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Monday, October 26th, 2009
Get out the Orville Redenbacher's...
Monday, October 26th, 2009 05:28 pm.
...we've got some fun going on!
Famous screenwriter Paul Haggis (Million Dollar Baby and Crash, among others) has left Scientology. Publicly. VERY publicly.
After 35 years, Haggis has finally cottoned to the fact that Hubbard's Scam is a nasty, power-hungry organization that doesn't care at all about the things it claims to care about. What took him so long, you ask? Well, you know how cults are.
More importantly, what straw was it that finally broke that particular camel's back? To his credit, Paul decided he'd finally had it up to here when the "Church" backed Proposition 8, the hateful anti-gay initiative that stripped California's gay population of its right to marry, even though the right had been granted by our Supreme Court. That was just too much for him, and he quit.
But it's the WAY he quit that's so much fun. He decided bowing out wasn't enough, so he sent a letter to one of the head honchos, a letter which has now gone viral all over the intertubes. And what a letter it is:
Haggis to Hubbard: You all are mean and I'M GOING HOME!!
( Text for the link-phobic )
WOW. I am SO loving this. As I've mentioned before, for most of my life I've lived within a couple of block of the Scientology headquarters, a building that reminds me of nothing so much as the Overlook Hotel from Stephen King's The Shining. (It was an old hospital from the 20's before Hubbard bought it, and now it's topped by a supremely creepy blue neon sign screaming SCIENTOLOGY. At night it can freeze your blood, thus the Overlook associations in my mind.) The recent downhill barreling of this mind-sucking cult makes me nothing but happy, happy, happy.
The story is also over at HuffPo. (Of course the "Church" is denying everything.)
AwardsDaily has it, as well as MovieLine.
It's taking off like a rocket. Laissez les bon temps roulez!
ETA: Brilliant comment over at MovieLine posted under the handle "Tommy Davis" (Davis is the head honcho who's become famous for storming out of interviews when asked about the whackier aspects of L.Ronology)...
So called screenwriter and director Paul Haggis's claims about the Church of Scientology are absolutely ridiculous. They are so offensive as to be not worth responding to. In fact, I am not responding to them, right now. The insinuation that the Church of Scientology would ever use private information to smear it's critics is offensive and vulgar. Why would we need to smear them when they are obviously child molesters? This is a man who, I have it on good authority, poos in his pants. Is that someone we should take seriously? While he is off raping grandma's the CoS is saving lives and ensuring human rights. I once caught a fish so big that Aerosmith asked me to hang out backstage with them, and the suggestion that I did not is profoundly and inescapably homosexual.
...we've got some fun going on!
Famous screenwriter Paul Haggis (Million Dollar Baby and Crash, among others) has left Scientology. Publicly. VERY publicly.
After 35 years, Haggis has finally cottoned to the fact that Hubbard's Scam is a nasty, power-hungry organization that doesn't care at all about the things it claims to care about. What took him so long, you ask? Well, you know how cults are.
More importantly, what straw was it that finally broke that particular camel's back? To his credit, Paul decided he'd finally had it up to here when the "Church" backed Proposition 8, the hateful anti-gay initiative that stripped California's gay population of its right to marry, even though the right had been granted by our Supreme Court. That was just too much for him, and he quit.
But it's the WAY he quit that's so much fun. He decided bowing out wasn't enough, so he sent a letter to one of the head honchos, a letter which has now gone viral all over the intertubes. And what a letter it is:
Haggis to Hubbard: You all are mean and I'M GOING HOME!!
( Text for the link-phobic )
WOW. I am SO loving this. As I've mentioned before, for most of my life I've lived within a couple of block of the Scientology headquarters, a building that reminds me of nothing so much as the Overlook Hotel from Stephen King's The Shining. (It was an old hospital from the 20's before Hubbard bought it, and now it's topped by a supremely creepy blue neon sign screaming SCIENTOLOGY. At night it can freeze your blood, thus the Overlook associations in my mind.) The recent downhill barreling of this mind-sucking cult makes me nothing but happy, happy, happy.
The story is also over at HuffPo. (Of course the "Church" is denying everything.)
AwardsDaily has it, as well as MovieLine.
It's taking off like a rocket. Laissez les bon temps roulez!
ETA: Brilliant comment over at MovieLine posted under the handle "Tommy Davis" (Davis is the head honcho who's become famous for storming out of interviews when asked about the whackier aspects of L.Ronology)...
So called screenwriter and director Paul Haggis's claims about the Church of Scientology are absolutely ridiculous. They are so offensive as to be not worth responding to. In fact, I am not responding to them, right now. The insinuation that the Church of Scientology would ever use private information to smear it's critics is offensive and vulgar. Why would we need to smear them when they are obviously child molesters? This is a man who, I have it on good authority, poos in his pants. Is that someone we should take seriously? While he is off raping grandma's the CoS is saving lives and ensuring human rights. I once caught a fish so big that Aerosmith asked me to hang out backstage with them, and the suggestion that I did not is profoundly and inescapably homosexual.