Armistead Maupin, unabashedly gay author of the Tales of the City books, said the following about Scientology - and one of its more famous practitioners - at a book-signing in London:
...of course the Church of Scientology comes in very handy. It's the biggest ex gay movement in America. They catch you when you're young and confused, tell you they'll look after you, even provide you with a wife and child... Then of course you have to do what they call an audit, where you confess everything you've ever done into a tape recorder, so they've got the tapes. So once you're famous and successful you have to go along with all their nonsense about people falling into volcanoes ... then you play a woman in a movie musical, a part created by a drag queen and written by a gay man...
Yes Armistid. And how marvelous for all these guilty closeted homos that Scientology also provides lots of ready-made explanations for the icky feelings they can't deal with. Bad thetans and all the rest of it. Just like Christianity, where "immoral" acts can be explained away as the work of Satan. Ah religion - where would all the self-hating secret fags be without you?
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