It sure is, but hey, who cares, we are having a little fun at the scientologists expense, which I am sure they will bill us for, those money grubbing bastards.
And hey, if you believe in your religion then let no one tell you differently. You might be right and they might be wrong, we don't know till we are dead, then we can't tell anyone.

And hey, can I get a frequent sacrifice discount on this one, it's like my fourth this week.

HAHAHAHAHA

(Google "Clearwater FL Scientology" sometime.)

It's not really surprising that the bill's made it this far in spite of clam interference -- they may be rich and litigious, but who wants to be known come election time as the guy who wants to let high schoolers kill themselves?

:O_o: THEY ARE EVERYWHERE!!! :O_o:

...I guess I was right to think that there were no scientoligists on this forum. You guys are waaay too smart to believe in that. In retrospect I should have bashed Issac Hayes more :p.

Scientology is just one of those...phenoms that just sounds horrible no matter what light it's in.

I read a pretty detailed report on Scientology in Rolling Stone. Very unbiased, it interviewed a pretty wide spectrum of people (teenage members, adult members, powerful members, former members of all ages, outsiders, what have you), and didn't twist words or situations to demonize the procedings, but still, when you have to keep bringing up the facts that the founder was almost always stuffed to the gilgats with meth and other mind-altering substances, that they started a 'Recruitment Program' in the 50s solely to attract famous people to 'disseminate' the message (and, in addition to drafting them, giving them the advance track through the 'strict' processes usually involved), and the like, the subject still comes out looking like shit.

The best part was the next issue, where you had people responding to the article in the letters section. I believe Kirstie Alley wrote in and simply said that she thought the reporter had rat-like eyes. Classy stuff.

I don't concern myself with Scientology. I'm only pissed off because they are a contributing factor to the heavy censorship that's befalling South Park, one of my favorite shows.

Well, not so much Scientology as Comedy Central is a bunchof pussy bleeding hearts who can't take a little mouthing off or criticism, or sure, showing Jesus and Bush litteraly shit on eachother was fine, but Allah forbid we should show an image of Mohamad! (I foundout that was real..)

Scientology was the reason they won't show the Tom Cruise coming out of the closet episode anymore, they won't release it on dvd either, had I known this: I would've video taped it then sold bootleg copies.

So bassicaly unless your Muslim or Scientologist the America media doesn't give a damn about your feelings and you got to bite the bullet, but if you are, they'll lick your boots. It pisses me off moreso because of the blatant choosing and picking ceartain ones, hot or cold, pick something and friggin' stick to it.

Well, the Tom Cruise episode, I've heard NOTHING about it not being included on Season 9 DVD set. Plus, clips from the episode are still up on Comedy Central's webpage for South Park. It was pulled from TV stations in multiple countries not because of Scientology, but because Tom Cruise is a whiny bitch and had Paramount in a bit of a bind, due to Mission Impossible: III. There's no reason for it to not be released on a DVD set, one trhat's not even been announced yet, no less.

Unless you can provide a solid source on it. And I don't think there is one, I was reading pretty much every fairly recent news article linked off of treyparker.com

Hell, who wants to be known as the guy who caved to the scientologists?

I AM a SCIENTOLOGIST

IM RUNNING BACK TO MY SEA ORG COMMANDER AND REPORTING U ALL AS SUPPRESSIVE PERSONS

ALL HAIL L RON CUPBOARD

True, especially when you consider that apparently only 8% of Americans have a positive view of Scientology. Which is a little surprising, actually -- I would have thought that more people would at least sympathize with their views on psychiatric medicine enough to feel all right about them, never mind Battlefield Earth.

I understand that there are some unofficial offshoots of Scientology that are less about the mad ducats and abuse of the legal system and more about the core philosophies, run by fairly ordinary people who just happen to believe that vitamins can cure everything -- and hey, whatever works for them, y'know? I feel for them, being myself a fairly ordinary member of a faith whose louder, more assholish participants make it and the rest of us look ridonkulous by association, especially when they try to enforce their particular dogmas by law.