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Celebrity Jehovah’s Witnesses “Disfellowshipped”

by Jason Freeman
Filed under: Entertainment, National News
Thu. December 21, 2006  2:30:29 PM

Public displays of gay causes ousting of Nemesis Rising

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Chicago, IL — News of disenfranchisement was brought to the attention of the Logo cable network's popular reality TV personalities, Jacob and Joshua Miller. The LGBT cable network stars of Jacob and Joshua: Nemesis Rising were informed December 20, 2006, that a recent meeting held by their hometown Kalispell, Montana Jehovah's Witnesses chapter had announced their official "disfellowship," or excommunication, from the faith.

"According to Jehovah's Witness doctrine, being 'disfellowshipped' means that we have been found guilty of unrepentant gross misconduct. Our immediate family is to have limited or no contact with us. All other practicing Jehovah's Witnesses around the world are to never speak with us again," the Miller brothers say of the decision.

The decision to proscribe the brothers came based on their "homosexuality and involvement in their realty show."

The Miller brothers add, "We find it ironic that a religion whose members are asked to knock on the doors of strangers with a message of acceptance of paradise on Earth will not accept two of its own children for who they really are. Our wish for them is one of tolerance and understanding and we send to them a message of peace and love."

Jacob and Joshua: Nemesis Rising airs Monday nights on Logo, and follows the gay identical twins in Los Angeles trying to become stars in the pop music industry.

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Carla on Friday, 8/31/2007

Do you have sex with each other?



gabriela on Friday, 9/28/2007

i was a jehova witness and i got disfellowshipped for having sex i think thats dumd but oh well i hate that religion



ANA on Monday, 10/1/2007

I WAS A JEHOVA WITNESSS SINCE TTHE AGE OF 3 I WAS RAISE AND THEN I MET A GUY WHO I FELT IN LOVE WITH BUT ONE OF MY SUPPOSBLY FRIEND TOLD ON ME AND I CONFESE THAT I HAD SEX WITH HIM I GOT DISFELLOWSHIPPED AND THE BROTHERS MAD STUPID COMMENTS THAT MY BOYFRIEND WOULD NEVER CHANGE. I STILL HAVEN'T BEEN ANNOUNCED UNTIL THIS FRIDAY BUT THEY SAID NOBODY KNOWS BUT THEIR WIFES HAVE IGNORE ME. I THOUGHT THEY WERE SUPPOSE TO KEEP THAT IN THE LOW. THEIR A FAKE RELIGION INSTEAD OF HELPING YOU THEY MAKE IT SEEM TO THAT PERSON ITS A HIT IT AND QUIT THING. THEY MAKE THE PERSON FEEL CRUMMY BY LETTING THE CHURCH KNOW THATS REALLY DISRESPECTFUL. THERE IS ALOT OF TWO FACES IN THEIR, BUT DON'T WORRY YOU GUYS ARE CLEAN KNOW AND YOUR CONCIENCE IS FINE. WE HAVE NOTHING TO HID SO THE CONGREGAION DOESN'T TALK TO US IT'S OK. ONLY GOD COULD JUDGE US WERE NOT PERFECT BEING GAY IS NATRUAL AS LONG YOU GUYS ARE HAPPY.



true comment on Thursday, 2/7/2008

The tent isnt to make you not come back but to change your ways,just like a parent that has laws and rules to fellow and we are punished for our bad ways,its the same differance.



not a JW!! on Wednesday, 3/5/2008

JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES ARE A CULT!!!!!! THEY ARE ABSOLUTELY NOT A RELIGION IN ANY WAY.



LaTina Kaigler on Saturday, 4/5/2008

Jehovah Witnesses are not a cult and nothing like it. We're people who follow the rules of the bible and if Jehovah God say no fornication than as simple as that NO FORNICATION!!! You being attracted to the same sex isnt the sin. Having sex with the same sex is the sin. YALL NEED TO REPENT AND YOU WILL BE FORGIVEN. Hate us if that makes you sleep at night but it the truth and we will make it known



Steve J on Wednesday, 4/9/2008

It's amazing how a lack of correct information will make people come to wrong conclusions. The fact is this: the only people that are disfellowshipped as Jehovah's Witnesses are ones who have WILLINGLY chosen to get baptized as such. No one is made to do this, and it is not a meaningless ceremony done to babies. In fact, each person who chooses to be baptized is questioned so as to see that they are in agreement with the scriptual guidelines that Jesus and the Apostles laid out in regards to morality and dedication to Jehovah God. I feel badly for these two guys as I do for anyone who has been disfellowshipped. But the fact is, for this to of happened, they must of went through the act of dedication to Jehovah and baptism. They must of had some inclination that they didn't want to live their lives according to Bible standards at the time of their baptism. If they had not been baptized, no announcement would ever have been made. Oh, and LaTina who posted above, I think your heart's in the right place, but "Yall need to repent and you will be forgiven" is a little untactful and is not going to soften many hearts.



Serious Derious Bagelt on Monday, 5/5/2008

Steven J, you bring up some very good points. I have one question, is it strictly the Bible standards or the standards explicitly written the Watchtower publication that Jehovah's Witnesses must adhere to?

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