Scientologist Suggests Barack Obama, Condi Rice and Al Sharpton Better Suited Sweeping Offices, Than Running For Them
Just when you think the Church of Scientology couldn't get any more bizarre, they go and do something like this.
The article from today's NYDN's Gategrasher quotes best-selling author (and next week's Glosslip Radio guest) Ian Halperin from his upcoming "undercover" expose on the Church of Scientology. From Ben Widdiecombe's article:
Have you been wondering who Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, who died in 1986, would vote for to be President?Investigative journalist Ian Halperin has. The best-selling author is about to publish "Hollywood Undercover," his exposé of the controversial church. But when he asked a Scientology recruiter in Los Angeles the question, he received the most offensive response imaginable.
"He said, 'I can tell you who shouldn't be President - Barack Obama, Condoleezza Rice and the Rev. Al Sharpton. They should not be allowed to run for office, they should be sweeping the office."
Clearly we can imagine the Church's response to this story will go something like "The views expressed by one radical member of the church in no way reflect the views of the Church itself. The Church embraces people of all ethnic and racial backgrounds are is proud of it's multi-rational membership." Or some such wishy-washy backtracking nonsense.
And then they will likely hire some Scientology goon to shadow whoever made that statement and that person will POOF! vanish into thin air. Think I am kidding? Don't be too sure. I have written several stories about Scientology over the years and not so coincidentally, have been contacted by members of the Church more than once, who were quite savvy about where I lived and what I've been up to. Nothing overtly threatening, just an air of "weirdness."
These past couple weeks have been a difficult time for the Church with some very inflammatory assertions being leveled at the Church, by yet another best-selling author, biographer to the stars, Andrew Morton. While some of Morton's claims seem a bit outlandish, including one suggesting Tom and Katie Cruise's daughter Suri is the product of some creepy insemination process using L.Ron Hubbard's frozen sperm, to a secret COS mission to take over Germany, the media itself seems to be in agreement on one thing: The Church of Scientology isn't exactly what you'd call "kosher."
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