Writer/Director Paul Haggis has quit the Church of Scientology in protest against what he perceives as the cult's tacit support of California's Prop 8. Haggis said in a letter to Scientology stooge Tommy Davis:As you know, 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. Their public sponsorship of Proposition 8, a hate-filled legislation that succeeded in taking away the civil rights of gay and lesbian citizens of California – rights that were granted them by the Supreme Court of our state – shames us.
I called and wrote and implored you, as the official spokesman of the church, to condemn their actions. I told you I could not, in good conscience, be a member of an organization where gay-bashing was tolerated.
In that first conversation, back at the end of October of last year, you told me you were horrified, that you would get to the bottom of it and “heads would roll.” You promised action. Ten months passed. No action was forthcoming. The best you offered was a weak and carefully worded press release, which praised the church’s human rights record and took no responsibility. Even that, you decided not to publish.
The church’s refusal to denounce the actions of these bigots, hypocrites and homophobes is cowardly. I can think of no other word. Silence is consent, Tommy. I refuse to consent.
Haggis is also reportedly angry at the CoS for forcing his wife to break off contact with her Scientologist parents because they violated some dopey church rule. I always find it amusing when these Scientologisy drones all of a sudden realize that their church is built upon bigotry and thuggish closed-mindedness and begin denouncing it. They didn't seem to mind when it was helping them with their careers.
At some point, some of these Hollywood big-brains will realize that all religions are inherently idiotic, even the hip ones like Kabbalah and Buddhism. Then maybe they'll figure out that politics is a crock too. Or perhaps they'll just go on being gullible morons.
