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...Thomas Balch, director of the Department of Medical Ethics for the National Right to Life Committee, agreed that euthanasia discriminates against disabled persons...
...Balch, who said he is agnostic, said that religion has nothing to do with his anti-euthanasia stance...
...known as the Two)--may be trying to establish himself as a leader of the remnant. Some survivors, however, view Greenberg as an Anti-Do because he once argued that believers had to become independent of the Two to reach the "Level Above Human." According to Montana sociologist Robert Balch, when Bo and Peep, as the founders then called themselves, went into hiding amid an early crisis, a disciple named Aaron led a faction that abetted beer drinking, pot smoking and sex--all activities disapproved of by Applewhite and Nettles. Bo and Peep reappeared to scold their flock...
...1970s Montana sociologist Robert Balch infiltrated the group and traveled with them through California and Arizona for two months. During the 1970s, the cult suffered from a dramatic attrition rate, until Applewhite instituted what Balch describes as an "intense regimentation." Do had recruits follow detailed schedules--waking for prayer at precise times, taking vitamins at, say, 7:22 p.m., consuming yeast rolls and liquid protein--and had them do drills, mental and physical, to prepare the flock for outer space. According to a man named Michael, who was with the cult from 1975 to 1988, recruits experimented with their sleeping...
...time, at least, the regimen worked wonders on the dropout rate and also enhanced the group's isolation and secrecy. Balch kept tabs on the group until 1982; in 1994 nine cultists walked through his office door in Missoula, Montana, to tell him the 200 or so members that he knew existed in the 1970s had become a band of 24. Nettles, he learned, had died of cancer in 1985. They had also grown dramatically more apocalyptic in their beliefs...