The Law of Love, and its limits, added later.
The doctrine as first stated had almost no boundaries. The group forbade adult sexual contact with minors in 1986 and set out rules in a charter in 1995; the interval is the whole of the record against it.
As first stated the Law of Love had almost no boundaries, and Berg's letters of the 1970s and early 1980s sanctioned sexual contact between adults and children as an expression of it. The group prohibited adult–minor sexual contact in 1986, made it an excommunicable offence, and published a formal charter of rules in 1995 after the English High Court judgment required a repudiation of Berg's teaching on the subject. The doctrine that remains — love as the governing principle, with explicit limits attached — is the same doctrine with the limits written on afterwards, and the group's own account of that interval is the closest thing it has to a confession.
Sexual contact between an adult and a minor is an excommunicable offence.
The Family, statement of 1986 and Charter of 1995 (rendered)The prohibition post-dates the letters of the 1970s and early 1980s that had sanctioned such contact.
The same ground, other faiths
claims that share this one's ideasSign in to open the first thread. Everything here is attributed.