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Originally Posted by Terry
Yes it was Ohio.
Seemingly brothers of character were compromised and their integrity sacrificed. Very sad and disappointing. Since brother Lee's passing in 1997, I have longed there would be a turn in BP, RK ,etc. As their speaking is a driving influence throughout the recovery.
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Here is a summary of what I know to be true:
1. One sister that was molested by PL was sent to live in Houston. As a result it is sure that both RG and BP were well aware of PL being a sexual predator.
2. Houston began printing for the LSM at least a full year before the Irving construction began, if not more. I served the entire time that LSM was printing in Houston under RG. During that time RG was very strict that there not be even the appearance of evil. As a result no sister could be alone with a brother in any room. This was made abundantly clear and was repeated over and over again.
3. While in Irving I was working on the construction of the Irving hall and I was one of 12 brothers chosen to go with RG to "have fellowship" with PL when he visited the construction site. The "fellowship" involved all of us sitting around a large table at a very fancy Chinese restaurant watching PL eat Lobster by himself. At the time I felt it had been the biggest waste of my time and I also was repulsed by PL, even though this was the only time I had ever met him and had never heard anything negative about him prior to this. I was amazed that RG would speak glowingly of what to me was obviously a lascivious man (if anything RG had always appeared to be an ascetic to me). As a result I think it is safe to say that from first hand experience I know that RG and BP were in close fellowship with both WL and PL. (Later I realized that for PL to expense this lunch which probably cost him around $100 he needed the rest of us so that he could call it “fellowship”, also if the bill were divided 14 ways it would not stand out. Suffice it to say that our lunch fellowships while working in Irving never included lobster at fancy Chinese restaurants.)
4. Based on JI account of his meeting with RG and BP it has always struck me as very strange that they would react putting their hands to their ears, running out of the room and saying "that is a local matter". How do you know it is a local matter until you have heard the fellowship? How do they both act in unison? It just seemed to me from the account that JI gave that they both knew exactly what was going to be fellowshipped beforehand and had agreed together how they would react. Unless you think the sister contacted them it could only mean that WL and PL had talked to them prior to the meeting.
5. At the time of construction it was always presented that LSM was now going to have two centers in the US. But in hindsight I wonder how much financial sense such an investment made? However, if you factor in the idea that WL and PL had invested in Irving as a “worst case” plan then it does make more sense. Surely they couldn’t have anticipated how it ultimately turned out.
6. KR is a Phd and has a very good education, I spent several years with him at Rice. I don’t believe it is realistic to assume that his scholarship is really as sloppy as it would have to be for the whitewash he worked on to have been innocent. Either he is a fool or was involved in a coverup. Based on my experience I would be much more inclined to believe that KR felt the saints were foolish enough that he could pull off the whitewash than to believe that this book accurately depicts his scholarship. Why would he do that, well, his major was perfectly aligned with working on a translation of the Bible. There are not many jobs in that area and if this is what it would take to get this job, as someone who spent several years with him in Houston, I am sorry to say that I would not put it past him.
7. I see absolutely no basis for EM to be sent to Anaheim at a time of serious upheaval other than that he was a classic yes man, and would rubber stamp anything he was told to. The only reason for EM to be chosen for this role is that BP and RG chose him, there is no other explanation I can see. His apology to PL is absolutely repugnant.
8. RG and BP engineered a written consecration to the ministry by the elders.
The only way I can put these 8 facts together is to conclude that RG and BP stabbed JI in the back in order to take charge of the LSM. As much as we talk about WL and PL on this site I can not find any other explanation than these two were complicit.