness version of shunning or excommunication. A person who is disfellowshipped is cut off from their family unless they recant whatever slight an elder like Deveau concocts. I know this character. Deveau stalked me for two years trying to find something to accuse me of like a modern Javert from Les Misérables.
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Kevin Smith on Prince
The filmmaker meets the artist they call Prince who is into himself and Jesus as a Jehovah’s Witness
Kevin Smith was asked to film a documentary for Prince. His commentary on the process of meeting and working with Prince are hilarious. Warning – contains cursing.
Part 2 after the break
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Hitler’s euthanasia program murdered disabled first
Campaign that killed 6 million Jews, dissidents and Romans was perfected first on Germans with disabilities
Buses used to transport patients to Hadamar euthanasia center. The windows were painted to prevent people from seeing those inside. Germany, between May and September 1941.
Part 1 in a series of 4 articles
The term “euthanasia” (literally, “good death”) usually refers to the inducement of a painless death for a chronically or terminally ill individual who would otherwise suffer. In the Nazi context, however, “euthanasia” represented a euphemistic term for a clandestine murder program which targeted for systematic killing mentally and physically disabled patients living in institutional settings in Germany and German-annexed territories.
The so-called “Euthanasia” program was National Socialist Germany’s first program of mass murder, predating the genocide of European Jewry, which we call the Holocaust, by approximately two years. The effort represented one of many radical eugenic measures which aimed to restore the racial “integrity” of the German nation. It endeavored to eliminate what eugenicists and their supporters considered “life unworthy of life”: those individuals who–they believed–because of severe psychiatric, neurological, or physical disabilities represented at once a genetic and a financial burden upon German society and the state. Read the rest of this entry »
Jehovahs Witnesses influence Hip-Hop Rap
Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Watchtower are linked to Ja Rule, Notorious B.I.G. and Busta Rhymes
Pimp My Ride girls you won't meet at the Kingdom Hall
By Spider Perez, GroupSRV.com – Ja Rule, The Notorious B.I.G., Krayzie Bone, Busta Rhymes, along with current hot Rap artists “K-OS” (pronounced “chaos”) and MTV’s Pimp My Ride host, “XZIBIT”, as well as DMX were all reared as Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Who would suspect that the Watchtower Society and Jehovah’s Witnesses was the religious and moral “spring” from which these Rappers “drank” during their formative years? Many, if not most of these Rappers once spent their Saturday mornings and Sunday afternoons peddling Watchtower magazines door-to-door.
This is a “phenomenon” which is begging to be researched and explained.
Ordinarily, most informed persons are surprised when they learn that a Jehovah’s Witnesses individual or even a JW family has/have attained celebrity status. Why? Read the rest of this entry »
Serena Williams marrying Rapper Common
He’s 38 she’s 28 and Jehovah’s Witness – might want to think things over
Serena Williams
Word is out, all over town, Serena and Rapper Common might be getting hitched.
“Rapper Lonnie Rashid Lynn, better known as Common, has fueled rumors that he will marry Serena Williams by going public with his love for the tennis champion.”
“Serena is a beautiful, fun and a strong woman. I love her heart and her strength. She’s a warmhearted human being. I think she’s incredible,” quoted Common, 38, as saying. (IANS London)
Look out – marrying a Jehovah’s Witness when you aren’t one of them is a case of the bad news bears. JWs, as they are known, have strict rules about marrying people “in the Truth” which is code for one of us.
Just like RC in the old days, the non-believer has to promise to bring up children “in the truth”, study the Watchtower diligently and pray for Armageddon to come soon destroying all mankind other than the strong “brothers and sisters in the truth”.
Rappers are generally the antithesis of what JWs preach will survive the coming cataclysm.
Rapper Common may be a betting man and figure the end isn’t coming soon. Just say the words man even if you don’t mean it.
My writing career and New Year’s Resolutions
Would a million people read my book if I wrote one
Dear Mike,
Thanks for writing and best wishes to you in the land of the longest night.
I’m writing up a storm as usual. Someone asked me if I would write a book instead of blogging. I might but this satisfies half of a writer’s need for love.
Last year I broke my previous records with like 290,000 readers, 2.2 million pages read and 8 million hits. Would that many people read a book I wrote? I don’t think so.
My sort-of-brother in law publishes and once he gets passed 50 friends, it’s a slog to sell a 1,000 copies. I would be depressed schlepping books near the remainder bins at Chapters or, should I be so lucky, Borders.
Readers choice US News of 2009
Not quite CNN or even Fox News
10. Associated Press and Fox News make false copyright claims
9. Don’t miss the lunar impact tomorrow – Friday October 9th 2009
8. What a difference Obama makes
7. Kellerman CFO of Freddie Mac commits suicide
6. FBI using spyware to track your internet traffic
5. Space craft crash on moon Friday
4. Sex offender Garrido used Jehovah’s Witness to get early parole
3. Jehovah’s Witnesses arrested in $116 billion seizure of fake US Bonds
London’s “Night Stalker” was Jehovah’s Witness
Remanded: Delroy Grant leaves Greenwich Magistrates Court in South London photo: MailOnline
Alleged rapist and criminal Delroy Grant looked after disabled wife
Since 1992 London police have been looking for the masked man who raped, assaulted and robed more than 100 elderly women and men.
Wearing a balaclava, he would attack single people living alone and left only his DNA. He would torture and threaten his victims over four or five hours shining a light in their faces and beating them,
On Monday morning Delroy Grant, 52, appeared in Magistrates Court to answer 22 charges of rape and indecent assault. He said little other than his name.
Grant was arrested Sunday morning based on good old police work and forensic science. He was in his car late at night in Shirley, Croyden not far from where he lived in Brockley.
While he left no fingerprints, he did leave DNA samples that identified him as someone from the Windward Islands in the Caribbean.
Gram and her Sid
Pottie's at Mary's wedding - Jimmy, Sid, Pops, Eddie, Cam, Clary (dad), Mary, Gram, Charlie, Margaret, Pat and Johnny
Growing up hidden Acadian in Halifax
(updated)
This is a follow up to a reader’s comment on My uncle Sid. One family story leads to another.
My grand-mère was as strict an Acadian Catholic as God made. Half Scottish and half Acadian from Arichat, Isle Madame, Cape Breton, she would use Gaelic when angry.
I remember rabbit pie on the stove at home in Halifax, which amazingly which gets honorary mention in an Ecole Buote lesson plan.
Quote of the day
It struck me that Iran is run by an Islamic equivalent to radical Jehovah’s Witnesses. Ahmadinejad believes that when the Twelfth Imam returns from his centuries long exile (no, he is not dead) that everything will be alright. The Clerics are upset because this means they will all get beheaded. The end is nigh. Lillith-Stuff
Pedophiles hide out in Catholic Church, Jehovah’s Witnesses and Pentecostals
RC Bishop Raymond Lahey, caught with child porn on multiple computers was protected by Church
Pedophiles are attracted to professions and volunteer in places where child victims are plentiful
I sick at heart over the revelations that revered leaders of the Roman Catholic Church are either pedophiles or harboring them. But Bishop Lahey is the tip of the iceberg on this story. Pedophiles are being discovered among other religious leaders as well.
Bishop Lahey’s computer had hundreds of child porn images, police allege says the Globe and Mail. Settlements with abused boys has almost bankrupted Catholic diocese in Nova Scotia, Boston and all over North America.
Predatory ex-teacher and JW preacher to appeal
Robert Bill convicted teacher and preacher photo: BBC
A former teacher and church official jailed for attempting to abduct a five-year-old child is appealing against his convictions.
BBC News Robert Bill, 54, of St Asaph, Denbighshire, was told by a judge that he had an “unhealthy sexual and predatory interest in children”.
He has also been convicted separately of indecently assaulting a young girl, and possessing 730 indecent images.
The case will be heard at the Court of Appeal in London later this year.
Bill, a senior Jehovah’s Witness, taught art and design for 16 years before setting up a playground equipment company in 1991, then later a play company with his sons called Play Zone.
