Judge Gillie pondered, then punctuated his decision with one emphatic whack of the gavel. "This court awards Una McManus one million dollars in compensatory damages and one-half million dollars in punitive damages against the Children of God religious cult and its leader, David Brandt Berg, also known as Moses David, for alienation of her husband’s affection and for the misrepresentation of their ideals."

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WE CAN RENOUNCE LIT, BUT NOT DOCTRINES CONTAINED IN THE LIT
Someone suggested that we say, "These radical far out doctrines from the past, we no longer espouse them". Yes, well, I don’t have any quarrel with that either. What I had even said was that we're going to drop these practices. You see, that could be interpreted several different ways. We can just drop them from our practice, but not from our heart. You may say that's a question of semantics also, but I don't think so. It can be, of course, to the hearer, but I want to speak the truth. And I know at the same time we have to give them something that they will be able to agree with or that will seem to clear us.

I could easily say, "We renounce our lit", & that's abandon, surrender, give up etc. You'll see that "renounce" means to abandon, surrender, give up, forsake. I can renounce the lit & I can say that we've renounced the lit, so I don't have any problem with that. And Dad [David Berg], I think, in the child abuse tract--which, by the way, was very good, it's tremendous, & it's still just as good as ever--I think he said he renounced the lit too. Well, we can easily renounce the lit, but renouncing the doctrine or renouncing our beliefs that are contained in the lit, we don't, & we can't. You could say that if you say you renounce your lit, the public figures you've renounced your doctrine, at least some of them might. Of course our enemies, I think they know us better than that.

Whatever they interpret it as, that's one thing, but I want to say the truth. I don't want to lie to them, especially in something as important as denying our beliefs, which aren't just Family or Children of God beliefs, as I discussed with Pipi [Sara Davidito] last night.--They're Godly, Scriptural, Biblical doctrines, & in denying them, we're denying the Lord. So I can easily say I renounce my literature, that's one thing, but to say, "I renounce these doctrines & these beliefs..." I can even say "I renounce these practices," but to say, "I renounce these doctrines, I renounce these beliefs, I can't do that. And I think it's important. What's in a name? What's in words? I want to be truthful, & I think it's important to be truthful. Like Dad has said, we don't have to tell them the whole truth, we can let them interpret it any way they want, but we need to be truthful & we can't deny our faith.