Jehovah's Witnesses have released this bizarre, disturbing video teaching kids to be homophobic

[KamaAina]

http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/jehovahs-witnesses-released-bizarre-disturbing-video-teaching-kids-homophobic/

Jehovah’s Witnesses have released a bizarre, disturbing video teaching kids to be homophobic.

The video, which clearly had a high budget and inspired by Pixar, shows a young child ‘learning a lesson’ from her bigoted mother about same-sex marriage. It is part of a series of videos teaching children about the scripture, called ‘Be Jehovah’s Friend!’...

She says in the video Jehovah, who ‘invented marriage’ as between one man and one woman, has his ‘standards’ to get into heaven and they ‘haven’t changed’.

‘It’s like going on an airplane. What would happen if someone wanted to bring something on the plane that wasn’t allowed? It’s the same with Jehovah. He wants us to be his friend, and live in Paradise forever!’

It may be just as well that Prince never lived to see this.

[joeybee12]

1. From what I've read, Prince probably agreed with this...nt

[Schema Thing]

2. It's pretty well documented that Prince agreed with this.

[Takket]

3. my daughter has been assimilated by that cult

something that sickens me and breaks my heart every day. i keep hoping someday she will come to her senses.

[LiberalElite]

4. When I attended night school years back, I'd chat with a fellow

student on the way home on the bus. One eve. it was near Thanksgiving and she expressed to me her unhappiness that her son didn't celebrate Thanksgiving because he had become a Jehovah's Witness. A couple semesters passed and our paths didn't cross for some reason- then we met up again on the bus. Now she didn't celebrate Thanksgiving either - she had joined them.

[Takket]

7. her son either pressured her or outright shunned her to get her "in line"

JW's can be VERY persuasive. They are always smiles when they want you to join... and once you do.... the truth comes out.

[LiberalElite]

8. Yes. I worked with one who was always very pleasant and helpful but

one day we were complaining about the state of the world... she started to bring up her talking points. I nipped it in the bud. I see them just about every day in the NYC subway stations and on the street. They're very regimented - they even all hold their booklets in the same way.

[Takket]

10. i don't want to air out my whole personal life on the board but

suffice to say i have an intimate knowledge of them, their techniques, and the truth that lurks in the shadows. i count myself lucky to have never been a part of the organization, but i am close to those that have left, and those that are still in, and it is an ugly truth.

[KamaAina]

9. That's what happened to Prince

He had a JW friend who talked him into it.

[LiberalElite]

11. I kept my co-worker "at arm's length" -

I'm aware of some of their, uh, UNUSUAL beliefs.

[NightWatcher]

5. Hooray for cults

Oh if Prince was a JW, he was aware of their positions on issues.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

6. does it say Jehovah invented other mammals, which engage in homosexual activity?

[hunter]

12. I was JW until my mom was bounced from the religion. Literally. Big guys at the door...

... of the Kingdom Hall. Though shalt not pass. Shunned.

My mom's sin is that she can't stay out of politics. Yep, that's her in the peace march on the TV news.

I learned I didn't have to participate in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Fourth grade, a well meaning teacher explained to the class why I didn't stand for the pledge, religious freedom and all that, which enhanced my reputation as one of the weirder kids.

Kicked out of the Witnesses our family was then Quaker. I still didn't have to say the Pledge. I still don't.

My mom's ancestors were pacifists who'd fled war ravaged Europe for America's Wild West, mostly in the nineteenth century.

My last immigrant ancestor was a mail order bride to Salt Lake City. She didn't like sharing a husband so she ran away with some guy. They homesteaded some land my mom's cousin still owns. It's still more than a hundred miles to the nearest McDonalds or WalMart.

My mom's dad was a Conscientious Objector in World War II. He wouldn't take up arms. They gave him a choice, prison or building Liberty and Victory Ships. He built ships. My dad's dad was an Army Air Force officer during World War II, imagining himself a romantic flyer but they kept him on the ground. Somewhere in that service he acquired a knack with titanium and later worked as an engineer for the Apollo Project.

My dad, and my wife's dad, both served honorably in the U.S. military, and had their university educations paid for by it. My dad was a very nearsighted Radar O'Reilly sort, and my wife's dad was a Navy medic and Geiger counter waving atomic testing guinea pig assigned to the Marines. No guns required.

I'm not gonna knock Prince.