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The Apostate // Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology

Title: The Apostate // Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology
Date: Monday, 14 February 2011
Publisher: New Yorker
Author: Lawrence Wright
Main source: newyorker.com
Alternate and/or complementary: Primary Sources: L. Ron Hubbard Leaves the Navy, guardian.co.uk
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On August 19, 2009, Tommy Davis, the chief spokesperson for the Church of Scientology International, received a letter from the film director and screenwriter Paul Haggis. “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,” Haggis wrote. Before the 2008 elections, a staff member at Scientology’s San Diego church had signed its name to an online petition supporting Proposition 8, which asserted that ... [Read the rest at newyorker.com]