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Paul Haggis, best known for his Oscar-winning movies, “Million Dollar Baby” and “Crash,” left the Church of Scientology after being a member for 35 years, citing many disappointments as his reasons for resigning. His issue with the church first stemmed from his appall over the support that the San Diego branch gave Proposition 8, the amendment that took away marriage rights from gay couples in California. Haggis sent a letter, displayed in the Los Angeles Times report, to Tommy Davis, head of the Church of Scientology’s Celebrity Centre International, elaborating on his grievances. “As you know, for ten months now I have been writing to ask you to make a public statement denouncing the actions of the Church of Scientology of San Diego,” the letter begins. Haggis went on to write “Their public sponsorship of Proposition 8, a hate filled legislation that succeeded in taking away the civil rights of gay and lesbian citizens of California—rights that were granted them by the Supreme Court ...

A Paris court convicted the Church of Scientology of fraud and fined it more than euro600,000 ($900,000) on Tuesday but stopped short of banning the group as prosecutors had demanded. The court convicted the Church of Scientology's French office, its library and six of its leaders of organized fraud. Investigators said the group pressured members into paying large sums of money for questionable financial gain and used "commercial harassment" against recruits. The original complaint in the case dates back more than a decade, when a young woman said she took out loans and spent the equivalent of euro21,000 on books, courses and "purification packages" after being recruited in 1998. When she sought reimbursement and to leave the group, its leadership refused. She was among three eventual plaintiffs. Olivier Morice, lawyer for civil parties in the case, said the verdict was "historic" because it was the first time in France that the Church of Scientology h...

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Of course it is not a surprise Scientologists are very anti-gay. Especially with the questionable circumstances surrounding the death of L. Ron Hubbard's gay son. The video documents events outside of a Scientology building in Toronto between the group Anonymous and Scientologists, during gay pride events this year. SCIENTOLOGY PROMOTES HATRED AND VIOLENCE AT GAY PRIDE TORONTO - Anonymous from STOPCanadianHATEGROUP on Vimeo .

by Dr. Lilly von Marcab IndyBay As cities around the world prepare for their annual Pride celebrations, it is worth considering the "Church" of Scientology's official position on gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and queer people (LGBTQ). According to Scientology, such "perverts" should either be quarantined and institutionalized, or go through extensive Scientology "processing" until once again they have value as human beings. The cult's founder, science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, felt LGBTQ people were malicious, untrustworthy and incredibly dangerous to society. In his follow-up book, "Science of Survival," he establishes a "tone scale," ranging from -3 to +4, for classifying categories of people and evaluating human behavior. "Perverts," as he classified LGBTQ people, fall at 1.1 on Hubbard's scale. He considered them to be extremely dangerous to society. full article