Watch Tower picketed by anti-Jehovah's

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June 25, 2005

Halton Hills - Georgetown: A group calling themselves 'The Apologetic Response' picketed The Jehovah Watch Tower on Highway 7 Saturday afternoon. Scores of cars rolled by beeping their horns in support, some stopping for more information.

A group of a dozen protesters gathered outside the gates of the Watch Tower raising issues over the Jehovah publication - AWAKE, which, through it's cover and articles, glorifies the religious sacrifices practiced by the Jehovah's. The cover, according to protestor Grace Gough, depicted and glorified the death of children, devote Jehovah's, whose deaths, she said, were attributed to refusing medical care.

According to the groups leaflet; "The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society has a long history of doctrine reversals about what God requires of its members regarding medical care. The WTBS previously prohibited vaccinations from 1929-1952. Organ transplants were banned from 1967-1980 under threat of judicial sanction and excommunication by the organization, as well as for accepting any blood components which are now considered acceptable by society."

Page 10 of the leaflet publication - "Did Bethany Really Have To Die?" states; "Jehovah's Witnesses received important new medical instructions in the November 15, 1967, issue of THE WATCHTOWER. An article in the "Questions from Readers" section on pages 702-704 present a new ruling handed down from the Brooklyn headquarters to the effect that "sustaining one's life by means of the body or the part of another...would be cannibalism, a practice abhorrent to all civilized people" and condemned by God. The article explained that organ transplants were "simply a shortcut" to cannibalistically chewing and eating human flesh."

Grace Gough, 78 of St. Jacobs was a Jehovah practitioner of 25 years. In her own words, "After my husband died I began to see the light", so-to-speak. She left the group and was cut off from her children and grand children who were also Jehovah's and have since produced great grand children whom she's never been able to meet, due to her excommunication.

The Apologetic Response group gathered from different parts of the country to protest at the Halton Hills location of the Watch Tower of Canada. Lawrence Hughes flew in from Calgary for the protest. His daughter, Bethany Hughes, a beautiful 17 year old grade eleven student originally from Belleville Ontario, died September 4, 2002 in Calgary Alberta after a seven month battle with a form of leukemia when her court enforced blood transfusions were discontinued. Darren Frost was from Brampton. All shared a common factor, they had lost a loved one through the groups religious practices and wanted to bring to light their concerns.

See WatchTower cover click here.

Visit the Watch Tower's site for more information on "No Blood".
 

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