If you watched the video about Stephen Allwine (Web of Lies: The murder of Amy Allwine) that was posted earlier you would see mentioned several times that the courtroom was filled up almost every day with United Church of God members who were there to support Stephen during his murder trial. You will also hear the prosecutors surprised by the show of force that showed up every day.Many years earlier than this, United Church of God members showed up in force at another trial for a stalker that was harassing COG women. They too showed up to support the stalker and essentially were blaming the victims as the cause of the problem and not the stalker.
Several years ago, in Bluefield WV, a UCG woman who was a bank manager, embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars from the bank she worked at. She essentially stole the life savings of hundreds of elderly people and bank account holders. She bought her husband numerous motorcycles and cars, they had a fancy house. They built a permanent church building for her local UCG congregation and even passed out envelopes prior tot he Feast each year with money in them to help the less fortunate UCG members. UCG members flocked to her trial and supported her like she did no wrong.
This does not include some of the other court trials that I have heard mentioned over the years where UCG members were on trial and regular member supported them, regardless of their crimes.
Why are they so supportive?