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Oct 28, 2009
Spokesman: Scientologists aren’t anti-gay // ‘Crash’ director Paul Haggis is publicly denouncing group — MSNBC
Type: Press
Author(s):
Courtney Hazlett Source:
MSNBC The Church of Scientology is responding to claims that the religion is anti-gay, an allegation made by “Crash” director Paul Haggis, who is publicly denouncing the church’s practices. “I don’t want any misunderstanding,” said Tommy Davis, a spokesperson for Scientology. “The church supports civil rights for everybody, regardless of sexual orientation, race, color or creed. We are a minority, too; we understand what it’s like to be persecuted, so to the extent that anything prohibits or inhibits on civil rights, we ...
Oct 27, 2009
Scientology's new face — The Daily Beast
Type: Press
Author(s):
Kim Masters Source:
The Daily Beast In his first detailed interview since walking off Nightline last week, church spokesman Tommy Davis talks to Kim Masters about Monday's startling public defection by Paul Haggis, addresses drug allegations—and explains his relationship with Tom Cruise. Plus, his former colleague speaks out. Tommy Davis has been busy lately. In the past week, the spokesman for the Church of Scientology tore off his lapel microphone and stormed out of an interview when Nightline correspondent Martin Bashir tried to question him about whether ...
Oct 26, 2009
'Crash' director Paul Haggis quits Scientology — Associated Press
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jake Coyle Source:
Associated Press "Crash" director Paul Haggis has severed his ties with the Church of Scientology, in part because of what he alleged as the organization's stance against gay marriage. Haggis wrote a letter addressed to Tommy Davis, the head of Scientology's Celebrity Centre. In it, Haggis said he was disappointed by the church's tacit denial of gay rights in the debate over California's gay marriage ban. The 56-year-old Haggis, who won an Oscar in 2005 for co-writing "Crash," said he was quitting the ...
Oct 26, 2009
Scientology's no good, very bad week — Salon
Type: Press
Author(s):
Mary Elizabeth Williams Source:
Salon Oscar-winner Paul Haggis breaks with the church. Leader Tommy Davis storms off "Nightline." Whither Tom Cruise? When Paul Haggis, the writer of "Million Dollar Baby" and "Crash," kicked his faith to the curb after 35 years, he did so as only an Oscar-winning scribe could: with a badass screed. His resignation letter, dated Aug. 19, emerged on ex-Scientologist Mark Rathburn's blog yesterday and promptly went viral. In his letter, Haggis explains, "for ten months now I have been writing to ask ...
Oct 25, 2009
'Crash' director Paul Haggis ditches Scientology — Village Voice
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tony Ortega Source:
Village Voice "I am only ashamed that I waited this many months to act. I hereby resign my membership in the Church of Scientology." Over the past few days, a remarkable letter was published in four parts at the blog of Marty Rathbun, a former high-level Scientology official who has left the church and now criticizes Scientology's leader, David Miscavige. In the letter, written to Scientology's current national spokesman, Tommy Davis, 'Crash' director Paul Haggis explains why he is leaving Scientology after 35 ...
Sep 27, 2009
United for a Hate Free San Diego Summit — XenuTV
Nov 6, 2008
Finger pointing begins in California’s Proposition 8 Ban, Scientology gets thrown in the mix — Glosslip
Type: Blog
Author(s):
Dawn Olsen Source:
Glosslip [Embedded video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sJucvqh0Q8 .] For all that we achieved on the road to equality with Tuesday's election results, some bigotry remains unaddressed. There were several anti-gay marriage measures on ballots across the country for Americans to decide on, but none as polarizing as that of California's Proposition 8, which sought to reverse a previous ruling allowing gay marriage in that state. While state officials are still counting the votes, it would seem that the ban on gay marriage has passed, and also ...
May 27, 2008
Church of Scientology Buys 64,000 Square Feet in La Mesa for $9.3M — San Diego Business JournalMore: rickross.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Ned Randolph Source:
San Diego Business Journal The San Diego chapter of the controversial Church of Scientology is moving its focus to La Mesa with the May 21 purchase of a Coleman College campus at 7380 Parkway Drive. The Church of Scientology’s San Diego offices are located at 1330 Fourth Ave. between A and Ash streets. The church purchased the new site for $9.3 million. The two buildings, which are 53,400 square feet and 11,000 square feet, will be used as an educational campus, said the broker on ...
May 26, 2006
Scientologist speaks out — San Diego 6 (XETV-TV)
Apr 15, 1990
Hubbard hot-author status called illusion — San Diego Union-TribuneMore: scientology-lies.com , link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Mike McIntyre Source:
San Diego Union-Tribune In 1981, St. Martin's Press was offered a sure thing. L. Ron Hubbard, the pulp writer turned religious leader, had written his first science-fiction novel in more than 30 years. If St. Martin's published it, Hubbard aides promised the firm, subsidiary organizations of Hubbard's Church of Scientology would buy at least 15,000 copies. "Battlefield Earth," priced at $24.95, was released the next year in hardcover, rare for a science-fiction title. Despite mixed reviews, the book quickly sold 120,000 copies — enough ...
Apr 15, 1990
Search for information followed long, winding trail — San Diego Union-TribuneMore: link
Type: Press
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San Diego Union-Tribune The San Diego Union first asked for an interview with Bridge Publications in December 1989. The request was referred to the L. Ron Hubbard Office of Public Relations, a Church of Scientology organization in Los Angeles. Several times throughout January, Union reporter Mike McIntyre contacted the L Ron Hubbard Office of Public Relations to request an interview with Bridge personnel. Each time, L. Ron Hubbard spokeswoman Sharyn Runyon said that a decision had not been made. Runyon later asked McIntyre to ...
Apr 27, 1989
Narconon-Chilocco drug treatment plant may be part of notorious religious cult — Newkirk Herald Journal (Oklahoma)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Robert W. Lobsinger Source:
Newkirk Herald Journal (Oklahoma) NEWKIRK, OK – A proposed drug treatment and rehabilitation center which could be in operation on Indian land at the former Chilocco Indian School north of Newkirk by June 15th may be part of a notorious religious cult. Narconon was approved for a 75-bed facility by the State Health Planning Commission in January of this year as part of The Chilocco Development Authority. The projected cost is $400,000 for renovation and the five Indian tribes involved are projected to receive $16,000,000 ...
May 20, 1985
Certificate of amendment of articles of incorporation [of Church of Scientology Western United States] (Filed May 21, 1985)
Jul 7, 1982
Restated articles of incorporation of Church of Scientology of San Diego (Filed Jul. 13, 1982)
Sep 13, 1977
Clergy protests 'spying' upon religious groups — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
John Dart Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) One hundred ministers, priests and rabbis in the San Diego area Monday presented a petition to a San Diego newspaper, declaring that "spying or deceitfully obtaining membership in a religious organization is unethical" and violates religious freedom. The petition, launched by the Church of Scientology of San Diego, was prompted by a two-part series on Scientology last month in the San Diego Union by reporter Leigh Fenly. Two Scientologists filed a $10,000 invasion-of-privacy suit in San Diego Superior Court Aug. 9, ...
Aug 12, 1977
San Diego paper sued for $10,000 // Church of Scientology members seek to stop articles not yet published — Los Angeles Times (California)More: pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Type: Press
Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) SAN DIEGO — Two Church of Scientology members Thursday sued the San Diego Union for more than $10,000, alleging two articles that have not yet been published were an invasion of privacy. Union Acting Editor Peter Kaye described the lawsuit as "harassment aimed at preventing the paper from printing the stories." He said church leaders had offered to try to stop the lawsuit if the newspaper would kill the articles. The civil suit was filed in San Diego Superior Court by ...
Apr 8, 1971
Articles of incorporation of Church of Scientology of La Jolla (Filed Apr. 13, 1971)
Jensen Family Foundation: Form 990 filings
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