Anderson Cooper is launching a weeklong series about Scientology starting Monday, covering many of the allegations against the controversial religion.
Anderson Cooper 360, the CNN anchor’s nightly news show, is looking at Scientology’s “history of violence,†especially allegations that leader – and Tom Cruise best friend – David Miscavige has personally physically abused his followers.
Scientology spokesman Tommy Davis, son of actress Anne Archer, is interviewed by Cooper and claims that while there has been violence committed against members in the elite Sea Organization, the guilty offenders are those very people now making allegations against Miscavige.
Scientology is increasingly coming under attack by top-ranking members who’ve left the organization. Interestingly, none of the top Hollywood stars who support Scientology, including Cruise, John Travolta, Jenna Elfman and Kirstie Alley, have commented.
What do you think of Scientology and will you be watching the Anderson Cooper weeklong series? It’s sure to enlighten us a little more into what exactly is happening in Scientology right now.
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Award winning Writer and Director, Paul Haggis, has walked away from the Church of Scientology, after being a devout follower for 35 years.
Haggis left the cult-like religion after he wrote a letter to its spokesman, Tommy Davis, for its support of Proposition 8. The letter asked Davis to denounce the religion’s support of the anti-gay marriage legislation. To which, Haggis said that Davis said he would, but never lived up to his promise.
When Davis declined to publish a letter to that effect, Haggis said, “Silence is consent, Tommy. I refuse to consent.”
He fired off a letter to Davis that said he could no longer sit back and watch as the religion supported the abuse of any group’s civil rights.
He said:
But I reached a point several weeks ago where I no longer knew what to think. You had allowed our name to be allied with the worst elements of the Christian Right. In order to contain a potential “PR flap†you allowed our sponsorship of Proposition 8 to stand. Despite all the church’s words about promoting freedom and human rights, its name is now in the public record alongside those who promote bigotry and intolerance, homophobia and fear.
He also touched on the religion’s use of their policy of disconnect, when a person leaves their group. He said that even though Davis said that no such policy existed, it happened to his wife, recently. She was told that once her parents left the religion, that she should disconnect contact from them, to which she did.
He added, “For a year and a half, despite her protestations, my wife did not speak to her parents and they had limited access to their grandchild. It was a terrible time. That’s not ancient history, Tommy. It was a year ago.”
Read the entire letter here.
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