Theos-Talk Archives (December 2002 Message tt00148)

--- In theos-talk@y..., "Jerry Hejka-Ekins" <jjhe@c...> wrote:
> Of course, C.W. Leadbeater is ultimately responsible for his own
> actions. On the other hand, did the leadership (and those members 
who
> were involved) have some culpability (to the TS and its membership)
> regarding how they handled the situation CWL had created? 

I think they showed poor judgement and moral cowardice by not kicking 
his ass out when they found out what he was. That is a failing of 
numerous organizations in the same position, most notably the RC 
church, which has covered up hundreds of cases of child molestation 
by priests, secretly paid billions in hush money, and winked at 
carnal liaisons between the offending priests and their homo 
bishops. In the case of the TS they dealt with only one major 
offender and got caught off guard. Their case is more forgivable 
than that of the RCs, which has had a homo priesthood for centuries 
and which has known this problem would come to a boil eventually. 
They had plenty of time to have a high level pow wow and decide it 
was in the best interest of the institition to put their bejeweled 
feet down on the problem. I can understand great courage and moral 
conviction is required by rhe leaders at a time like that. It is 
nonetheless true that they did not have either of those qualities.