Leo Greenlees
Governing Body member Leo K. Greenlees was forced to resign
and leave Bethel in late 1984. He entered the Toronto, Canada
Bethel in 1936, eventually
becoming treasurer of the
Canadian branch and of the IBSA of Canada. In 1964 he went to
Brooklyn Bethel, and in 1965 was elected as a director of the
Society's New York corporation.
As a director Greenlees
automatically became a
"governing body" member when
that body was formally instituted in 1971. He often spoke at Gilead
graduations, and was the
concluding speaker for the day at the Watchtower Centennial
business meeting at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on October 6, 1984.
A 1982 Watchtower mentions him as being on the Teaching Committee of the Governing
Body. Greenlees' last mention in Watchtower publications is in the
December 1, 1984 Watchtower
where he is said to have passed out diplomas at the September
Gilead graduation. In late 1984, Greenlees was allegedly convicted by the rest of the Governing Body of molesting a
ten year old boy. The boy's parents had complained to the
Society and it took action.
Greenlees was a friend of the family and often visited them.
After leaving Bethel Greenlees served as a Special Pioneer and
eventually an elder in the
"Downtown" congregation in
New Orleans, Louisiana. He died in the late 1980s. Interestingly, the boy who Greenlees molested
applied for Bethel service a few years later, around 1991, and was rejected. Watchtower leaders apparently feared that
other Bethelites would tell him the 'rumors' about Greenlees, not
knowing that he was Greenlees' victim, and cause the young man
to know that justice had not been done. He might then have confirmed the rumors

Percy Chapman

Percy Chapman was another member of Bethel accused of
being homosexual. It was alleged that Chapman was a one-time lover of GB member Leo
Greenlees. In 1959, under hint of homosexual scandal, Knorr went
to Canada to replace Chapman, who was the Canadian Branch
overseer. Knorr demoted
Chapman to janitor, but let him remain at Toronto Bethel--on condition he marry. According to
Larry D., a Toronto former JW,

"Percy ... was totally anti-marriage and he made sure that none of
the "Bethel boys" even
contemplated the subject ...."

Larry described the Bethel boys of the 1950s.

"They were all young and handsome, hand-picked by Percy Chapman; there
was even an elite group known as 'Percy's boys' who would accompany him to expensive
restaurants and bars ... at the time, Bethel was on Irwin Avenue in the center of the gay district of Toronto. There was even a Kingdom Hall above 'The Parkside,' one of Toronto's few
gay bars in the fifties and
sixties." After Chapman's
disgrace, Larry, who personally knew Greenlees, wrote,

"Poor Leo Greenlees, Percy's close
companion for three decades ...
had to find himself a new
roommate. ... He was very open about his homosexuality to those
few good-looking young
brothers .... He would bring along another Bethel boy, Lorne Bridle,
who was very good looking and charming."

Regardless of his
dubious relationship with
Chapman, Greenlees became Treasurer of WTB&TS and one of
the Governing Body. According to Larry, "He managed to escape the
witch hunt at Brooklyn Bethel in the early seventies when dozens
of Bethel boys were
disfellowshipped after learning of their midnight trysts in the sauna in Brooklyn Bethel."

Editors note: Although this may not be concrete proof, it is with
firm conviction that i print this article. Thanks to my sources. we can
be sure that this was common knowledge. Before you cast aside
this article, please remember what the Watchtower of January
1st, 1986 said:

"Shocking as it is, even some who have been prominent in
Jehovah's organization have succumbed to immoral practices,
including homosexuality, wife swapping, and child molesting"

An interesting point to consider :In March 1969 sixty homosexuals left the world headquarters
called Bethel in Brooklyn but then Watchtower President Nathan
Knorr demanded that this also be covered up.

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