A guy who runs a website which contains not much more than quotes from Jehovah’s Witnesses materials is being sued by the church:
Legal proceedings before the Ontario Superior Court were initiated on September 8, 2005 by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania (hereinafter WTBTS), the legal corporation used by Jehovah’s Witnesses for their publishing operations, against Peter Mosier, owner and operator of the website located at http://quotes.watchtower.ca.
The law suit seeks monetary punitive damages and a court ordered silencing of the aforementioned website, which does nothing more than provide a well researched and topically organized collection of interesting and esoteric quotations from more than one hundred years of religious literature published by Jehovah’s Witnesses. Why would WTBTS leadership want to shut down a web site that did nothing more than quote from their own religious literature?
The very nature of these quotations is embarrassing to them, as they surprisingly admit in their court filing under paragraph 31, "The Defendant’s main purpose in operating the website is… to try to embarrass the Plaintiffs by quoting selectively from some of the Religious Works…"
From their own printed words the web site documents years of their failed prophecies, constantly changing Bible chronology, flip-flopping doctrinal changes, bizarre medical advice, and dogmatic teachings that many consider physically and emotionally harmful. Also included are Witness quotations demonizing the Internet, the Media, the United Nations, and other non-Witness entities as ‘tools of the Devil.’ Obviously, the WTBTS would rather these embarrassing writings be quietly ignored or entirely forgotten, and they are willing to resort to legal action to make it so.
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