Are Jehovah Witnesses allowed to knock on my door?

They have the right to knock. It is your right to tell them to go away. I was raised a Jehovah’s Witness and became a civil rights lawyer. In the early 1900s, Witnesses challenged many local ordinances that criminalized or penalized knocking on doors.

How do Jehovah Witnesses stop knocking?

If they do come to the door, don’t talk with them. Give them a polite “I’m not interested” and then go into broken record mode and repeat it until they give up. Do not answer their questions, do no engage in conversation. Shut them down 100\% and don’t talk to them.

Do Jehovah’s Witnesses discourage college?

Morris makes it very clear that the Watchtower organization doesn’t discourage education, but rather secular education. “If parents and young ones are motivated to pursue divine education,” Morris says, “the quest for higher secular education becomes less and less of an issue.”

Can you tell a Jehovah Witness happy birthday?

The best etiquette is not wishing Jehovah’s Witnesses a happy birthday at all. Really, if you know it’s the day of our birth just keep that wish to yourself because it honestly means nothing to us. It’s just another day to us.

Should Jehovah’s Witnesses Hang ‘no soliciting’ signs at their homes?

“Instead of hanging ‘no soliciting,’ if they hung a ‘no trespassing’ sign, there would be no argument,” he said. Durchslag said Jehovah’s Witnesses have won several court cases defending their rights, but the cases dealt with laws restricting solicitation, not residences with “no soliciting” signs.

Are Jehovah’s Witnesses soliciting money for their spiel?

However, Mel Durchslag, an attorney representing the American Civil Liberties Union, said he’s not certain that the Jehovah’s Witnesses were not soliciting. “I’m skeptical about that claim,” he said. “It’s probably true. They’re not asking anything in return for their spiel.”

Are Jehovah’s Witnesses allowed to go door-to-door in?

They are not governed by solicitation law, but you can get on a no call list. A about Jehovah’s Witnesses members going door-to-door in has generated a lot of talk, including debate about the law concerning such activity. So let’s set the record straight. First, an explanation about the police blotter itself.

Can you knock on doors with ‘no soliciting’ signs?

The point wasn’t so much that they were not allowed to knock on doors with “no soliciting” signs, but that they should honor the sign in this particular case because they were clearly told they were not wanted at the house.