I recently read "The Girl Who Wouldn't" for the first time, and want to offer my commentary about it. I'd be interested in reading the thoughts of other ex-fam members who have read it as well. I don't know if this Mo letter will ever be posted on exfamily.org, but if it is, I hope any commentary that accompanies it will strongly repudiate its message. To do otherwise would be a slap in the face of every victim of this cult.
I was in the COG for four years, but I'm thankful I left in early 1974, which was a few years before the group went into their moral tailspin. I've tried to imagine what horrible things Tomi and other female members were subjected to as a result of this letter. It makes my blood boil to think about it, and I wish Berg were still alive so I could do to him what I would do to a rabid dog.
While the primary focus of this ML was to tell Tomi and all other family females that they should submit to the sexual advances of lesbian members, it had a much broader impact. Berg was warning the family females that they had better submit to whatever sexual demands were placed upon them. As I understand from survivors accounts, it was open-season on the women, and the sexual predators, (both gay and straight) had a field day.
This letter was nothing less than the green light for wide-scale sexual coercion in the fam. It is so outrageous that the family's official web site has the unmitigated gall to display their "fundamental Family Rules." In this document, they falsely assure the world that sexual coercion will not be tolerated, and that all sexual activities are to be mutually consensual.
Legally speaking, a minor cannot give consent, so mutually consensual sex between minors and adults or even between minors is illegal in most civilized countries. The fam can't hide behind the "Law of Love" in a court of law.
Religiously speaking, if the family truly believed that all sexual coercion is an excommunicable offense, they would have denounced Berg as a false prophet, since he asserted that such messages came directly from God. Their refusal to do so speaks volumes. Not only have they not denounced Berg and his false teachings, but they continue to practice them.
Berg and his fellow perpetrators will eventually have their day in court. They won't be able to plead the 5th in this court, and their evil deeds will be completely exposed. The creator of the universe will drag them before His judgement seat, and the Lamb's book will be opened. Berg's name will not be found in it, and he will be cast into hell.
I am reminded of the words of Christ, who said, "It would be better for you to have a millstone put around your neck and be cast into the sea, rather than to offend one of these little ones." The little ones will be present at Berg's trial, and will bear witness of his crimes. Justice will finally be served, and as Revelation chapter 14 verse 11 describes it, "And the smoke of their torment asendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night..."